Sorry for not posting more yesterday, but I had my head slammed in a car door (don’t ask!) and got a concussion and didn’t feel like writing. Let me start off today with a pictorial story from “a young lady from Chicago-land” and her earlobe tearing misadventures in the Ukraine involving stitching… I’m actually not convinced this needed to be stitched (I think it would have healed on its own, personally), but I’m not about to look a gift horse in the mouth!
This story is in her own words — continue reading to see what happened.
“Adventures in doing laundry: As I hopped down from the chair I was standing on to hang laundry, my rounded horse-shoe piercing (it had one smallish ball and one biggish ball on it) got caught on the wire clothes-line on my Ukrainian balcony. My ear was tearing as the piercing was actually bending (skin is strong!) and then the back ball (luckily, the smaller ball!) exploded through my ear and out came the piercing. The tear was only in the front of the lobe. The ball took a tiny ring of flesh with it, but otherwise the back was undamaged.”
Inset: “What the ring looked like before it bent on the wire, and after… I can’t believe how strong human flesh is! Oh, and don’t mind the little bit of my flesh.”
“Ew, a bit of grit in there!”
“Yeah, um, Ukranian hospitals? No thanks. I’d heard nothing but horror stories all week from my students, and then this. I went with what my dad taught me: Superglue fixes everything. The arrow indicates the end of the tear. It looks good, but actually, I screwed up by getting glue into the tear too, so, eventually, it would all come out in a plug and I’d be back to square one. The piercing is tilted up, btw, to maintain the hole without possibly getting pulled on and opening the tear again. Smart, huh?”
“Sure enough, three days later, the superglue all came out and off, leaving the cut wide open again. Nope, still, not going to a Ukrainian hospital. You know, the one time I was in one, an angry nurse chastised me for my piercings and told me that because I had piercings, I would have deformed children! Time for self-done stitches.”
“I actually didn’t mean to make the stitch so wide like that. In retrospect, I think it was good though, because the first and middle stitch was really secure and then the top and bottom stitches didn’t go through as much flesh.”
“Three stitches (the top and the bottom weren’t as deep as the middle). It looks irritated but it’s just camera contrast — it looked great. My roommates were impressed.”
Left: “Immediately after removing the stitches (left them in for six days)” and Right: “Three days after removing the stitches. Yay! I’m a doctor now. It’s not the first time I’ve given myself stitches in fact…”
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168 responses to “Torn Earlobe and DIY stitch repair”
thats damn impressive!
thats damn impressive!
thats damn impressive!
DIY to the max. Bien.
DIY to the max. Bien.
DIY to the max. Bien.
“I’m not about to look a gift horse in the mouth”
Never knew that was an expression in English as well. We say the exact same thing in Dutch (een gegeven paard niet in de bek kijken”.
Impressive result!
If i ever need stitches, i’ll let her do mine too.
“I’m not about to look a gift horse in the mouth”
Never knew that was an expression in English as well. We say the exact same thing in Dutch (een gegeven paard niet in de bek kijken”.
Impressive result!
If i ever need stitches, i’ll let her do mine too.
“I’m not about to look a gift horse in the mouth”
Never knew that was an expression in English as well. We say the exact same thing in Dutch (een gegeven paard niet in de bek kijken”.
Impressive result!
If i ever need stitches, i’ll let her do mine too.
impressive work!
#3 – we use the same expression in swedish as well (man skådar inte given häst i munnen)
impressive work!
#3 – we use the same expression in swedish as well (man skådar inte given häst i munnen)
impressive work!
#3 – we use the same expression in swedish as well (man skådar inte given häst i munnen)
She tried to superglue her ear? That’s what I understood, and doesn’t sound too good.
She tried to superglue her ear? That’s what I understood, and doesn’t sound too good.
She tried to superglue her ear? That’s what I understood, and doesn’t sound too good.
very impressive, but not all ukranian hospitals are horrible backwards places….Foretunately for ukraine
very impressive, but not all ukranian hospitals are horrible backwards places….Foretunately for ukraine
very impressive, but not all ukranian hospitals are horrible backwards places….Foretunately for ukraine
#3,4 – We have the same in Hungarian as well! (Ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát)
Very impressive work, well done.
#3,4 – We have the same in Hungarian as well! (Ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát)
Very impressive work, well done.
#3,4 – We have the same in Hungarian as well! (Ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát)
Very impressive work, well done.
Wow, she did a really nice job! As for the superglue, my mother once cut her hand really badly while doing dishes and hitting a knife, well the doctors superglued bandaids to her hand so they would hold the cut together instead of stitches I guess….
Wow, she did a really nice job! As for the superglue, my mother once cut her hand really badly while doing dishes and hitting a knife, well the doctors superglued bandaids to her hand so they would hold the cut together instead of stitches I guess….
Wow, she did a really nice job! As for the superglue, my mother once cut her hand really badly while doing dishes and hitting a knife, well the doctors superglued bandaids to her hand so they would hold the cut together instead of stitches I guess….
Did the word ‘flesh’ bother anyone else but me?
Did the word ‘flesh’ bother anyone else but me?
Did the word ‘flesh’ bother anyone else but me?
#3,4,7 – To complete the collection: We use the same expression here in germany (Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul)
Appenently superglue does not fix everything. I wonder if anybody had success with this method 😉
#3,4,7 – To complete the collection: We use the same expression here in germany (Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul)
Appenently superglue does not fix everything. I wonder if anybody had success with this method 😉
#3,4,7 – To complete the collection: We use the same expression here in germany (Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul)
Appenently superglue does not fix everything. I wonder if anybody had success with this method 😉
Wow, that is impressive! I applied stick-on butterfly stitches to my thumb once when I sliced it really badly, but I was too chicken to actually sew it together. It healed fine anyway – the stick-on bandaid things held it together quite well.
Wow, that is impressive! I applied stick-on butterfly stitches to my thumb once when I sliced it really badly, but I was too chicken to actually sew it together. It healed fine anyway – the stick-on bandaid things held it together quite well.
Wow, that is impressive! I applied stick-on butterfly stitches to my thumb once when I sliced it really badly, but I was too chicken to actually sew it together. It healed fine anyway – the stick-on bandaid things held it together quite well.
it’s really impressive! i guess going to an ukrainian hospital would have left you with a bigger scar.. or maybe you’d have been lucky? who knows.
#3,4,7 – we have the same in Polish (Darowanemu koniowi nie zagląda się w zęby), 😛
it’s really impressive! i guess going to an ukrainian hospital would have left you with a bigger scar.. or maybe you’d have been lucky? who knows.
#3,4,7 – we have the same in Polish (Darowanemu koniowi nie zagląda się w zęby), 😛
it’s really impressive! i guess going to an ukrainian hospital would have left you with a bigger scar.. or maybe you’d have been lucky? who knows.
#3,4,7 – we have the same in Polish (Darowanemu koniowi nie zagląda się w zęby), 😛
#3,4,7 – the same in Slovenia (Podarjenemu konju se ne gleda v zobe…) “nekaj takega”
#3,4,7 – the same in Slovenia (Podarjenemu konju se ne gleda v zobe…) “nekaj takega”
#3,4,7 – the same in Slovenia (Podarjenemu konju se ne gleda v zobe…) “nekaj takega”
I always thought duct tape fixed everything …
I always thought duct tape fixed everything …
I always thought duct tape fixed everything …
#3, 4, 7, 10, 12 and 13 Swedish: “skåda aldrig given häst i munnen”
#3, 4, 7, 10, 12 and 13 Swedish: “skåda aldrig given häst i munnen”
#3, 4, 7, 10, 12 and 13 Swedish: “skåda aldrig given häst i munnen”
Neat stitches…I know I couldn’t do it, with weird angles n all 🙂
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rofl @ everyone talking about the expression, almost more then about the ear. If 3 hadn’t posted it though, I would have 😛
Neat stitches…I know I couldn’t do it, with weird angles n all 🙂
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rofl @ everyone talking about the expression, almost more then about the ear. If 3 hadn’t posted it though, I would have 😛
Neat stitches…I know I couldn’t do it, with weird angles n all 🙂
n
rofl @ everyone talking about the expression, almost more then about the ear. If 3 hadn’t posted it though, I would have 😛
amazing!! hats off
amazing!! hats off