Stitches removal

40isthenew50

40isthenew50

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so I'm getting some stitches removed today. A non tree related accident at work, but still enough to keep me grounded for a week. Hopefully the Dr. Gives me the ok to fully return. Who whould have thought that a thumb injury would slow me down so much?lol.
 

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oldoakman said:
Candy! Take them out yourself. Sheesh! At one point I was cutting myself and needing stitches so often that I asked the Doc to just give me a few suture kits so I wouldn't bother him so much. He didn't give them to me though, musta had a kid in college or something.
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Well I had to go anyways to get cleared to get off light duty. Company policy. Ya I've pulled my own before not a big deal.
 
Got ya beat by a mile. I have 38 in one chainsaw cut. For a while in my late teens and early 20's I had matching scars. About every 6 months I would slice myself and each cut I had, 6months later I would do the same thing to the opposite side of my body.
 
Nah just need to be careful around sharp instruments is all. I seem to have outgrown that clumsy adolescent stage finally.
 
I didn't start acquiring stitches until 2014 and so far have a total of 36 I think.

My first wound was at my old job box cutter to the arm screwed me up good too. I had eight stitches putting my muscle back together and 12 closing my arm up.
First day working for a tree company I somehow managed to smash my finger between two pieces of wood while running a splitter for the first time in my life. The pressure of the wood pushing together with my finger trapped between them ripped it open along the bone, it was weird. Almost exactly one year later I took a rogue branch to the eye. Eight stitches put me together for each of those incidents.

I don't know where any of those cool pictures went. I should've taken a video of my arm before they put it back together. When I relaxed my hand the inside of my forearm muscle was hanging out, it looked like fish eggs or something, and when I made a fist it would suck back up towards my hand.
 
40isthenew50 said:
so I'm getting some stitches removed today. A non tree related accident at work, but still enough to keep me grounded for a week. Hopefully the Dr. Gives me the ok to fully return. Who whould have thought that a thumb injury would slow me down so much?lol.
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Just from looking at that wound, I would have. Can you tell us how the accident happened? Sometimes sharing how accidents happen can teach others how to prevent a similar incident. Thanks.

Tim
 
Scars are like tattoos with better stories!

I stopped my stitch count after the fourth hand surgery in 8 months. Each time there were about 35 external and 30 or so internal.

My first stitches were when I was 4. All part of an active life.

I removed 8 staples from my knee after having the bursa removed. I got tongue lashed by the nurse who was supposed to do the removals hehehhehe!
 
TimBr said:
Just from looking at that wound, I would have. Can you tell us how the accident happened? Sometimes sharing how accidents happen can teach others how to prevent a similar incident. Thanks.

Tim
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I was pulling a piece of steel of the steel rack, a piece of 2" round stock about 2 feet long. Guessing @ 40lbs. Anyways the opposite end fell of the support dropping and forced the othe end up smashing the top and tearing the bottom.
Well I only got 1 stitch removed today. And now I have an appt. with a hand specialist, possible tendon damage.
 
I was still a young teen when I figured out paying for stitch removal is stupid, unless they're in your eyeball or such. A really small pair of pointy scissors, a warm shower and a few minutes with some tweezers and you're set!
 
Told my brother and he laughed he said he's up around 150. He's always been a 1 upper.
Drumbo said:
I didn't start acquiring stitches until 2014 and so far have a total of 36 I think.

My first wound was at my old job box cutter to the arm screwed me up good too. I had eight stitches putting my muscle back together and 12 closing my arm up.
First day working for a tree company I somehow managed to smash my finger between two pieces of wood while running a splitter for the first time in my life. The pressure of the wood pushing together with my finger trapped between them ripped it open along the bone, it was weird. Almost exactly one year later I took a rogue branch to the eye. Eight stitches put me together for each of those incidents.

I don't know where any of those cool pictures went. I should've taken a video of my arm before they put it back together. When I relaxed my hand the inside of my forearm muscle was hanging out, it looked like fish eggs or something, and when I made a fist it would suck back up towards my hand.
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The splitter accidents suck!!! Smashed fingers hurt!!! And delay the wood getting split.
 
I should've followed up with doctors after my arm situation. I have little to no feeling in a quarter of my forearm and sometimes my ring and pinky finger go numb definitely have some tendon and nerve damage. But I was and still am young and stupid sometimes.
 
40isthenew50 said:
I was pulling a piece of steel of the steel rack, a piece of 2" round stock about 2 feet long. Guessing @ 40lbs. Anyways the opposite end fell of the support dropping and forced the othe end up smashing the top and tearing the bottom.
Well I only got 1 stitch removed today. And now I have an appt. with a hand specialist, possible tendon damage.
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Sorry to hear about the possible tendon damage. I hope that's not the case, and that you heal quickly. Thanks for discussing how the accident happened.

Tim
 
Tom Dunlap said:
Scars are like tattoos with better stories!

I stopped my stitch count after the fourth hand surgery in 8 months. Each time there were about 35 external and 30 or so internal.

My first stitches were when I was 4. All part of an active life.

I removed 8 staples from my knee after having the bursa removed. I got tongue lashed by the nurse who was supposed to do the removals hehehhehe!
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That hand has to be all scar tissue? Wow!! And the therapy that's going along with the surgery's has to be just as painful.
 
TimBr said:
Sorry to hear about the possible tendon damage. I hope that's not the case, and that you heal quickly. Thanks for discussing how the accident happened.

Tim
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Pretty boring story all in all. The guys at work didn't even think I was hurt because I was so calm, not that it was a horrific accident or anything. Most of those guys are drama queens and over react about everything.
 
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