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Offline CreamPuff63

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Re: The Thread killer
« Reply #255 on: September 14, 2012, 08:35:20 am »
Wish I never ate that packet of jelly beans cos they made me feel sick  :-\
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« Reply #256 on: September 14, 2012, 09:22:18 am »
Didn't you save me any CP :( :(
I child-proofed my house, but they still get in!

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« Reply #257 on: September 14, 2012, 09:38:16 am »
I could have warned you about that CP :-))

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« Reply #258 on: September 14, 2012, 10:47:26 am »
2 glasses of wine will make you feel better CP will have to be a dry one though
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« Reply #259 on: September 15, 2012, 11:03:46 am »
Just got home from a thermothingy demo

GO THE EAGLES
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« Reply #260 on: September 15, 2012, 01:17:26 pm »
Was the demo good Sue? :D

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« Reply #261 on: September 16, 2012, 12:34:09 am »
Yes, sold 3 to good friends of mine.
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« Reply #262 on: September 16, 2012, 12:37:09 am »
Good work! ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #263 on: September 16, 2012, 12:40:45 am »
I didn't demonstrate gave that up last year but I have friends that are interested. I just organised.
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« Reply #264 on: September 16, 2012, 04:56:23 am »
I tried to change my own dressing yesterday. DW is useless at these things. Any how when I started  to ease the top dressing off some of the steri strips were stuck to the dressing. :( Lazy bugger surgeon didn't use stitches.

I had to re-stick the old dressing back down. I wish I had one of our nurse members here to assist me.

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« Reply #265 on: September 16, 2012, 05:21:09 am »
when I started  to ease the top dressing off some of the steri strips were stuck to the dressing. :( Lazy bugger surgeon didn't use stitches.

I had to re-stick the old dressing back down. I wish I had one of our nurse members here to assist me.

In the end steri strips may leave a neater scar - provided that they are strong enough to keep the wound closed. I sliced a finger open on Easter Sunday. The doctor I visited steri stripped rather than stitched. Wound fell open a few times which was annoying but I think it's probably a neater scar because I don't have the little holes from the stitches surrounding it although it is perhaps wider than it might have been if there were stitches.

Hope it heals well for you. I visited another doctor a few days later who kindly stuck the wound back together for me. From then on I could do it myself.

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« Reply #266 on: September 16, 2012, 07:58:47 am »
DD, you can buy steri strips from the chemist. Just make sure that the two edges of the skin are put together as neat as possible (don't leave a gap and don't overlap) before applying fresh steri strips.
Don't want an ugly scar ruining your boyish good looks.  :D

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« Reply #267 on: September 16, 2012, 08:42:12 am »
Don't want an ugly scar ruining your boyish good looks.  :D

That would be devastating ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #268 on: September 17, 2012, 12:39:07 am »
Thanks Michelle. The chemist only had the skinny steri strips and DW couldn't look at the wound site to help me apply them. The edges of the wound are sticking together nicely, the strips are now just keeping it from opening back up.

I went to the a& e at mt local hospital when I hit back home and a lovely nurse redressed it for me.

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« Reply #269 on: September 17, 2012, 06:44:09 am »
That's good DD. Poor DW, some people just can't deal with wounds or any thought of blood.
I can't give myself eyedrops.  :-))