An Australian woman who went to Canada trying on a new life there got more than fun memories and photos to show later on in her lifetime. A memory sure to be distinct that she could surely share on to family and friends was how she almost lost her hands to Canada’s unforgiving winter cold.

Emma Quirk, who goes by the name TheBassistsMuse on Imgur, was out with new found friends for a drink in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan one night in December. She came from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, according to Mashable.

Australians are known for their binge drinking, but in her own words, Quirk got “way too wastey-pants” on that night. “I was blackout drunk by midnight, with no phone, no money and no idea where I was and I couldn't find my way home.”

Despite her drunken state, she still managed to take a groupie shot with her new friends. As her story continued, it was learned she even told them that she would just go outside for a cigarette. But without her jacket and mitts because she had left them in the bar. In her narration, Quirk said it was at 2:30 in the morning that she was last seen by her friends.

Turns out that while outside for a cigarette, the young Australian passed out in Canada’s -30 degrees Celsius weather. She was found curled up outside a nursing home, at 5:45 am. She was immediately taken to the hospital. Three hours had passed. She sure is still lucky to have survived that weather, but her fingers bore the brunt of the freezing cold.

“At 6:30 a nurse told me that best case scenario I keep my fingers. Worst case, I lose my hands,” Emma wrote on her Imgur account. "High off my tits on morphine, still pretty drunk and alone in another country getting that nice little tidbit of information was pretty fucking terrifying," Quirk added.

But to lighten her situation, she named her doctor "Dr Freezin'." The real name actually is Dr Randy Friesen. The doctor told her to expect her fingers to blister and puff and that he would pop them up in a few days. And she did wait, but not without pain. "The weight was immediately palpable. My fingers became a quarter of the weight.” When Dr Freezin’ had finally cut her blisters with a scalpel, “it was a huge relief, akin to a damn good cuppa tea.”

But Quirk’s fingers aren’t totally off the hook yet. She’s been advised to come back in June for a follow-up check-up on her left pinky and right middle fingertip which she hopes she gets to keep. But “if I lose them I wanna make a sweet custom made prosthetic. Just like Margot Tennenbaum in The Royal Tennebaums. Fuck yeah.”

Australian Quirk, who has been living in Canada for four years, ended her narration on four sticking points, “The moral of the story is: 1) don't go full retard 2) try not to get blackout drunk. 3) but if you do, know how to get home. 4) find the pun in every situation.”

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