Wedding ring woes

Jan 26, 2014

So in December my diamond fell out of my engagement ring at work. I looked everywhere but it was long gone... probably fell down a drain or something. I thought well... not the end of the world, we have insurance so they should cover it. So I tried to get my ring off to take it to the jewelers, but it won't come off because I've gained at least 20 pounds since getting married 2 years ago, and even then it was tight. I tried everything- soap and water, butter, Windex (some jewelers swear by it), drinking tons of water so I wasn't as bloated, nothing worked. I would get the ring about halfway off, but no more. By that point my finger was incredibly swollen from trying to get the ring off, so my only option was to get it cut off. So I went to an urgent care and they cut it off in about 3 minutes, and they sent me home with my poor mangled ring in a container reserved for urine samples (that's all they had to put the ring in.) Since then, life has been crazy and my husband and I are sort of procrastinators, so the ring sat on our bookshelf in a urine sample cup until today when I finally got tired of looking at it, so we finally decided to take it to the jeweler.

Well, I was kind of worried that they would laugh in my face and send me away, because to keep the insurance you have to go in every 6 months to have the ring inspected and cleaned. We have done that once since we have been engaged. So I didn't think it was even worth it to try, but my husband said we should at least see if they can do anything. Well, we dug out the paperwork for the ring, and lo and behold, it says right there MUST GET RING INSPECTED EVERY 6 MONTHS OR THE INSURANCE IS VOID. Well, ok that sucks, So we just decided that we will buy a new wedding/anniversary band. We figure we can get a pretty plain one for less than $200. I don't care if it has diamonds on it, I just want something to wear on my finger.

So we decide to go to JC Penney because that is where we bought my husband's band for a very good price, but before we shop for a ring we need to get my finger sized. I guessed that it was about a 10 now, and I was correct. The engagement ring was an 8.5, no WONDER it wouldn't come off! So we tell the saleswoman we just want a plain wedding band, so she shows us some and I try one on and it fits pretty well. Then I look at the case and it is a men's ring. Turns out they don't really make women's rings in a size that big. I don't know why that came as a shock to me, but it did. So now we have decided that we are just going to look for a cheap ring for me to wear for now until I lose weight. What's the point of buying an expensive ring now anyways?

So now I am on my quest to find a cheap ring made for someone with fat fingers.

When I got home, I started cursing myself for letting the insurance expire like that. How hard is it to go to the ring store twice a year to get it cleaned? Then I realized, when it was time for me to go in Feb. 2012, I was embarrassed to go because I couldn't get my ring off my finger. I kept telling myself to just wait a few more months and then I will have lost enough weight to get the ring off. Well, look how well that worked out. It just kept getting worse, and I kept telling myself "I just need a few more months and this ring will come off...."

Oh well. Lesson learned. I'm pretty sure I would have had to take the ring off for surgery anyway since they said no jewelry.

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