WE'VE all had one of those booze-filled nights where things have got a bit out of hand.
But for one drunken reveller, her night - quite literally - ruined her fingers.
The unnamed Australian woman suffered severe frostbite after falling asleep outside a Canadian bar in the middle of winter.
The brunette shared photographs of her painful injuries on imgur, admitting that she was "f****** stupid".
The incident took place at Prince Albert in Saskatchewan, Canada, in December.
The woman, who moved to Canada four years ago, says she was "blackout drunk" when she lost her friends.
She was last seen at a bar about 2.30am.
She told her friends she was going to have a cigarette before vanishing into the minus 30 degree Celsius temperatures without her jacket and gloves.
She was found outside a nursing home curled in a ball trying to sleep three hours later and her fingers were already notably purple.
"It was 5.45am when I was found. At 6.30 a nurse told me that best case scenario I keep my fingers... worst case I lose my hands," she said.
The woman was treated in hospital over several days.
Her specialist Dr Randall Friesen - which she claims is a pun for Dr Freezin - told her her fingers would blister and swell before they could be popped a few days later.
She describes the pain and pressure at this point as "unbearable".
"I was taking opiates the whole time... frostbite recovery is pretty well known for its pain," she said.
"My next visit with Doc Freezin he was wearing an apron and a face mask with a plastic shield over his head.
"With my hand over a metal tray, he cut my blisters with a scalpel. Puss went everywhere. I think I even got the hospital curtains."
She said after a few minutes her finger deflated and she was left with raw skin.
Her hands are in the process of healing and she can use them again, but her specialist is still concerned about her left pinky and right middle fingertip.
"I won't find out until June. If I lose them I want to make a sweet, custom made prosthetic," she said.
We doubt she'll be getting drunk for a while.
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