stitches out tonight

[Josephine]

I know y'all love my little stories - and this is a very little story! I took my own stitches out tonight - all two of them!

To prepare, I dug out my teeny stitch scissors and equally teeny forceps and sterilized them in the oven. Didn't notice the pizza tray I put them on had a little oil on it from a previous (forgotten) use but well, they could do with some lubrication! It would be sterile, anyway! :hehe: I also pulled out my x5 magnifying glasses to make sure I could see what I was doing and arranged a spot lamp on the operation site. Scrubbed up, of course!

Then I cleaned the area with a sterile wipe and took the stitches out! Was fine - didn't hurt at all.

Afterwards I sprayed it with a little 'plastic skin'.

Job done!

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[BigRed]

I hate having stitches out. I can't believe you did it yourself.

 

[tom67]

Outstanding Jo, Sounds like It took longer to prep. Than the whole procedure took
Your GOOD!! It doesn't hurt at all??

 

[abunnybabe]

JO KILLS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Texas]

Wow Jo i can see you taking others out but your own ouch........just doing that to yourself...lol.....but great saves a trip right......your a special lady...............

 

[mtngal67]

I took my dog's stitches out once. She didn't say if it hurt or not haha!
By the way... I'm not planning on removing my own staples!
Gale

 

[Jamie]

Jo....you are amazing. Next thing you'll be doing your own surgery!!!

 

[calling_all_angels]

Jo,
I plan on taking mine out next Sunday. That will be
10 days. Can I take them out at 7 days??? They are just little stitches 3 of them that is all. How long did you have to keep yours in??? I took the last ones out after 6 days but was told that was to soon. Is that true???

 

[JudyS]

Calling why are you taking your own out.
judy

 

[Josephine]

I left mine in 14 days as that was the surgeon's request. I am a good girl mostly!

And no, it didn't hurt a bit. But then, I had the proper instruments to remove them.

You need to be very careful to have sterile instruments, calling, and though that sign was intended mostly as a giggle, it is correct. It's easy to cause an infection from unsterile stitch removal.

 

[Dawnie]

WTG Jo, :yrk:

 

[backbay38]

Boy.Jo -- you've got guts. But as others have noted -- you DO know what to do a nurse --- and just how much (and how) to sterilize the scissors etc. I banged up my arm diving into a volcanic pool in Iceland some years back (like an idot) and the wonderful doc who stitched me up apologized all over the place because I'd have to take out my own stitches at home in the US. (socialized medicine; he dind't know how much to charge me so he didn't charge me anything!) My husband and I took out the stiches together when the time came and probably didn't even sterilized the nail scissors adequately. But I lived. And hope I never have to do anything like that again!!!
Stephani

 

[Clunker]

Aww heck,,I have seen cowboy movies where them guys took bullets out with a knife.

Stitches with a tweezers,,,pffffffffft,,
thats nothing,,,
well unless there mine. ouch
I need to cowboy up,,lol

 

[abunnybabe]

Mark, I always picture you as some sort of cowboy....a clunking one! Are you bowlegged?

 

[Clunker]

Mark, I always picture you as some sort of cowboy....a clunking one! Are you bowlegged?

Hey lil bunnie
,a cowboy??
Ya thinking I got a big gun or what???

And bowlegged? Only if I try and straddle a keg of beer,,but since this knee surgery I am trying to quit that.

Pictured me as a cowboy,,,lol,,,now that did make me laugh out loud for real.

 

[abunnybabe]

Please don't let the keg go flat, I haven't had my surgery yet and I could really use it! Thanks Cowboy! :hehe:

 

[Josephine]

I once worked in a little cottage hospital that had what was passed off as an emergency room! It was in Worcestershire, the Vale of Evesham where all the best fruit is grown. We had a lot of itinerant workers (aka gypsies!) would come at harvest and pick fruit. One young chap cut his hand and I had to put about 4 stitches in it. Knowing he was a traveller, I gave him a letter about what had been done and why and told him to take it to the nearest hospital in one week to get his stitches taken out.

THREE MONTHS later, he turned up and gave me the letter and said he'd come to have his stitches out! AND he still had the original dressing on! :euw: When I looked at the wound, the stitch holes had healed around the stitches like an ear ring in a pierced ear! Often wondered what happened to him thereafter - did the holes ever heal up, or what?

 

[Clunker]

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THREE MONTHS later, he turned up and gave me the letter and said he'd come to have his stitches out! AND he still had the original dressing on!

Jo I think the young man just liked you holding his hand. And as far as wondering if his hand healed up,
,I am sure it did. well kind of sure,well not totally sure,well not to sure at all.

Or maybe his hand just fell off,,,don't know.

Jo if I needed stitches I would want you to be the one holding my hand also,,,there ,did I redeem myself??:hehe:


Momma hen,I love your stories,I really do:thmb:

 

[beth1954]

Clunker, I am from Iowa, and I don't remember seeing any real cowboys there!!
Now I live in Texas, and that's a whole other story!

:hehe:

 

[Josephine]

Mark - you realise you're just encouraging me, don't you? If you're not careful I shall tell you the one about the ball point pen! :evil: :hehe: