A pair of *oma updates

If you recall my recent post about Morton’s Neuroma, you’ll be happy to hear that the pain from the treatment has subsided, and the pain from the neuroma also seems lessened.

In short, the borderline-excruciating treatment was actually worth it. I’m walking without favoring the foot now. It still pinches a bit when I run or stand tippy-toe, but it feels like the cortizone is doing its job.

This almost certainly means I’m due for another excruciating, limp-inducing shot in January, and perhaps again in February. Repeated cortizone treatments seem to be indicated if the first one is effective.

If you recall my slightly more recent post about the lipoma in my arm, you’ll be happy to hear that the stitches are driving me crazy, and I’m half-ready to pull them out myself. There’s no way I’m waiting until a week from Monday to have them removed. They keep rubbing on my clothing and my bedsheets, irritating me and irritating the wound (which is a healthy shade of pink, and not oozing one little bit.)

I’ll probably go after them with tweezers, an X-Acto blade, and a dental pick (these tools for working on miniatures are so dang handy) sometime on Tuesday. Don’t tell Doctor Harline. I don’t think he reads this blog yet, so I should be able to get away with it.

26 thoughts on “A pair of *oma updates”

  1. why don’t you just put a bandaid [or duct tape, if you prefer] over the stitches so they don’t catch on clothing? actually i hear that medical tape called “second skin” or something is quite good for that. my dad puts it over where his insulin pump goes into his skin, and it never catches on his clothes. he’s have problems if it did.

    i misread the name as Doctor Hairline, and had a mental image of the EMH from V’ger. heh.

  2. why don’t you just put a bandaid [or duct tape, if you prefer] over the stitches so they don’t catch on clothing? actually i hear that medical tape called “second skin” or something is quite good for that. my dad puts it over where his insulin pump goes into his skin, and it never catches on his clothes. he’s have problems if it did.

    i misread the name as Doctor Hairline, and had a mental image of the EMH from V’ger. heh.

  3. I’m a little surprised they used stitches instead of steri-strips. In any event, you shouldn’t remove them until your doc says to…having the wound open up is a Bad Thing. Put a bandage over the stitches if they’re bothering you.

  4. I’m a little surprised they used stitches instead of steri-strips. In any event, you shouldn’t remove them until your doc says to…having the wound open up is a Bad Thing. Put a bandage over the stitches if they’re bothering you.

  5. I should point out that the reason I’m not currently wearing a bandage is that the bandage the doctor provided fell off, and I seem to have developed an allergy to the cheap ones we have in the house.

    The alternative is gauze and medical tape. We have both of those.

  6. I should point out that the reason I’m not currently wearing a bandage is that the bandage the doctor provided fell off, and I seem to have developed an allergy to the cheap ones we have in the house.

    The alternative is gauze and medical tape. We have both of those.

  7. A small pair of wire cutters do a good job on stitches, and superglue=second skin if it’s pulling apart. I to tend to react poorly to medical tape, I cut the end off of a tube sock and used that to hold a bandage on my arm once.

  8. A small pair of wire cutters do a good job on stitches, and superglue=second skin if it’s pulling apart. I to tend to react poorly to medical tape, I cut the end off of a tube sock and used that to hold a bandage on my arm once.

  9. The doc had me use Telfa pads and micropore tape. It worked quite well and was comfortable.

    I’m glad to have the stiches out of my chest and left ear. Now I’m lust supposed to keep my left ear bandaged for another five weeks. I’m rapidly becoming an expert at bandaging the back of my left ear. Not really a skill that I had any particular interest in learning.

    1. I’ll have to find that — I recently had a thingumboboma removed from my shoulder, and in the week or two before the stitches came out, my body decided that it was going to develop an allergy to medical adhesive. And that was WITH switching out between two or three different kinds of dressing.

  10. The doc had me use Telfa pads and micropore tape. It worked quite well and was comfortable.

    I’m glad to have the stiches out of my chest and left ear. Now I’m lust supposed to keep my left ear bandaged for another five weeks. I’m rapidly becoming an expert at bandaging the back of my left ear. Not really a skill that I had any particular interest in learning.

    1. I’ll have to find that — I recently had a thingumboboma removed from my shoulder, and in the week or two before the stitches came out, my body decided that it was going to develop an allergy to medical adhesive. And that was WITH switching out between two or three different kinds of dressing.

  11. With all honor to your spirit of self-reliance, and I’m glad it’s healing nicely … but PLEASE do not remove those stitches prematurely.

    You saw the sort of manipulations your doctor made to those tissues. Your arm has not recovered from that in only these few days. It still needs the structural support those stitches provide.

    Other posters have made excellent suggestions on coping with the irritation, so I shan’t repeat those.

    Good luck.

  12. With all honor to your spirit of self-reliance, and I’m glad it’s healing nicely … but PLEASE do not remove those stitches prematurely.

    You saw the sort of manipulations your doctor made to those tissues. Your arm has not recovered from that in only these few days. It still needs the structural support those stitches provide.

    Other posters have made excellent suggestions on coping with the irritation, so I shan’t repeat those.

    Good luck.

  13. Confundous says, “He who removes stitches before their appointed time sometimes ends up with newly opened wound.”

    **swats hand***

    Now leave that alone. It may be done on top, but there is no telling how well it is knitted underneath. At least not until it opens up.

  14. Confundous says, “He who removes stitches before their appointed time sometimes ends up with newly opened wound.”

    **swats hand***

    Now leave that alone. It may be done on top, but there is no telling how well it is knitted underneath. At least not until it opens up.

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