In the summer of 2000 , O'Donnell suffered a staph infection after she accidentally cut the middle finger of her left hand with a knife while cutting a price tag off a fishing pole . The infection incapacitated her for weeks , and nearly resulted in doctors amputating her hand . She later quipped that George W. Bush was to blame for the infection , saying that she was preparing to go on a fishing trip at the time in order to avoid seeing Bush on television during the then-ongoing 2000 Republican National Convention . O'Donnell has acknowledged her struggles with recurrent , major depressive episodes during the fall and winter months consistent with seasonal affective disorder
2000 Republican National Convention
2000 Republican National Convention
Rosie O'Donnell