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I went to have the stitches in my left shin removed today.

Actually, I had two wounds. One, seven stitches, in my upper leg and the other, four stitches, a few inches below.

Just about where a drawer sticking out would hit you if you walked into it.

As I did about ten days ago.

A Saturday morning. It was quite dramatic. Bloody.

I went to urgent care where they got it all sewn up.

that is not my leg in the photo. But pretty close. Me? I had two lacerations.

I had already been back there once for a look see. No infection.

Today, the stitches came out. He put a few small bandaids across the big slash just to give it a few more days. I will just let them fall off in the normal course.

It has been a long time since I had anything like this.

I have to say that the Urgent Care facility, a new concept, midway between a doc and a hospital emergency room, works just fine.

I go early and get into the flow first or second. The whole thing takes about an hour. Sign up. Sit for the first doc. Go in and have vitals taken by a nurse. Interview and service with a medico and then out and home. Very good.

I hear the emergency room at the hospital takes forever because it is set up to deal with emergencies and even at its worse, my leg was not emergency material.

It is nice to be healed up, almost.

Labels: health, injury