Removing stitches DIY

[passedpawn]

How many gaping head wounds have you had if it's become standard operating procedure for your wife to take stitches out of your head?

Lots. I guess I am klumsy.

 

[Hello]

Seriously, that wedding photographer earned her money! She's brilliant and your friends are hilarious.
If that pic of you was taken yesterday, I would give it another day or so for healing.

 

[beernutz]

No oozing, no sign of infection, not sure on the healed enough, hence why I am asking!

The story is really not all that exciting. I was a groomsman, and had been feeling sick to my stomach for about an hour before the ceremony began. I think I got some bad food.... So anyways ceremony starts, I am standing up there and it gets worse, I feel like I am about to barf. I think to myself 2 things, 1 I can hold this down, 2 this minister better hurry the f up! Just as he goes into the bible passages my vision goes dark, last thought of oh sh&$t goes through my head and I wake up on the ground (outdoor wedding stone patio) = busted head. Everybody is around me as I try to stand back up saying it's ok, I can go on. Really I couldn't. So my wife takes me to the ER and the wedding went on. I came back after I was discharged and everybody was having a good laugh. I have some good photos I will post tomorrow, I don't think I can post them from my phone.

Why were you wearing oven mitts?

 

[TX_Brewing]

Seriously, that wedding photographer earned her money! She's brilliant and your friends are hilarious.
If that pic of you was taken yesterday, I would give it another day or so for healing.

That pic was Sunday morning, the day after it happened.

 

[TX_Brewing]

Why were you wearing oven mitts?

The world may never know.....

 

[broadbill]

No oozing, no sign of infection, not sure on the healed enough, hence why I am asking!

The story is really not all that exciting. I was a groomsman, and had been feeling sick to my stomach for about an hour before the ceremony began. I think I got some bad food.... So anyways ceremony starts, I am standing up there and it gets worse, I feel like I am about to barf. I think to myself 2 things, 1 I can hold this down, 2 this minister better hurry the f up! Just as he goes into the bible passages my vision goes dark, last thought of oh sh&$t goes through my head and I wake up on the ground (outdoor wedding stone patio) = busted head. Everybody is around me as I try to stand back up saying it's ok, I can go on. Really I couldn't. So my wife takes me to the ER and the wedding went on. I came back after I was discharged and everybody was having a good laugh. I have some good photos I will post tomorrow, I don't think I can post them from my phone.

Would be interesting to hear if you were really sick afterward. Fainting happens alot at weddings, because people lock their knees while standing up at the ceremony. Locking your knees means the leg muscles aren't contracting to push blood back up to your heart/brain (blood return to the heart is a low-pressure system, and relies on muscle contraction to get it there, much like squeezing a tube of toothpaste). If it goes on long enough, the blood pools in the legs, blood pressure drops and out you go.

 

[passedpawn]

Would be interesting to hear if you were really sick afterward. Fainting happens alot at weddings, because people lock their knees while standing up at the ceremony. Locking your knees means the leg muscles aren't contracting to push blood back up to your heart/brain (blood return to the heart is a low-pressure system, and relies on muscle contraction to get it there, much like squeezing a tube of toothpaste). If it goes on long enough, the blood pools in the legs, blood pressure drops and out you go.

One night while visiting someone in the mountains I woke up, walked to the bathroom, and passed out for no reason at all. Woke up in a pool of blood - think my head hit the tub on the way down. I think the high-altitude and rising quickly like that dropped the blood flow to my head. The next morning I was eating my breakfast and my wife, behind, did a WTF when she saw the gash. Got staples in that one a few hours later.

 

[ChefRex]

I suggest you get to a plastic ASAP unless you want to have Franken-forehead.

Chicks dig scars[emoji57]

 

[Yooper]

How many gaping head wounds have you had if it's become standard operating procedure for your wife to take stitches out of your head?

Haha- I'm clumsy too.

I did something minor on my brewstand, and I called @lschiavo and proudly told him I only drew blood once.

I have scars from cuts, burns, etc, broken many bones, had several head injuries, and they are all usually "dumb" things.

My husband has taken away my propane torch and most sharp items.

One time, years ago, my ex asked me to run and get a tool for him while we were doing something in the basement, and so I did. I turned and ran. Right into a pipe across the ceiling, and knocked myself out cold. I was out for a while, ambulance ride and everything. The worst part? I've done it like two more times..........................

Still, I don't have a cool scar like that on my face. I have an interesting on my left chest, though.

 

[brrman]

I have had my wife actually give me stitches right on the kitchen floor. Sliced my leg open above the knee and she pulled out the needle and suture, jabbed me with a little Marcaine and sewed me right up.

I thought it was kinda cool until she put the needle in where she the marcaine had not taken affect. ouch! (oh, my wife is a vet, not Rambo)...

 

[slym2none]

I think she has a sister......

Older or younger? 80% of the time, younger sisters are cuter than the older...

 

[b-boy]

I have had my wife actually give me stitches right on the kitchen floor. Sliced my leg open above the knee and she pulled out the needle and suture, jabbed me with a little Marcaine and sewed me right up.

I thought it was kinda cool until she put the needle in where she the marcaine had not taken affect. ouch! (oh, my wife is a vet, not Rambo)...

Rambo was a vet too. It's kinda the point of the movie.

 

[Newsman]

My wife always removed mine (usually on my head). No prob.

Can't resist -- Did she help create the need for them in the first place?

 

[passedpawn]

Can't resist -- Did she help create the need for them in the first place?

Nope. Ones I remember atm: birdbath, truck exhaust stack, baseball bleachers, leg of couch, steering wheel

 

[Newsman]

One night while visiting someone in the mountains I woke up, walked to the bathroom, and passed out for no reason at all. Woke up in a pool of blood - think my head hit the tub on the way down. I think the high-altitude and rising quickly like that dropped the blood flow to my head. The next morning I was eating my breakfast and my wife, behind, did a WTF when she saw the gash. Got staples in that one a few hours later.

Went to a Halloween party at a friends one time. Had some of my "extra-strength" cider. Went upstairs to use the head... lost my balance and hit my head on the tub. No damage, but I did hurt my ego and needed some more cider to help soothe my ego.

 

[Newsman]

Nope. Ones I remember atm: birdbath, truck exhaust stack, baseball bleachers, leg of couch, steering wheel

Ahh... you're no fun! Here I was hoping you'd have some good stories about her whacking you over the head with a cast iron frying pan!

 

[passedpawn]

Ahh... you're no fun! Here I was hoping you'd have some good stories about her whacking you over the head with a cast iron frying pan!

Actually the leg of couch was swung by a girl who was mad at me (it was part of a pile of scrap the she was burning in a fireplace). I was knocked out, my friends dragged me home that night. Woke up the next morning with a lot of blood and a part of my eyebrow gone. Happy now?

 

[Newsman]

Actually the leg of couch was swung by a girl who was mad at me (it was part of a pile of scrap the she was burning in a fireplace). I was knocked out, my friends dragged me home that night. Woke up the next morning with a lot of blood and a part of my eyebrow gone. Happy now?

LOL! You sure do like to live dangerously don't you??? As Rudyard Kipling once said "The Female of the Species is more deadly than the male!"

 

[b-boy]

Nope. Ones I remember atm: birdbath, truck exhaust stack, baseball bleachers, leg of couch, steering wheel

Wow - you might want to get checked for CTE.

 

[slym2none]

I had stitches sewn into my head 3 times before I was 5 years old. My older brother was only involved in 2 of those incidents.

If anyone is wondering why I am the way I am, there you go.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

ammatuers.

 

[passedpawn]

ammatuers.

I was waiting for that! That, folks, is why you don't try open a bottle of beer with your teeth.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I was waiting for that! That, folks, is why you don't try open a bottle of beer with your teeth.

ha! use someone elses teeth!

 

[ChefRex]

Chicks dig scars[emoji57]

Haha- I'm clumsy too.

I did something minor on my brewstand, and I called @lschiavo and proudly told him I only drew blood once.

I have scars from cuts, burns, etc, broken many bones, had several head injuries, and they are all usually "dumb" things.

My husband has taken away my propane torch and most sharp items.

One time, years ago, my ex asked me to run and get a tool for him while we were doing something in the basement, and so I did. I turned and ran. Right into a pipe across the ceiling, and knocked myself out cold. I was out for a while, ambulance ride and everything. The worst part? I've done it like two more times..........................

Still, I don't have a cool scar like that on my face. . I have an interesting on my left chest, though.

See, And @Yooper 's a cool chick

 

[TX_Brewing]

Update. I did it yesterday, easy peasy. Looks like I will have a little bit of a scar, nothing too big, but enough to be a badge of (dis)? honor.