Stitches

[Freddie]

Being on warfarin, should these pretty blue stitches have to stay in longer?
It will be a week on Saturday and its still very painfull. The doc said they could come out on Friday or Saturday..........but........
P.S.
Nancy, you were right about the pain lasting 3 days

 

[Bina]

Hey, the cut is looking good! The stitches will come out on Saturday, don't worry.
Are you left handed?

 

[Freddie]

No I'm not left handed...or else I wouldn't be able to type

 

[Freddie]

Also, this question is from my SO, who.....so badly wants to take them out for me.
Lord Help Me.

 

[Bina]

It looks like you cut your right hand, is your pic backwards?

 

[Freddie]

Oh My Gosh, your right Bina. It does look like its my right hand, but it isn't. I stood behind my laptop while the kid pushed the button on the computer.

 

[Guest]

Freddie, I had my stitches taken out at 9 days. The threads moved easily so all the tech had to do was snip and yank with tweezers. The only one that hurt when he pulled it out was the one closest to the fingernail, I cut it at an angle, starting at the nail going around the fat pad.

 

[hall]

I know everyone is different but if I have stitches, they take them out a couple of days earlier than normal. I heal very fast. (I certainly am not complaining). That is just me. Just a thought. Good luck.

 

[Freddie]

Okay now I really do feel like a wimp.
And I cried blue murder when I cut mine.
Louise I didn't know you cut your finger. Please don't say that you were getting supper ready.
First you, then me and Mary too. We make quite the bunch.
What was the doctors reasoning for waiting 9 days?

 

[hall]

To heal and close the cut. Are the stitches pulling?

 

[Ross]

Don't rush it. Well you can if you want it to start bleeding again. It's got to have time to heal. Plus taking them out prematurely is risking infection.

 

[zipper2]

Freddie...how come you never got dissolvable stitches?
or you didn't have a choice?Mind you i guess depends
how deep the laceration too.Years go i was canning
peaches and pears and whipped the knife across the
sugar bag....cut my palm inside of hand,quickly got a towel
phoned dear hub and i could feel the pain and couldn't look
i got stitches but kept hubby on his cell till he drove home
and woulnot uncover it till i got to emerg.I knew it was bad
and it was,got 6 stitches,from a very sharp knife,and then
my head from fish hook and my butt.........hopefully no more
scars like them for awhilethey all hurt and can imagine
your finger still is sore.......Leave the thread in yet
The bloods the part makes me weak to the part of passing
out with a fall and more blood and stitches(LOL)

zipper2 (DEB)

 

[Freddie]

To heal and close the cut. Are the stitches pulling?

No, the stitches don't seem to be pulling. Maybe I should wait till Monday?

Zipper, the doctor never asked me if I wanted dissolvable stitches or not. He just did it. Remember, this was done at a MediClinic and not with my regular Doctor.

 

[Bina]

Fred, after OHS they take out the staples after 7-9 days.....you should be fine to remove the stitches on Saturday.

 

[Freddie]

Guess I better get a tall glass and the Brandy ready
I'm such a wimp

 

[netmiff]

if you don't want SO to do it, tell him it has to wait until Monday! I personally would want it done in a doctor's office or clinic, with clean instruments, sharp scissors and qualified medical personnel close by in case I fainted or screamed
(I am wimpier than you are na na na na na naah)




Louise, Mary, Freddie, that's three, even with my math skills - the rest of us are safe - LET'S GET THOSE KNIVES OUT AND WE CAN FIX POOR ROSS'S TEETH !!!!!!

 

[Mary]

Mine looks good, Freddie.
We're looking at Sunday or Monday.

 

[Guest]

Louise I didn't know you cut your finger. Please don't say that you were getting supper ready. What was the doctors reasoning for waiting 9 days?

I cut, um, er, chopped it with the electric hedge trimmers. I was reaching for the cut hedges before I lowered the trimmer enough while it was powering down. I knew right away what I did. Scared the beegeeses outta me, I was home alone, ran into the house and wrapped a towel around it and called my daughter to take me to the ER. When we got there, I told her I would look one more time before we go in and if it didn't look bad, we'd go back home. No sooner I loosened the towel, it bled like water out of a faucet. My ER doc gave me vicodin for the pain, when all of the local anesthesia wore off, I needed it.

This happened on a Sunday morning, I guess divine intervention was telling me "See, if you had your butt in church where it belongs, this wouldn't have happened." I say "If I had worn my garden gloves like I usually do, this may not have happened." I called my husband, it was his drill weekend, the first words I said to him were "Don't yell at me." and then I told him what happened.

The ER doc said to come back in 10 days to have stitches taken out, maybe because it was pretty deep, and coumadin, he put a turniquet at the base of the finger so that he could clean it and stitch without bleeding. After stitches, the tech wrapped it in gauze where my finger looked like a hotdog. I had a tetanus shot in '06 so I didn't have to have one of those. I figured the following Monday (9 days)was good enough, they moved freely, and were itchy.