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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Heh, I had to have like 200 stitches removed from when I had my hand crushed and we got snowed in two appointments in a row so I just got scissors and tweezers and went to work.

The best way was every other stitch you cut.

Takes forever if you do them one at a time, but the draggy feeling just gets to be way too much if you go for three.

Makes me shiver just thinking about 3.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The doctor that did my surgery specializes in neck and head cancer. Because cancer sucks enough, he likes to leave no visible scar. I do not know how he does it but the net result is a scar with two tiny knots at each end. To remove, they cut the knots at each end and pull on one side. It leaves a hair thin line of discoloration rather than your typical Frankenstein thick scar with staples or stitch lines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

what does "snowed" mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

When it snows so much that the roads become undrivable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Actual snow from the sky covering the roads till they shut them down