Quisbeli's Finger

Feb 4^th

I want to thank Jessica Batzell for picking out the perfect pocketknife for me for Christmas.

Nick, Luzmila, Diana, Mama Chomba, and I were talking on the porch today before class when we heard Quisbeli fall and start to scream. We found Quisbeli lying next to a bike with her finger getting crushed between the gear and the chain. Diana and Luzmila tried to move the chain so she could slide her finger out, but it just twisted her finger worse. So Nick and I grabbed my pocketknife and started to use the wire cutters to cut the chain off the bike. After five excruciating minutes of Quisbeli screaming and crying, and Nick and I taking turns with the pocketknife, we were able to cut through both side of the chain.

Quisbeli’s finger looked like it had been crushed and severed when we finally removed it from the bike, but after cleaning it off we realized it looked a lot worse than it actually was. The bones haven’t fully developed in her fingers, so luckily it was just the flesh that got crushed in the chain. The event scared everyone, but it could have been a lot worse. By the evening her finger was back to normal.

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