Got the stitches out !!

Well I went to the doctor today and got the stitches out of my knee....and boy was I a baby.  This really cracks my dh up, don't know why I told him.  I thought I was gonna faint, I was so nauseous when the nurse was taking them out, now mind you I can take them out of other folks, was a EMT first responder for 10 years, have done CPR on a wreck victim,,,,you know all kinds of gory stuff and I almost faint from getting two little stitches taken out.  It is really funny, I can't stand to watch them do anything to me draw blood, etc but I can do it to anyone else.  I have to do 3 exercises and if I feel no stiffness in the next 6 weeks, I don't have to do PT.  I guess it is self imposed PT, so you better bet I will do it.  I am getting around on one crutch ok early in the day, but later I am so tired and it hurts worse so I use both crutches.   I still am coughing alot and have a runny nose but for the most part I think the bronchitis is gone from me and dh.  We do sound like two bird dogs getting ready for the field trials at Grand Junction though.  Thats how you will be able to identify us at the Christmas party.   Enough rambling for tonite.  darlene

Bless your heart, they weren't staples? I don't mind them, glad you are on the road to recovery. Hugz Barb

Isn't that funny?! I'm the same way.  I give myself my semi-monthly B12 injection with no problem. But I almost passed ou****ching a nurse inject medication into my dad's IV port a few years ago. She wasn't even injecting him. It was his IV port for crying out loud! I have removed stitches from myself and other people. But I can'****ch someone else remove them from me. I've delivered a friend's baby in a home birth. But felt faint when I saw a friend in pain from taking too big of a swallow of water right after her surgery. Call me a wuss. Glad to hear you're feeling better.