Re: The stitch left behind after my surgery.....

From: Tammy (tammytl@msn.com)
Mon Jul 22 13:49:55 2002


Chrissy! Leave it alone! Let your Dr take care of it, call the nurse or something, but don't go cutting on yourself. As far as your beauty, I can tell you are a beautiful person where it counts, you have been a great new friend to me and a piller of support to many, I can tell by reading the message boards. Your beauty is full and intact so worry not. After I had my Hystorectomy, they left the staples in for 2 weeks and the staples began to pull at my skin and became awfully uncomfortable, so one day I pulled one out, opps, the skin of the incision popped open, now I have a clean scar except for at the very top where I pulled that staple, the scar is a little wider and poofs out a little. In Short......Don't do that! God Bless and Take Care of You Tammy Lynn At Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chrissy492@aol.com wrote: >
>Hi everyone, ")
>I pray all is well as you are reading this post. I have a question, after
>your surgery were you left a stitch or 2 sticking out from your incision(s)?
>If so, what did you do with it? Let me tell you what NOT to do.
>OK, so it's been a couple of months since my surgery. As I peek at the six
>incisions made on my belly I made sure all were healing fine. After the scar
>scabby parts (what a visual huh) went away, I noticed a couple of stitches
>that were hanging from 2 of my 6 incisions.
>Hmmm, I pulled a little, ouch - wrong answer - then I rubbed a little, darn
>things didn't rub off even with some water added. I decided to try cutting
>both of them with scissors. One of the piece of stitch was close to a mole I
>have that my Mom always called a beauty mark. As I carefully cut on one of
>the stitches I felt this awful cut like pain. Hmmm I thought to myself the
>stitch has feelings. Um, er, nope -it was my mole! It was bleeding like
>crazy! I jumped up and got a a towel and rubbed off the blood. My eyes
>opened with amazement, 1/2 my mole was cut off! YIKES - and if any of you
>had a mole you accidentally shaved off, like I once did when I was shaving my
>legs - I shaved off a mole that was on the back of my leg, you know that they
>bleed like you really cut the heck out of them. After a couple of towels and
>some peroxide, the bleeding stopped thank God. Now the beauty mark is 1/2
>gone, does that mean that the little left of my beauty is gone with the 1/2
>mole I accidentally cut off? Needless to say, I'm leaving the other stitch
>there till I have my doctor look at it. Now why didn't I cut the incision
>that wasn't by my mole? Hmmmmm, another thing that makes you go -
>hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......tee hee
>Love to all of you,
>~Chrissie ox's

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