Chelsey Brown
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Another motivation for 2019 about a woman losing her finger?
First off, let's be glad we are men on the Chaos, so we don't have to
worry about this happening to us. But let's try to learn from this
person. Once again, like Claire Clark (http://detroitchaos.zpinaddict.com/dc2019/2019m1.htm),
this woman is selfless and brave. Not complaining but trying to
make sure it does not happen to others. But if that is
all I wanted us to learn, she would have been combined with Claire.
Let's take this a step farther. In my mind, this woman is
demonstrating how to BE A GOOD SPORT. She is taking it
like a man. No complaints. Not afraid to go back to the
place where it happened. You can even watch the video here
with the original article:
https://usat.ly/2yHh8Ae
On the other hand, Chelsea is not thinking logically either. So
we can also learn to think logically. She thinks she is
logical, but she is not. Look at her last quote when talking about
the ring: "I'm so scared to wear this now," she said. "I'm
thinking about putting it on a necklace." Now at first this
might seem logical or even smart. After all, if she does not
put the ring on her finger, she cannot get another finger ripped off.
On the other hand, now she wants to put it on a necklace around her
head. So, if a similar thing happened it would rip her head off.
This seems worse to me than losing another finger. I would say
either don't wear rings at all, or wear it on a finger you don't use
very often.
As a Chaos hockey player, we should all be good sports. If the
ref calls a penalty, skate to the box. Don't snivel and whine
(better not to take the penalty of course). If we lose,
which is not likely, do not complain. Get in that handshake
line and say "Good Game". Don't punch someone in the stomach.
That would be low class. Also, think logically. Don't drink
urine, don't believe the earth is flat, don't believe NASA faked the
moon landings. Think ... Captain Chaos put you on the
team because you can play and think. Let's all think
logically .... pass the puck to Pete and we will definitely take home
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — It was supposed to be a sweet moment, a milestone
in 3-year-old Carson Brown's life.
Instead, a Little League Tee Ball game on Sept. 6 turned into a moment
that would change Chelsey Brown's life forever. And not for the better.
It was her first time at St. Bethlehem Civitan Park, and as she cheered
on the little "Lake Monsters," her right hand gripped the top rail of
the fence around the stands where she was sitting.
As she went to get down, the unthinkable happened.
"When I hopped down, my wedding ring got caught on this little piece of
metal sticking out here, so when I hopped down my finger did not come
with me," she said. "It was hanging up there ... I looked down and it
was just gone."
A family friend grabbed Brown's finger from the fence, and her husband
raced her to nearby Tennova Healthcare, where she was put on a
LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Nashville.
Because of damage to the tendon, blood vessels and nerves, a hand
specialist told her there was no way to reconnect her finger, and they
had to amputate most of it.
With the amount of blood she saw, she worried at first that she would
bleed out and die, so even when she lost her finger, she felt blessed
that it wasn't worse.
She's still having to go through physical therapy and learning to deal
with the loss. As a bank teller, she was used to using all 10 fingers
and now has only nine.
"I just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else," Brown said. "It's
something so innocent, you'd never expect something like that to
happen."
Montgomery County spokesman Michelle Newell said Brown called county
Parks and Recreation and was told to call a county risk manager but
never did. The fences have been examined and are up to code and
standards, Newell said.
Now that Brown's finger is healing, she covers her stump with a
Band-Aid. Her ring has been repaired and resized to wear on her right
hand, but it still makes her nervous.
"I'm so scared to wear this now," she said. "I'm thinking about putting
it on a necklace."
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