>----- Original Message -----
From: "Tammy " <tammytl@msn.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: The stitch left behind after my surgery.....
> 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
>