| User | Comment |
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| lara | | posted 27-Jan-2000 8:24am |
seven of 'em in my right arm after i accidentally stuck it through a window when i was twelve. |
| jonathan | | posted 27-Jan-2000 9:24am |
I had a couple above my right eyebrow, and a few more beneath my chin for separate accidents. |
| cpierson | | posted 27-Jan-2000 9:56am |
I can't remember how many, but I've had them on the bridge of my nose and the heel of my left hand. Not Fight Club-style stuff; it all happened when I was a kid. |
Maarten  | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:08am |
Yes, twice. The first time when I was about twelve years old and crashed into car. I got four stitches in my chin.
The second time was January 1999 after a night of too much drugs and alcohol. No idea what happened. I woke up next to an ambulance. This time I got four stitches in my forehead. |
| Oscar | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:10am |
No, not yet at least. |
| daver | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:12am |
Let's see: five on my stomach, three on my head, five on a pinky, four on my chin, five more on the same pinky. It's a good thing I spaced them out. |
| Jody | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:34am |
Two, in my mouth, but they were the meltaway kind so they're gone now... |
romkey  | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:39am |
once, on my left ankle after surgery to put the ball of the ankle back on its bone. |
| Maggie | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:50am |
2 in the bottom of my foot. |
| lelle | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:59am |
When I was five, a few in my neck after having a birthmark removed. Then in the past six months, one in my arm after having Norplant removed, a few in my leg after having a mole removed, and many (30 or so I would guess) in the same spot after melanoma surgery. |
dab  | | posted 27-Jan-2000 11:00am |
In my gums after having my wisdom teeth extracted. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 27-Jan-2000 11:07am |
I just got five of them in the index finger of my left hand last night, after slicing *myself* instead of a loaf of bread. It's the first time I've ever had stitches, and quite obviously the inspiration for this survey!
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| phi | | posted 27-Jan-2000 11:14am |
I had seven stitches in the web between my thumb and forefinger when I was in second grade. I had two stitches in the top of my head a couple of years ago. I probably didn't really need stitches for the head lac but it was good practice for the intern. |
they   | | posted 27-Jan-2000 11:27am |
On my knee when I was 10 - 7 on the outside and I don't know how many on the inside.. With my c-section, I had staples on the outside and stitches on the inside. |
| natsim | | posted 27-Jan-2000 12:26pm |
In the back of my head, after getting a cyst removed. It's very strange having people operate on the back of your head when you've only had a local anaesthetic! |
| eris | | posted 27-Jan-2000 12:28pm |
I think about six, after my appendectomy. They took a long time to dissolve. |
| lion | | posted 27-Jan-2000 12:35pm |
Two stitches in my left hand after I stabbed myself with an exacto knife. A number of stitches in my gums after having my wisdom teeth removed, and my jaws broken and realigned. |
| gilly | | posted 27-Jan-2000 1:17pm |
Oh yeah, forgot about the ones after having my wisdom teeth out. Not sure how many stiches that was, but it was all 4 teeth. |
| doom | | posted 27-Jan-2000 2:19pm |
10 on my face and I don't know how many from ear surgery. |
| daver | | posted 27-Jan-2000 4:40pm |
Whoops, forgot the wisdom teeth ones. I'd guess three per tooth, but I'm not sure. |
| magbast | | posted 27-Jan-2000 7:21pm |
seven stitches on my forearm...and two for a wisdom tooth |
| romkey | | posted 27-Jan-2000 7:35pm |
wisdom teeth removal stitches. EW! :( |
| mandy | | posted 27-Jan-2000 9:03pm |
All my stitches itch, my prescription's low...
I wish you were queen,
just for a day...... |
| Maarten | | posted 27-Jan-2000 9:04pm |
TwM: Didn't understand 1 word of it, but heh, since it's you, it must be poetic!  |
| mandy | | posted 27-Jan-2000 10:10pm |
It's Manson.....
GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD
In space the stars are no nearer they just glitter like a morgue
and I dreamed I was a spaceman
burned like a moth in a flame and our world was so fudging gone
but I'm not attached to your world nothing heals and nothing grows
because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors we used to love ourselves, we used to love one another
all my
stitches itch my prescription's low, I wish you were queen just for a day in a world so white what else could I say?
and hell was so cold all
the vases are so broken and the roses tear our hands all open mother mary miscarry but we pray just like insects the world is so ugly now
because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors we used to love ourselves, we used to love one another
all my
stitches itch my prescription's low, I wish you were queen just for a day in a world so white what else could I say?
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| supplicant | | posted 28-Jan-2000 6:30am |
I had 3 under my chin from when I was about two or three years old and some irresponsible house guests left the bathroom floor wet... The scar is very visible if I tilt my head so you can see the underside of my jaw, but not at all visible otherwise. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 28-Jan-2000 8:38am |
supplicant: I have a very similar scar, although it didn't require stitches. And mine was from when I was maybe five, and I was skating around on our hardwood floor in my socks, when my feet slipped out from under me and whoosh! crack! But it only needed a butterfly bandage. |
| pandora | | posted 28-Jan-2000 10:32am |
Yeah, lots and lots. Many different injuries required them. |
| pandora | | posted 28-Jan-2000 10:34am |
I just realized that I have a weird fascination with scars. |
| Lauren | | posted 28-Jan-2000 1:13pm |
I had 8 stitches on my knee last September. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 28-Jan-2000 2:27pm |
pandora: I find myself already imagining what the scar will look like. I think I have a weird scar thing too. |
bill  | | posted 28-Jan-2000 2:30pm |
head (twice I think, I can't remember), chin (some internal/dissolving ones too), and left thumb.
I had staples after some abdominal surgery, does that count? (I looked like Frankenstein's monster) |
| bill | | posted 28-Jan-2000 2:37pm |
I got what I think was a frost bite scar from skiing in very cold conditions a couple weeks ago (it was a line of exposed skin between my goggles and my head sock). It was on my face (it made me look tough), but alas it faded, now I'm a wimp again. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 28-Jan-2000 2:40pm |
bill: I certainly think staples count--I include them mentally with stitches. Anything that makes you look like Frankenstein's monster!
I was noticing that the blue "thread" they used for the stitches results in the most garish possible wound you could imagine. Why not a nice, festive green or something? |
| Eeah | | posted 28-Jan-2000 3:10pm |
Yes. I slammed the tip of my (left) middle finger in the hinge of a screen door... I put a bandaid on it.. and acted like nothing happened-- until my mom flipped and made me go to the ER. 2 stitches... and a fractured tip. |
| SueBee | | posted 28-Jan-2000 5:00pm |
Only three of 'em, in my head when I was 5 years old. My brother moved when I was planning to run into him and I hit the wall heater instead. Then some in both feet after surgery when I was a teenager. |
| daver | | posted 28-Jan-2000 5:27pm |
Doh! I keep remembering more as people mention their own. I had a couple (2 or 3) on my knee. |
| they | | posted 28-Jan-2000 8:20pm |
Bill - I was so sickened by the thought of there being staples in my abdomen after my c-section, that the whole time they were there I didn't look at them. (Luckily they removed them before I left the hospital) The really gross part is that they made me wear these gauze-like net underwear that kept getting hung up on the stitches.  |
| mandy | | posted 28-Jan-2000 8:38pm |
I loved my staples. They were so freakish. Removal was toe curling. |
| supplicant | | posted 28-Jan-2000 9:43pm |
I suspect most boys go through a scar fascination phase, though I have no evidence to back this up (Survey! Survey!  ). Personally I never grew out of mine, I love scars. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 29-Jan-2000 11:19am |
But I'm not a boy...
Anyone feel like washing "Crash" now? ;) |
| mandy | | posted 29-Jan-2000 2:09pm |
I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like scars and deformities. Anything too perfect seems unnatural.
Tattoos and piercings and scarification and branding are a great way to take what nature gives us and change it so it belongs just to us.
For that matter, makeup and haircolor and permanent waves fit in too.
I am doing a modification to my car this weekend to give it one windshield wiper in the middle of the windshield.
Dare to look different...... |
| jzp | | posted 29-Jan-2000 4:26pm |
mouth, hand, shoulder in that order.
the first from dentistry, the latter two from stupidity. |
| ILJ | | posted 31-Jan-2000 8:58am |
yes, when I had my wisdom teeth removed. |
| Matt | | posted 31-Jan-2000 9:17am |
I've had plenty of stitches, when I was younger, I got cut by a hockey skate and had to get stitches in the inside of my cheek, and they wernt the melting type so I had to go back to get them taken out... then, I passed through a window in high school and cut my back at a few spots, but they just put the little stitches for that. I had other stitches too, but the latest ones were for my wisdom teeth about 2 years ago. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 31-Jan-2000 9:49am |
I am growing to know and love my stitches. I haven't been keeping a band-aid over them, so they're just out in the open, waving around, reminding me they're there. I like running my thumb over the little ends of them that are sticking up every which way--sometimes it kind of tickles. Now that the cut is healing, and cleaner, they don't look so gruesome. They're so tidy, each with their little knot at one side, but still playful with their wild ends. I think I may be sad to see them go... |
| mandy | | posted 31-Jan-2000 8:03pm |
*crying*
Euheduanna...That was lovely...... |
| bill |
Staple removal was quite an experience, the device they used on me was not unlike a staple remover you might by at an office supply store. |
| jonathan |
Enheduanna: You're the poster-child for human adaptation to circumstance. |
| they |
My incision site was and still is so numb that I didn't even feel the staples coming out. |
| Gamera |
Enheduanna - there is absolutely no way I could look at my stitches waving in the breeze without chewing on them, tugging on them, or otherwise messing myself up by fidgiting. Now that you mention it, I'm surprised that Zik hasn't tried. Or has he? |
| Dave |
Had a cut once on my hand that probably should have, but I hid it, since I had been goofing around with a pocket knife, and didn't want to look stupid to my parents. Other than that, I've been relatively injury-free in my life. |
| Enheduanna |
Twist: thanks!! topper: I've been pretty careful to keep the finger away from the cats' noses and mouths. The first night I was worried that Mia would smell it and decide it was a tasty treat. |
| mandy |
they........mine was too for a year or so. I have feeling there now. It came back. I was surprised. |
| Spacemonkey | | posted 3-Feb-2000 12:53am |
I never had stitches in the medical sense but this survey is so stupid it has me in stitches because I am laughing at how dumb it is. |
| bill |
*hands Spacemonkey a Spacebanana* |
| Enheduanna |
Bye bye stitches...all gone... |
| Maarten |
SpaceMonkey: Why is it stupid to ask if someone ever had stitches? |
| SueBee |
I'm wondering the same thing, Spacemonkey...what do you think is dumb about it? I think it's interesting hearing about other people's experiences. |
| Jane |
I put no, but I just remembered that I actually did get stitches once when I had a mole removed off my back. I just forgot because I was thinking more along the lines of injury stitches, which I've never needed. (I have no idea how many stitches I had in my back) |
| bluebird1974 | | posted 8-Feb-2000 12:46pm |
in my toe and my chin i am not sure how manyoh also in my mouth after having wisdom teeth removed |
| Renee | | posted 10-Feb-2000 7:23am |
when i was 3 i fell on some bleachers and put a nice gash in my left eyebrow...three stitches. to this day i still have a tiny little area where the hair just refuses to grow. |
| Bret | | posted 18-Feb-2000 10:10am |
when i was about three or four my cousin told me to squirt my uncle with and ink gun he had given me for christmas so when i did he started chasing me and i ran right into the rear view mirror of a car |
| kirst | | posted 22-Feb-2000 6:55am |
Yes, once in my mouth after having wisdom teeth removed and once in my chest after my left lung collapsed. |
| Adiliyo | | posted 22-Feb-2000 3:09pm |
6 i think, on my head |
| Weezie |
i have had three places on my body stiched. first one is on my left middle finger (5 stiches). second over my right eye.on the forehead. (6 stiches) and the last one was on my left ear (7 stiches) |
| Enheduanna |
I'm kind of disappointed that my wound is healing so well--it doesn't look like I'm going to have much of a scar to flaunt.  Damned regenerative finger tissue... |
| SueBee | | posted 19-Mar-2000 6:25pm |
You could always try lopping one clean off. That would be quite noticeable. |
| mandy | | posted 19-Mar-2000 8:16pm |
WE have GOT to watch The Piano again.... |
Strider  | | posted 23-Mar-2000 11:20pm |
Don't Know how many but I got them when I had an operation when I was younger. |
| kneesocks | | posted 11-Apr-2000 12:24am |
My right knee. I fell in the schoolyard when I was a kid. |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 14-Apr-2000 8:30am |
When I was 8. 7 stitches in my elbow, heading back home on my bicycle from a friend of my mother's from her ARE group (association research & enlightenment (Edgar Cayce)) I smacked into the nose cone shaped taillight of an old plymouth. I recently had a bike accident as well. A 1920 saxophone I bought shattered the mirror of a new blazer. So how integrated are theology, linguistics, & the particle group at bu? |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 14-Apr-2000 8:36am |
Oh wait, I had my second stitches just 4 month ago. I had a bb removed form my temple that had been there for 20 years, so I could get an MRI. |
| Zang | | posted 25-May-2000 12:38am |
Some in my lip, some in my eye brow. I am hopeless at remembering numbers. |
| anonymous |
I had my spleen removed and the stiches were inside, and the doctors put some kind of tape-like substance on the surface so there would not be a real awful scar |
| mandy | | (reply to anonymous) posted 2-Jun-2000 7:56pm |
spleen? |
| SueBee | | (reply to mandy) posted 10-Jun-2000 6:21pm |
Settle down, spleen queen. |
| SueBee | | posted 17-Jun-2000 2:05pm |
I almost forgot about the Frankenstein scars on the sides of my feet from having bone spurs removed as a teenager. |
