Stitched up!
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If you aren't familiar with them the picture on the right is of surgical staples. You may or may not recall I posted recently that a member of my immediate family had undergone very major surgery, these staples are just five of a scarily large number removed recently from 'the patient'. I say a scarily large number because the incision required was what is termed a 'roof incision', named as such because it is the shape of an apex roof.....and about the same size in this instance! Running in both directions from just below the sternum to just short of each hip bone in a perfect inverted 'V'. If I were to hazard a guess I would say the combined length is somewhere in the the region of 20-24 inches, hence the horribly large number of staples required to close the wound.
So what are they doing here? Well, the patient decided upon removal of said staples, that the care received by the hospital which carried out the surgery was very deserv'ed of a donation of funds by way of a thank you.... and to 'top up' the donation it would be very amusing to 'sell off' the items in question!
The sale proved to be popular, the entire stock selling out in a day with a child of the family even insisting on having the one's 'with bits on', or she wouldn't buy!
...and those in the picture are mine, bought and paid for in full, though quite what I should do with them next is beyond me! ;o)
posted by gemmak @ 6:42 AM
5 Comments:
Well if nothing else your at least prepared should you ever find yourself in need of surgical staples!!
I am intimately acquainted with "Swingline" surgery, as I have a row of sixteen parallel dots down the inside of my left knee.
http://www.acco.com/swingline/
Lastly, I hope the surgery turns out to be successful. Perhaps Lisa has told you about my aunt who had the same operation, with great success.
Now, why the hell didn't I think of selling my staples on e-bay when I had the opportunity? Oh, right, e-bay didn't exist in 1997.
My transplant scar is known as a "Mercedes cut" as the shape looks like a Mercedes-Benz symbol. Of course, for the money it cost for that surgery, my surgeon probably could have gone out and gotten a new Mercedes. Suffice to say it was worth it.
all this makes my appendix scar seem woefully inadequate.
They look like birds flying. Maybe you could mount them on a plaque like a little art project. Makes a better conversation piece than macaroni. :)
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