My long ordeal is over.
After taking Henry to day care and dropping Cami off at work this morning, I went back to the hospital where I went when I had my accident last week to have my stitches taken out.
I’ve pretty much been a big baby through this entire ordeal and at one point Cami said she wanted to be in the room when they took my stitches out to support me. It’s a touching gesture, really. But I didn’t want to waste her time and insisted she go to work instead.
I actually became somewhat comfortable with the stitches in the last few days. Well, aside from the itching. But that was a good thing because itching means healing!
I was nervous about getting the stitches out only because I didn’t know if they were going to hurt or not. I’ve never had stitches before, so I had no frame of reference. I’m happy to say it was no big deal. Just a little tug. It feel like someone was tweezing the hair off the top of my hand.
I was nervous after checking in, though. I thought they would just sit me down and do it. Instead, they took me into triage, had me lay down on a gurney, took my temperature, took my blood pressure and put that little heart monitor clip on the tip of my finger. “Is all of this necessary, I thought?
But I guess it was all just standard procedures they were following. In the end, it wasn’t the second round of trauma I anticipate it to be. I even watched as they took out the stitches! That’s a big improvement over nearly vomiting and passing out a week ago!
So now I can go back to life pretty much as it was before. I don’t have to wear a bandage, I can get my hand wet. Basically keep it clean and wait for it to become a scar.
Oh, and what a scar it will be. I took another picture of my hand without stitches. You can see it here. I pretty much plan on telling people I got in a fight with a grizzly bear to explain it from this point forward.
In the meantime, I wanted to say thanks again to all of you who sent well wishes. I was impressed by how fast this wound healed and I have no doubt your support played a large role in that.
So, thank you.
Glad to hear it’s healing up. It still looks pretty gruesome. Are there any detailed photos of Shia’s hand injury that we can compare it to?
handy tip they might not have mentioned, buy some cheap(ish) generic body moisturiser-E45 if they sell that in the US but make sure it’s unfragranced etc- and lather the wound with it when you think you can get away with it, keeps the scaring down to a minimum trust me on this one, it also stops the skin healing tight andso is the reason I can still use my left index finger fully (that and the extremely competent plastic surgeon).
thought I’d pass it on and make the world a better place -trying to keep the movie theme, but glad it’s not affected your drawing or job hunting so good luck with that too.
Tian
If anyone asks where you got the scar from, you should make up a badass story about a knife fight to the death with your evil clone…or just tell them what actually happened.
A friend of mine said it look like Tyler Durden put lye on my hand.
This is now the “official” scar story.
Glad to hear your hand is coming along just fine.
Looks like you’ll end up with a kick ass scar. 🙂
It’s a pretty huge change considering it at first. For a party trick you could draw eyes on your hand cause it looks like a pretty twisted grin.
It also makes a pretty effective Dad story for when you are teaching your son how to go about power tool safety.