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Monday, October 27, 2003
scars, steristrips & stitches - 09:21 PM
there are only three steristrips left yet to fall off my caesar scar .. & i didn't peel off a single one! well, i did peel them off once one side had come off on its own. there really wasn't much point in leaving on a steristrip attached to only one side of the scar. i was told that i'd get the best (as in, least obvious) scar if i left the steristrips to fall off on their own.
i was inspecting the scar just before & looked again at a weird bit on the right end of it. there was a sort of edge there, as though there was dry, hard skin above & below with the soft pink scar in the middle. however, i looked closer & found that the hard bit could lift out in the middle. each end of it sort of slid out from the skin a bit when i pulled on it. it began to gross me out then, so i stopped playing with it. i'm guessing it's an internal stitch that hasn't dissolved & has worked its way to the surface. it's clear, so i couldn't tell that it wasn't part of the scar at first, it looked skin colour.
i was beginning to feel rather light-headed when i stopped playing with it, so i had to sit on the couch with my head hanging down between my legs to get some blood back to my brain. i don't usually faint easily, actually, i've never fainted all the way, but perhaps that's because i know the signs & take action before it happens. so anyway, i guess sometimes even slightly gross things can make you feel a bit queasy.
i was tempted to keep pulling on the stitch to see if it would slide all the way out, since i didn't even feel any pulling as i moved it, but i had a mental image of the ends of it being attached to some vital organs or something so i decided i should really just leave it alone. with a picture like that in my head, i guess it's not surprising that i was feeling a little faint. 
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