Amputating your own finger: Big no no!

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Consider this our public service announcement for the week.  My friend and partner in all things related to the garden, Hellen Polk, came very close to amputating her finger while trying slice corn off the cob.

It was a kitchen disaster.

Not only did she lose the corn, she lost the tip of her finger.  The doctor told her it was “a very clean amputation,” and she almost passed out just hearing those words.

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