STEP 5 Wrap dental floss tightly around your finger starting just above the ring. Lubricate the floss and then slip the ring off over the compressed knuckle.
He has a pair of clippers and tells me he's going to have to cut the ring off the third finger of my right hand—it's a wedding ring Tabby gave me in 1983, twelve years after we were actually married.
Some garbled version of this comes out, probably nothing Paul Fillebrown can actually understand, but he keeps nodding and smiling as he cuts that second, more expensive, wedding ring off my swollen right hand.