Fingers which swell up too quickly will often need to have rings cut off as a last resort. Leading up to this unfortunate event, people try everything from oil, ice, soap, grease, you names it. Did you know there’s an easy technique involving nothing but a slim shoe lace or string?
Start by wrapping up the finger with the string as shown in this video – and this will save both the ring and a potential trip to the emergency room.
The woman in the video learned the method during pregnancy, as all her fingers swelled up significantly. Just prior to going to the emergency room to get her ring cut, something she says she would have really would have regretted later on, a friend, who happened to be an emergency room nurse came just in time and helped save the woman’s ring.
Watch this unique technique, you never know when you or a friend will need it:
