OT:Taking a Break

John, I'm a bit late on this thread, but want to send healing thoughts from Tucson. Hope you are well and working much sooner than you expected! We'll miss you, so hope the hunt-and-peck system works well for the time being.

What the heck did you do? I only ask because I want to know...........

Sit back and relax for a while. Somehow I think that's probably difficult for you. I'm sorry about your hand, it must be very frustrating. Have a wonderful holiday season and heal quickly! We will miss your posts.

On Dec 12, 4:07=A0am, John wrote: The sitches came out today and I am on the mend. I now use the modified hunt and peck method of typing. The prognosis is for a continuing recovery cycle, with full recovery a time related issue. How long rests on the answer to the question, "How long will it take to restore myself to 100%"? "It depends" is of course the response I got. I am able to do limited quilting things (yea!), but I still can't grip large ammounts of fabric due to the stiffness of the two fingers of the injured hand. Kind of like being able to do piecing but not sandswich topstiching/quilting of the bed sized quilt I was working on. "Life is what intrudes, when you are making plans", I guess is the opperative saying here, and gets better with the passage of time. Thanks for all of the concern. Further updates as they occur,

John

It's good to hear that you're making progress, John! I hope you'll be back to 100% sooner than you think. :)

Good to hear you are on the mend. Take care that there are no further incidents.

Howdy!

John, welcome back.

Re: Stitches taken out --- did you take your own seam ripper or did they use a sterilized one from the doc?

Re: "restore myself to 100%" -- ah, c'mon, John; we've known you long enough to question, "Were you ever 100%?" Time & physical therapy will heal your injured fingers. Meanwhile, just fondle the fabric... ... or .. whatever.

Merry Christmas!

R/Sandy

You wouldn't kick a guy when he was down, would you? Fondle whatever, indeed. You leave me "groping" for an answer.

John

I think it depends on the stitches and what they are intended to do. On some that are internal, obviously they would use the kind that dissolve. For those on the outside, they might use those that need to be removed if they want to make sure that the suture stays sewn up. Plus, don't forget, they can bill your insurance for the office visit, to remove those sutures. An important fiscal planing approach to medicine. (turn off irony generator now.)

John

When my brother had his heart bypass earlier this year they glued his chest together, no stitches outside at all. Quite unlike my bypass 10 years ago when I got a row of large staples that have left little scars were they where inserted. Shirley

Howdy!

John, how about a palm peeler?

R/Sandy-- really, I was quilting in the front room, next to the big Christmas tree, decided it was time for a break, and I'm seeing pics of "palm peelers" ... and I'm not even going any further with that! Tiny stitches are us!

p.s. Jeanne, they put real thread stitches in my knee this year; there was thread fuzz left behind when nurse pulled out the stitches, itched for a while 'til I scrubbed them out

ah yes, internal stitches would need to dissolve. silly me. i've never had stitches(that i could see without the mirror) that i can recall anyhow. just asked dh about the ones on his arms and he said they did indeed pull them out. we dont have to worry about insurance here. we have national health that covers all the medical attention needed when its an accident. of course you can have private insurance if you want but i dont know how that works. i think if you need some surgery you dont have to go onto the national health waiting list when it isnt urgent life threatening surgery. that you do get immediately. means those who need hip or knee replacements and anything else not life threatening can wait a long time for the work to be done. if they have private insurance it can be done as soon as the doctors can arrange it. i plan on just dropping dead and save all that nonsense. cant be bothered waiting for something to be done. lovely thot that, isnt it, lol. j.

"John" wrote... I th> do they remove stitches these days?

"nzlstar*" wrote:

Not only stitches but my sternum is wired together with titanium wire. Sometimes when I bend down I can feel one of the wires sticking in. To see my chest X-ray there is a row of metal loops running about 10 inches down my sternum. It has to be wired together so that the bone can knit together again. Shirley

In message , nzlstar* writes

My wife and I challenge each other as to who is going to die first. She says she wants to go first, so she won't have to fill her car up with gasoline. She has never filled up her car with gas since we have been married, 35 years. Yes I know, you envious people, I take her car to the gas station and fill it up because, she doesn't like to get that messy gas smell all over her dainty little hands. (This from a former peace corp volunteer and feminist of the 1960's, sigh!). Also she is clueless about doing home repairs, she says. I tell her that I will be shot dead by a jealous husband, at the age of 99, with cause. She calls me the dreamer in the family.

John

What a cheery pair of souls you are, lol.

I generally leave the filling up of the car to DH as I hate doing it. No feminist in me. My philosophy is 'why have a dog and bark yourself'... Mind I'm sure DH thinks that also when he leaves his dirty clothes laying on the bedroom floor instead of putting them in the dirty laundry basket ready for moi to launder.

Elly (with not much Christmas spirit in her... better go buy some Baileys)

"John" wrote My wife and I challenge each other as to who is going to die first. She says she wants to go first, so she won't have to fill her car up with gasoline. She has never filled up her car with gas since we have been married, 35 years. Yes I know, you envious people, I take her car to the gas station and fill it up because, she doesn't like to get that messy gas smell all over her dainty little hands. (This from a former peace corp volunteer and feminist of the 1960's, sigh!). Also she is clueless about doing home repairs, she says. I tell her that I will be shot dead by a jealous husband, at the age of 99, with cause. She calls me the dreamer in the family.

John

Howdy!

Shirley, the Bionic Woman: Does this sound follow you around?

Merry Christmas!

R/Sandy

That sounds a little like your stitches have come from sitting upon your sharp and pointy scissors. Debra in VA See my quilts at