| User | Comment |
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| docgbrown | | posted 22-Mar-2007 4:04am |
With my tutelage, I would let my colleague remove the stitches. |
| ausfox | | posted 22-Mar-2007 5:41am |
I would go to a clinic or a doctor, are you crazy? |
| Cain | | posted 22-Mar-2007 7:33am |
I would, and have removed stitches myself. As long as the equipment I use is clean, I have no qualms about doing it myself.
Oh, apart from once - I had labial stitches after giving birth. I managed to get most of them out myself, but had to get my partner to remove the last two. I had just had enough of people I didn't know faffing about with my bits! |
romkey  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 9:13am |
You mean I didn't get the kind that dissolve? |
Enheduanna  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 9:14am |
Having once watched a doctor remove stitches from my finger, I am fairly confident in my ability to remove the stitches all by myself. On the other hand, I'm the kind of person who would want to make sure the wound looked OK and that it was really time to take the stitches out. I'd just go back to the emergency room (which is what I did when I had the stitches in my finger). |
bill  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 9:35am |
Given the very specific description, I would let my colleague remove the stitches. But, if it was me and my life, I'd have a professional medical person do it. Basically, I have a doctor and I would use my doctor (or really his shared practice which has a lot of staff, I suspect a nurse might actually do it). I would pay to have it done right. Though, I know it's really not a big deal to do. It's just in case there's some side issue or problem that a non-professional might miss. If I got stitches, I'm fairly sure that the same day, they would make an appointment to have them removed and I would keep that appointment. |
| kitti723 | | posted 22-Mar-2007 10:10am |
I went through a crazy 6 months where I ended up in the hospital for stitches 3x during that period. Ultimately, I ended up taking them out myself. |
| Wackadoo | | posted 22-Mar-2007 12:07pm |
I would rather remove them myself. |
Iseult  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 12:09pm |
Go to a walk in clinic. Finding a new doctor is a dog (trust me, I tried). I might try removing them myself. |
jettles  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 2:01pm |
ok, so the attractive person should not even be in the equation............ i would take them out myself since that is something that i do everyday but if i didn't i would go to a clinic or a new physician. |
| mandy | | posted 22-Mar-2007 3:53pm |
I would do it myself. This is pretty easy and basic. |
| hypersky | | posted 22-Mar-2007 6:01pm |
I'd take them out with my teeth and lick my wound clean. |
| Luke777 | | posted 22-Mar-2007 7:42pm |
Once I sliced my arm on a barb wire fence, got 23 stitches, wound up taking them out myself. Easy. |
| Amanda | | posted 22-Mar-2007 7:50pm |
I'd go back to the ER and have them remove the stitches. If you got them there, they'll remove them for free. |
gambler  | | posted 22-Mar-2007 7:50pm |
It depends? its so long since I have had them.......... I would remove them myself, before I would let someone else do it...................but I think I would go to a clinic or something |
| llamamama | | posted 22-Mar-2007 11:59pm |
I would go to a walk in clinic. I am not going to risk infection for a hot guy. |
| RGirl | | posted 23-Mar-2007 1:08am |
Remove them myself because I've was in nursing. If I hadn't I would still remove them myself. I wouldn't let a coworker do it just in case something got messed up and they would feel responsible, say infection or something and maybe your insurance wouldn't cover treatment of an infection since you didn't follow doctor's orders. |
LindaH  | | posted 23-Mar-2007 1:41am |
It's as much a mystery as who's gonna take out the garbage. |
| Enigma | | posted 23-Mar-2007 4:10pm |
Go to the walk in clinic. Unless you personally can tell there is no infection or any other problem that will come back to haunt you. Then I say take them out yourself. Leave the co workers out of it. |
| Zang | | posted 24-Mar-2007 3:35pm |
This situation wasn't so hypothetical for me. I let my colleague take out the stitches. If she hadn't offered, I would have taken them out myself, more than likely. I didn't feel like wasting hours sitting around waiting for medical attention again after my lengthy ordeal at the ER. I didn't see going back there as an option. They didn't offer it and getting stitches removed is hardly an emergency. I'd be waiting a real long time, as everyone else coming in would be more of an emergency...that is, even if they would consider seeing me at all, which I doubt.
Oh yeah, and I know what an infection looks like. I wasn't born yesterday. |
| mve17 | | posted 24-Mar-2007 5:46pm |
Touch my stitches, feel my fork |
| Biggles | | posted 25-Mar-2007 9:52am |
I work in a hospital so assuming that the attractive colleague was a nurse or a doctor rather than a secretary, it seems like a good way to avoid waiting for hours. |
| cabinfever | | posted 26-Mar-2007 2:24am |
Honestly, I'd let the attractive colleague remove them... but practically, your employer should be paying for the doctor, so you should have him/her remove the stitches, even if you have to go to a local clinic... just remember to take your worker's comp. claim number with you. |
| cabinfever | | (reply to Zang) posted 26-Mar-2007 2:27am |
Here in the U.S. we have worker's comp... employers are insured for workers' injuries. Does Canada have something like that? Your employer should be paying to have the stitches removed. |
| Zang |
Yes, except in Canada it's under provincial jurisdiction. Here, it's called WorkSafeBC. My employer pays my medical insurance premiums, so in a sense, they would have "paid" to have my stitches taken out. WorkSafeBC would cover any lost wages if I wasn't able to return to work, but that wasn't the case, so although the paperwork was filed, I didn't make a claim. For me, it wasn't at all an issue of money. I just didn't see the point in going to all the bother and waiting just for a very simple procedure that my colleague performed in a matter of five minutes. If she hadn't done it I would have done it myself. I just find it easier to have someone else do things like that. We all have first aid training, it's a prerequisite of the job. This was my second injury in nine months. I must say, I'm very impressed with the first aid skills of my colleagues! In fact, everyone admired the bandaging job I got before I went in for stitches! I passed along the kudos to the fellow that did that!  |
| CarolL | | posted 28-Mar-2007 4:06am |
In my experience, I would have already removed the stitches myself, so the question is moot-If the attractive person could bring me to orgasm while I was doing that would be a definite plus! Except that i would rather not be preoccupied by removing stitches so I could concentrate...on.... |
