The Stitches Stay In

Well, the dr visit came and went, pretty uneventfully. The cut hadn’t healed to the point where the doc wanted to take the stitches out today. It’s still a little wetter than the doc wants it, at least on the side toward my index finger. I did get to soak the finger in peroxide and saline, which was okay. It’s a little cleaner. So we’ll spend another week with the stitches in, doing saline wraps that should aid the drying process. If all goes as planned we’ll take the stitches out next Thursday. In the meantime I get to try bending the knuckle a little each day. It’s pretty sore and doesn’t want to flex much, which is normal.

The nurse laughed when I called the pain jangly. She pressed on it, and it hurt a little to try to rub the dried blood off, but I guess that’s to be expected.

No pictures for today. I think I'll hold off until there's a change.

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