When I was a kid we went to spend a week with my grandparents. I ripped a hole well not a hole more of a line in my foot on the top I dragged it across the bottom of our tent. See the kids were staying in a tent in the backyard. It was so deep I could see bone. I had to have seven stitches. So after it fully healed and I was supposed to go to the doctor to get the stitches out I asked my dad when are we going to take the stitches out he said oh let me see your foot and I showed it to him. He goes oh I can take them out right now and he pulls out a pair of pliers and just pull them out one by one they just popped out like nothing I was like weren’t you supposed to take me to the doctor? He says it’s no big deal you’re fine go play.
At the time I had no clue that he used to be an EMT but it kind of freaked me out and still does to this day even after I found out that he was an EMT. LOL
Nah. We take our own stitches out in my house too. :)
Two exceptions: my spouse had spine surgery and we had the doc take those stitches out, mostly to check the healing. And when my kid had to get staples. Staples require a machine to remove. That had to be done in the office.
All the others, we do at home. (As long as the healing going good). Pets too.
When I had my daughter and I had an emergency C-section I had to be cut from belly button down unlike normal C-sections which is left right and it took 14 Staples the doctor pulled them out with like just with a simple little pincher thing like he just pop each one out As if it was a staple in my finger like the kind that you staple papers together. It was really weird. But then it turned out that I really I should not have gotten the staples removed that day because later in the day my C-section bust open. I had to go to the emergency room. They didn’t give me stitches or anything They just butterfly bandage me and sent me home. I ended up leaking from it For about a week. The doctors did nothing they were like you’re fine my dad looked at me and said you are not fine. By then I knew he was EMT before I was born. I Would have got a better doctor but the next one was in another town I would have to drive out of town just To go to the doctor and the next town was just as bad.
When I had to get my head stapled I just took the staples out myself after it healed. It hurt like a mofo, but after I got the first one out and I realized how to do it, it wasn't so bad.
At the time I had no clue that he used to be an EMT but it kind of freaked me out and still does to this day even after I found out that he was an EMT. LOL
Two exceptions: my spouse had spine surgery and we had the doc take those stitches out, mostly to check the healing. And when my kid had to get staples. Staples require a machine to remove. That had to be done in the office.
All the others, we do at home. (As long as the healing going good). Pets too.