An Australian woman has revealed her horrific frostbite injuries after she fell asleep outside a bar in Canada for three hours in the middle of winter
She told her friends she was going to have a cigarette before vanishing into the minus 30 degree Celsius temperatures without her jacket and gloves.
She was found outside a nursing home curled in a ball trying to sleep three hours later and her fingers were already notably purple.
'It was 5.45am when I was found. At 6.30 a nurse told me that best case scenario I keep my fingers... worst case I lose my hands,' she said.
'The pain and pressure at this point was verging on unbearable. I was taking opiates the whole time... frostbite recovery is pretty well known for its pain,' she said.
'My next visit with Doc Freezin he was wearing an apron and a face mask with a plastic shield over his head.
The woman was treated in hospital over several days and was told her fingers would have to blister and swell before they could be popped
Her specialist Dr Randall Friesen - which she claims is a pun for Dr Freezin - told her her fingers would blister and swell before they could be popped a few days later
'With my hand over a metal tray, he cut my blisters with a scalpel. Puss went everywhere. I think I even got the hospital curtains.'
She said after a few minutes her finger deflated and she was left with raw skin.
Her hands are in the process of healing and she can use them again, but her specialist is still concerned about her left pinky and right middle fingertip.
'I won't find out until June. If I lose them I want to make a sweet, custom made prosthetic,' she said.
The woman says pus went everywhere when doctors eventually popped the huge blisters leaving her with mounds of extra skin
Her hands are in the process of healing and she can use them again, but her specialist is still concerned about her left pinky and right middle fingertip
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