A week and a half ago it was our turn to make dinner for the house. I get bored making the same thing over and over, so I thought I'd try these pretty things.
Thanks Pinterest for easy dinner recipes. The kind that get deadly.
To make your potatoes super thin like that you have to use a mandolin (no, not the musical instrument). If you aren't acquainted with the nasty kitchen tool, it's sort of like a cheese grater but for vegetables and fruit. I was using the single blade slicer to wow all our friends coming over for dinner with my very thin and crispy potatoes.
I hadn't ever used one before and was really excited about how efficiently it was working. I was so excited, in fact, that I started using it at a pretty fast rate. And just as Cindy (our roommate) yelled from across the room, "Be careful!" I lost the top of my middle finger and a slice out of my thumb.
We had pictures of that too but I haven't even had the stomach to look at them yet.
What ensued was a night of me fainting multiple times (and Jimmy almost fainting too), calls to a friend in med school and our moms to determine whether or not to go to the ER, and lots and lots of bandages. I couldn't look at it for almost a week because I was so queasy.
We didn't end up at the hospital because there wasn't much they could stitch, and since then I've been sporting a rather attractive white gauze bandage on my middle finger. It'll probably be wrapped up for quite a while and we're all waiting in suspense to see if fingers grow back rounded or if I'll have a flat spot there forever.
And you can't even imagine how important your middle finger is until you can't use it at all.
Life lessons.
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