No more stitches!

Today my professor took me to the local medical center to have my stitches removed. While lots of people offered (and everyone seems to have done it before) I opted to pay the 25 euros to have a nurse do it since its such a weird cut and even weirder looking stitches.

Here is how they have progressed over the past two weeks.

On the 13th the Dr. went back and removed more, hence the growing incision.

Once again, the Irish people were delightful. My favorite part of the experience was when the nurse was filling in the student doctor (who got to practice removing sutures with mine) by saying, “she needs these sutures removed now that it’s been a fortnight.” They were also pretty cute when I asked them if my professor could take pictures while they did it, for an art project. They were confused, but totally fine with it. The nurse even offered to give me the stitches afterwards as a joke, and was delighted when I excitedly took them from her.

The nurse pointing something out to the learning doctor.

I was happy to learn that she removed my stitches with a razor blade only AFTER the procedure was finished.

I have a few ideas for work based on the stitches. Hopefully I’ll figure it out a little more and post about it soon.