What's new

Pad Patter: 9/10 - Stitches

Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

A hundred jobs but Bob Villa ain't one
Joined
Feb 25, 2011
Messages
8,026
Mine are out! :woot

Aside from child birth, have you ever had stitches? I've had them twice, once in each eyebrow. I did almost the same exact thing to my eye in 1985, only far more embarrassingly. I was walking across the gym with the water bottles for the soccer game. Instead of looking where I was going, I was watching the boys bball team practice. And walked right into the volleyball net pole, which just happened to have a screw sticking out right where my eyebrow was.

Exactly as it was with this one, it barely hurt and I just tried to carry on like nothing happened. Until someone else on the team was like "um... your eye?" and I realized blood was pouring out.

Only 2 stitches that time, though. This one was 5. Old age, I guess. At least now I match!

But, those are the only 2 times I've had to be stitched up aside from baby day(s).
 
I've never had to have stitches, except when I had Lane. When I had Colton, I got staples.

Lane busted his head on a desk in Kindy and we thought he would need stitches. The doctor used glue on it. :/ He's got a pretty decent scar and 11 years later, I almost wish I had insisted on stitches. Back then, though, he was my only kiddo and I was by myself at the ER and I was pretty hysterical. I'm surprised the doctor didn't dope me to shush me!
 
Considering how clutzy I've always been, the fact that I only had stitches once before my kids is amazing! I don't remember it but split my chin open walking across slippery cement. Tough to see the stitches under there.

I'm glad you are getting closer to feeling 100%, Angie.
 
Yep - my right third toe after a bedframe that was propped up in the corner fell on it, my left pinkie finger after I broke a bowl, and my right index finger after John accidentally sliced it with a knife while cutting prime rib (that was a fun, Christmas Day ER trip, BTW).
 
NEVER. Although last year when I slammed my finger in the sliding van door I was sure that I would need them - but glue did the trick.
 
Oh, I'm getting queasy just reading this. :dizzy

I had stitches in second or third grade after I whacked my head on the ground trying to do a particular flip over a low bar (former teeter-totter support) on my school playground. The stitches were on top of my head, so we couldn't really wash my hair, and it was a mess. A boy I had a crush on told me I looked like a bloody rabbit. :thumbsups :giggle

The really embarrassing part? I had done the EXACT same thing the year before, just wasn't injured badly enough to need stitches that time. Gives new meaning to being thick-headed. :whistle
 
4 c-sections...and then when I was quite young (6'ish) I ran behind my dad when he was playing horseshoes while we were on vacation up in the mountains. I got a nice big gash right in the middle of my forehead. They had to take me to a little country doc and she had to put me out I was screaming and kicking so hard. It was just her...no help...I remember it like it was yesterday.
 
Not counting surgeries I've had stitches 3 times...the first time I don't remember, but I was two and fell with a glass and almost cut my thumb off (the doc said there was no way I would be able to use my left thumb, but I'm stubborn and showed him..i'm left handed so that probably helped a bit). I have a huge scar on my hand and I still look at it in amazement when I think about it on a two year old's hand. I was definitely lucky.

When I was 6 I was dancing in the kitchen and fell against a cabinet door...nobody even realized (including me) how bad it was until I went outside to help my dad with something and it started raining and I came inside..mom told me that blood was just streaming down my face, I remember getting those stitches out more than getting them put in...the doc used some sort of new adhesive that was supposed to hold the stitches down and it hurt like a booger when he took them out.

The third time I was about 8 and was wading in a ditch after a big rain (something I was totally forbidden to do by the way...one of my few acts of rebellion..lol) and stepped on a piece of glass. I had to walk on the side of my foot until the cut healed...it was such a weird sensation being able to walk normally again once the stitches were taken out.
 
Nope...no stitches and no broken bones..except a toe! I've been on crutches a few times but no injuries where I needed stitches.
 
4noisyboys said:
4 c-sections...and then when I was quite young (6'ish) I ran behind my dad when he was playing horseshoes while we were on vacation up in the mountains. I got a nice big gash right in the middle of my forehead. They had to take me to a little country doc and she had to put me out I was screaming and kicking so hard. It was just her...no help...I remember it like it was yesterday.
Click to expand...

Ouch!
 
Ugh! I was a total clutz as a kid. I tripped going up some cement stairs at the church picnic when I was about 5. Thunk. Didn't even realize that my eyebrow was gaping open until the adults around me started to freak out. LOL! It didn't even hurt to get the stitches and the nurses were lavishing gifts on me because I didn't cry.

I've also broken bones and had surgeries, too but that was the only real stitches only incident.

Glad you got your stitches out!
 
i had a couple staples in my head when i was a little girl..I was jumping on the bed, fell off and bumped my head..just like the song, which the doctor sang to me as he was stapling my head back together, by the way! lol
 
Last edited:
Angie4b1g said:
OMG!!
Click to expand...

Totally my fault - I was trying to steady the cutting board, and I shifted my hand at the last minute, just as he brought the knife down. I made him and my parents sit down and eat while I drove myself to the ER :)
 
I had an accident changing the sheets of my loft bed my sophomore year of college. I was trying to pull the sheets off the bed frame and pulled the whole thing up onto myself and I fell. One of the screws sticking out on the side of the loft sliced up my arm. I needed 14 stitches. The fall also knocked me out. An ambulance came and the whole thing was incredibly embarrassing. I still have a large faded scar on the inside of my left arm.
 
Interesting stories, it's a wonder we don't spend more time getting stitched up...

I worked in a large kitchen when I was young and was cleaning the (very sharp) meat slicer, you know the round blades like they have in delis, slipped and sliced a nice big bit off the side of my finger. Blade was so sharp I didn't feel it at first, just saw lots of blood and then I felt it!

Have had lots of moles off as well- so heaps of scars all over, worst was just under one eye - looked like I'd been in a fight...
 
No stitches for accidents.

Three stitches from a skin biopsy.

One stitch when my 9 pounder was born. Thank God for a great doula. It could have been sooooo much worse.
 
Oh yipes.

No stitches for accidents for me either. Yes (lots) for childbirth.
 
Nope, no stitches. (except during childbirth, still ****ed I got the episiotomy the first time since I DID NOT WANT--6lb 7oz baby. Second time, ONE stitch for a 9lb 3oz baby, thank the midwife!)

However, ask my brother. He was the stupid accident king of our house.
 
Back
Top