Woman Hears ‘Crunch’ After Stepping on Clothes Left on the Floor. She’s Shocked at What She Sees Next

Madison Martin was in her apartment, walking to the bathroom when she stepped on the pair of jeans she’d worn the night before and left on the floor. Instantly, she heard a crunch.

At first, the St. Petersburg, Fla., local didn’t think much of it and continued making her way to the bathroom. But as she sat down, she noticed that something was off — her jeans were attached to her foot.

“I wondered to myself, ‘What the…,’ ” Martin, 24, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Then I saw the giant hole in my foot and felt the pocket, only to find out there was a key in my foot. Immediately, I started to panic, sweat, get lightheaded and almost pass out.”

“My mind started racing,” she adds. “I called my friend in panic to come save me. He couldn’t believe what I was telling him. He lives 10 minutes away and said, ‘Okay, stay calm, I’ll be there in five.’ ”

While Martin waited for her friend George to arrive, despite being in immense pain with her jeans dangling from her foot, she knew she had to get dressed. She wrapped the jeans around her foot, hopped in pain, and managed to get clothes on. Once dressed, she cut the jeans pocket out as much as she could, but a portion of the pocket was still lodged in her foot, along with the key.

Afterward, she laid on the floor, waiting for her friend to arrive.

“I didn’t even try to remove it because I saw how deep the key was, and number one, I would’ve passed out if I removed it myself,” the bartender says. “Number two, I didn’t want to remove it and maybe hit a vein or nerve, or honestly, anything that could cause excessive bleeding, further damage … or bleed out and die.”

Eventually her friend arrived, and when he did, she says he told her she looked “completely yellow” and like she was going to pass out. He carried her to the car and drove her to the hospital. Once there, he ran in to get a wheelchair and wheeled her inside.

As soon she she rolled into the emergency room, she recalls how the whole staff was stunned.

“They put me in a room immediately, and everyone was in shock,” she says. “Every employee on the ER floor came to see this freak accident. At this point, I was in so much pain and freaking out, all I could do was laugh. Everyone couldn’t believe a key that thick and dull, along with the jean pocket, was able to lodge into my foot so perfectly.”

“It didn’t make sense, and no one could believe their eyes or begin to make it make sense,” she adds. “They injected lidocaine into the area and yanked it right out! I screamed and kept saying, ‘I need a tequila shot’ the whole time.”