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Post by acilf on Aug 21, 2008 0:11:09 GMT -5
my stitches never needed to be removed. They were disintegrating stitches or something like that.
anyone seen that Apocalypto movie? There was a lady in that that used the heads of ants as stitches for some gash on her son's leg. I wonder if that would work...anyone wanna volunteer?
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Post by Trey on Aug 21, 2008 0:19:32 GMT -5
when I got my stitches out, they were pulled from the side of my knee, and someone had to hold my leg down because it tickled so bad.
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Post by Clover on Aug 23, 2008 17:31:37 GMT -5
The last surgery I had on my hands, two or three years ago, was kind of a weird one, in which the skin healed over the stitches by accident (dunno how it happened), and the doctor wasn't available to take it out. I went to my GP and the nurse had a bit of a rough hand with it, so I left, went to the drug store, bought numbing cream and went home.
And then numbed my finger---and cut the thin healed-over layer with an exactoknife, and took the stitches out myself. Because I am fucking McGuiver.
But monday is coming soon and I. Am. Dreading. It.
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Post by espacefine on Aug 23, 2008 17:56:18 GMT -5
If the stitches aren't under your skin, just take em out yourself, dude. Don't waste your time going to the hospital for that. ;
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Post by misaki on Aug 23, 2008 22:01:28 GMT -5
The only time I had stitches, they were in my mouth, and I guess they kind of just came undone or something, because the doctor didn't need to cut them or anything; he just pulled them out.
Whatever you do to yourself, it simply CAN'T be as bad as that bit in Pan's Labyrinth with the guy and the knife and the stitches---argh, argh! *gags*
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Post by Clover on Aug 24, 2008 3:15:35 GMT -5
No, it's not as bad as that, though HAAAA now I know how he felt!
..I still don't empathize. He was a shit.
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Post by child-of-fae on Aug 24, 2008 13:14:45 GMT -5
i really only remember two of the times i had stiches.
the ones on my knee didn't hurt coming out, it was a tug and a strange feeling, like they hit a nerve, but not painful. but when they sewed my up they gave me 5-7 local anesthetic injections. i made my mom cover my eyes.
and then a few years before that, i was about 6 or seven i had to get stitches on my chin. it seemed like 22, but i think it was 18 at the most. those hurt like a bitch, because it wasn't like they sewed me up, the had these little metal pincher things. i got to keep them after they took them out. those hurt a lot.
and i don't remember the time my finger got partially chopped off by the tip. i was only 2-3, and a plastic surgeon or someone like that fixed it so i can't see the scar. and no one in my family can agree which finger it was now, and in the pictures we have of me from then i was always wearing the sock-hand-glove-puppet type thing that my mom made so i wouldn't have to see it.
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Post by oedipusbow on Aug 24, 2008 20:06:07 GMT -5
I've only had stitches twice. Once in my mouth, I had to go get those taken out by the dentist; then I had to get the tips of my middle, little, and thumb fingers sewn back together, but they had me on medicine so it didn't hurt that much. Clover, if you don't mind me asking it seems that you've had surgery quite a few times before. I was just wondering, is it for the same think, like an illness, or injuries. I completely understand if you don't feel comfortable answering.
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Post by Clover on Aug 24, 2008 21:10:14 GMT -5
Oh, I don't mind answering at all-- I have bone tumors that appear every now and again. They first appeared when I was sixteen, and have sort of continued every since. Osteochondroma, they're called. But since there's a 1/4 chance that any given osteochondroma is malignant (osteosarcoma), they have to be removed. So I've had two surgeries on my right-hand-ring-finger, one on my left-hand-middle-finger, and now one on my left leg/ankle down by the bottom. But yeah. I've gotten to the point where I'm old hat at the surgery.
Though for all my surgery experience, I'm not a huge fan of general anaesthetic any longer. I could totally have done without.
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Post by Trey on Aug 24, 2008 23:31:43 GMT -5
So Clover, seeing as you are so good at hitting the extremely small percentiles, shouldn't you be all about hitting that 1/4 chance?
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Post by Clover on Aug 25, 2008 1:56:43 GMT -5
That's what they thought this one was, actually. Its why everything was done so quickly--the first one took nine months to even get an MRI, and then another six month wait for the surgery, as it was obviously benign and thus, more of an elective procedure.
However, this tumor was palpable in December (I could feel if it I pressed down hard, but it wasn't yet visible on my leg)--and by May, when I went to my general practicioner, it was large enough that it was a visible lump--and it was affecting what shoes I could wear. May, I went to my GP, within a week I had X-Rays and a specialist, a week after that I had an MRI appointment. It took less then a month to get my MRI--there's a limited number of MRI machines, and I got bumped to the next available spot (my file had 'URGENT' written in red on it, I saw it). The MRI said there was a good chance it was benign--but the surgery was still scheduled for August. We played our chances with that.. we could have been scheduled in the next available slot, but I wanted to work as long as I could, and thus got the slot I did.
It turns out this tumor was, according to pathology, also benign.
But I really, really hope I don't even have a next one. They're unpleasant, and there's always the waiting game and the really shitty 'what ifs'.
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Post by Aindel on Aug 26, 2008 18:58:14 GMT -5
I have stitches in my mouth right now (I feel like we traded, Clover; yours came out, mine went in). All four wisdom teeth came out yesterday morning. None of them impacted, so I'm not in major, MAJOR pain, but it still feels like someone socked me what good on both sides of my jaw. And my cheeks are a little puffy. The fact that I can play with the threads in my mouth with my tongue is weirding me out just a little, though.
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Post by child-of-fae on Aug 26, 2008 19:07:49 GMT -5
i hate stitches. on another note, i get my braces off oct 7.
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Post by Trey on Aug 26, 2008 21:34:20 GMT -5
Aindel, when I got my wisdom teeth out, two things happened, (1) I retained my wisdom, and (b) I now have really annoying skin flaps at the back of my mouth that often cover my back teeth, so it's really difficult to brush back there. Oh, and sometimes food will get stuck and start rotting =D.
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Post by oedipusbow on Aug 26, 2008 22:04:04 GMT -5
When did you get your wisdom teeth out, Trey?
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