The chainsaw rescue: the belt tourniquet and the drive that saved a life

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texture · UNDATED (Joelle's childhood/youth, Kentucky)

When: UNDATED (a home-Kentucky memory; told to Gately 11 Nov YDAU)
What: Trading worst-things-seen with Gately, Joelle tells of a man who cut his hand off with a chainsaw "cutting back brush back of the Cumberland" while she was fishing with her Daddy. Her Daddy tourniqueted the stump with his belt and drove the man to the hospital in his car — "like to saved his life. He'd had some training. He could save lives like that." The one competence-under-pressure datum in his record, and it is Joelle's telling, in her home accent's register.