Her Thumb by Mia Lowry

OK, so this is the story I was told regarding Suzie taking off Tonie/Mary's thumb.
I am hopine Suzie and Tonie will e-mail me with their versions of these events.


The first time she did it. Suzie was mowing the lawn with those old-fashioned push mowers. She was angry she had to do this chore. Tonie was playing with her toys on the lawn. Suzie asked, well, told her to move and she wouldn't. So, she ran over her toys and her thumb happened to get in the way. Her thumb was almost completely off.

They rushed her to the clinic and she almost died because of the anesthetic. I was told they gave her too much. Then another version I was told was that instead of giving her the antidote to bring her back they gave her another dose to put her to sleep. Mom knew it was taking too long and started to pray. She was OK.

However, the second time Suzie (same thumb too) cut off her thumb (not sure how much later this was from the first incident) Tonie was playing on the gate located on the front yard fence. Mom had told Suzie to close it and she was upset about it. Tonie was hanging on it playing and she would not get off. Suzie closed the gate and off went the finger again. This time Mom did not want to take her to the clinic out of fear this time she would die. What did she do? She made some homemade remedy for her thumb, wrapped it up and prayed fervently it would be fine. It worked because she still has her thumb today. Although it does not move like her other one, I am sure she is the only person I know who had the same thumb come off twice and only saw the doctors once.
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