Australian moves to Canada and suffers horrific frostbite after passing out drunk

WARNING:::: PEOPLE WHO VISIT OR MOVE TO CANADA NEED TO UNDERSTAND YOU CANNOT FALL ASLEEP OUTSIDE IN THE WINTER TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!


All Emma Quirk wanted to do was make friends and settle into Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Instead, the Australian woman will be lucky be if she doesn’t lose a finger after suffering severe frostbite.

“You’d think for someone surviving Nopeland (the Australian wild) for 20 years, that the country of ‘sorry’ and maple syrup would do me some (expletive) wonders, but instead it kicked my ass,” she wrote on her blog.

In Canada, Emma Quirk wrote, she had got blackout drunk by midnight, with no phone, no money and no idea where she was or how to get home.
She was last seen at 2:30 a.m. before being found, curled up outside and trying to sleep, just over three hours later.

She said she feels like a pure idiot.

She had moderate hypothermia and purple, frostbitten fingers. A nurse told her that in a worst-case scenario, she’d lose her hands.

Hearing that information, while still drunk and high on morphine, was “terrifying.”

Over the next few days, she was taken care of by “insanely cool nurses and doctors,” she said.

“Everyone wanted to check out my sweet blisters and find out how long an Aussie can withstand the cold before almost dying.”

Her hands are healing and she can now use them again. She may still lose her left pinky finger and right middle fingertip, but won’t know until June.

'She said the funny part of the story is the doctor who popped her blisters is named Dr. Randy Friesen — or, as she likes to think of him, Dr. Freezin’.

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[link to www.msn.com]