I just went and got stitches on my finger and the nurse was giving me grief about it because this is about the 5th time in the past year that I have had to go in for stitches and 4 of those times have been on the same hand (one time was just above the eye).

Got me wondering, how often do you guys get cuts bad enough for stitches, and what is the most you have gotten at one time.

The most I have gotten at one time is 78 and that was in my tongue (got hit in the mouth with a baseball.

On the bright side, my tetnus shot is always kept up to date.

 

i've only had stitches once. it was many years ago though. I had to get 3 stitches right above my left eye.

 

haha I don't get stitches that often actually, only twice in my life, but I have broke 9 bones the most stiches was 13 in my upper lip, when I also go hit in the mouth with a baseball.

 

About 20 years ago I cut my thumb with piece of sheet metal requiring 6 stitches. Since then, nothing requiring sutures.

 

I've never gotten stitches and I've never had a broken bone set. (I kinda sorta broke a couple of toes, but just uh... let them heal... ) But I have some friends who've required stitches. Most recently, a friend of mine got mad and punched a solid wood door. Yep, smart cookie... broke a knuckle and some random other things and got I think 5 stitches. Even with the cast he used to work on his car though... that thing was so dirty by the time he went in for his follow-up!! I know a couple of guys who used pocket knives to remove in-grown toe nails (including the guy above, except he didn't quite make it and had to go to the hospital anyway). Why is it that you guys seem to need emergency care on speed dial??

 

seven stitches in my foot age 4 seven stitches in left leg age 14 two stitches above eye age 22 seventeen staples in head age 35 three stitches in left knee age 37.(installed by girlfriend) hospital visits are lengthy and expensive, I now carry suterkits and medical staplers in my first aid kit.

 

I haven't had a lot of stitches (eye lid, chin, foot, thumb)), but I have broken my nose three times and had three front teeth knocked out (it is hard to understand how I have remained so incredibly handsome). Last stitches were when my thumb got into my table saw.
Dono

 

6 stitches below my eye @ 5yrs. old. Various stictches here and there for minor stuff (can't really remember) until I was 15 and got smacked by a car doing 55. I broke all kinds of ****, but as far as stitches go... 14 in upper lip to sew it back togehter (looks fine now. you'd never know) 104 stitches in left arm to sew up glass cuts and hyper extension skin tears. I don't know how many stitches they used to sew my right bicep back together (couldn't count cuz they were inside my arm) but they used 86 surgical staples to patch the skin back together over top of it. Another few negligible sttches on other cuts here and there (12 over a cut on my neck that was just barely shallow enough to miss my jugular vein). 74 surgical staples to patch the skin back together over my compound fratured left tibia/fibula. It was so f&$#ed up that they had to thread the pieces of bone back together with a titanium rod like a shishkebob (spelling?). That was it for that accidient.

5 years later (20) I was working construction and cut my wrist on a piece of metal roofing - 7 stitches. That one looked real freaky; it was -20 something with the windchill that day, so when I cut it, it didn't bleed right away, and I had plenty of time to look at the inside of my arm. Red vessels, blue veins, pink muscle, white tendons, some other yellowish stuff. I never knew the inside of my arm was so colorful! Gross.

Tore my ACL in my left knee skiing while doing some ridiculous arial acrobatics. I had succesfully pulled a double-daffy and a spread eagle on the run before, and was sure I could ad an edge grab to that to make it a quadruple combo. Wrong. I'd wiped out countless times before learning new tricks (everybody does), but the jump we were hitting really launched you (hence the air time for a succesful triple combo) and when I tried that last edge grab I didn't quite get out of it and landed with my legs out to my right. I hit HARD, spun around, and in the middle of a really spectacular yard sale my left ski tip stuck into the snow and I spun around it. Not good. By the way, a 'yard sale' is a wreck where you go tumbling down the hill for a long distance flopping all over the place and losing all your *****. At the end, you look back up the hill and see a ski here, a pole over there, a hat somewhere, possibly a glove or two scattered down.... hence the name yard sale. It looks like you've got your stuff all spread out to sell. Aaaannnyway, I had to have surgery to replace my ACL, and I had umpteen surgical staples from that. Surprisingly I don't remember how many exactly... normally I count them.

6 years after that (26) I landed upside down off a jump on my motocross bike and needed 8 stitches in my left shoulder (tore my AC (Acromioclavicular) ligament lose but didn't opt to fix it right then).

8 years after that (28) I had a real doozie of a motorcycle wreck (80+mph) when I hit something in the road in the middle of a turn. I had 15 stitches in my left side (only skin deep), 22 stitches on my right shoulder for a cut, and 13 surgical staples up the front of me where they sliced my abdomen open to fix an internal bleed. Also 25 staples up my spine where they cut me open to fix my dislocated T-11 vertebrae and my shattered T-12 vertebrae with rods and screws and a pedical brace (ties the two rods together).

Now I run a wheelchair full time (probably always will), so the extra stress on my arms and shoulders has taken a toll on that injury from the motocross accident. I started playing wheelchair basketball and got into handcycles (looks like a recumbent but you pedal with your hands/arms), so I'm sure that didn't help either. So last fall I had that fixed and that one was sewed up surprisingly neat! The doc sewed the incision together under the skin, so there were only four ends sitcking out (two at each end tied together). When the nurse removed them, she just snipped one, pulled it out (it was about 3" long), and likewise for the other. Pretty neat. I guess they sewed it together open, and then pulled the ends like shoelaces to tighten it up, and knotted them so they'd stay. Outstanding technique if I do say so myself.

Id like to say that's it forever, but I know myself too well. Yeah I know I'm accident prone but I have never let that stop me from living life to the fullest. An uncured unrepented adrenaline junkie. I've already got a hand controlled dune buggy (can't use my legs) and am having a blast with that. It's an '85 Honda Odyssey (NOT the minivan). Honda made them from '79 to '85 and then they made a spinoff called the Pilot in '89 and '90. Awesome ATVs. They came stock with all hand controls so you don't have to use your feet at all. I just tore it down last fall before my shoulder surgery to soup it up. Bigger carb, custom air intake, ported and polished block, flowed and stuffed reed cage with Boyesen reeds, Triple E ceramic coated exhaust, new clutch and drive belt, bigger rear tires. I'm about half done putting it back together and am looking forward to finishing it when my shoulder is well enough and I have time. I'm in school full time (went back after my accident) and have very little extra time these days. Good thing I snipped away half an hour writing this eh?!

Wish me luck! Actually, tell me to break a leg, that'd be better. I wouldn't feel it anyway.. LMFAO

 

Over the span of my life time, I recieved almost 300 of them. The most at once...102.

Accident prone maybe?????

 

4 of them, two on each eye. More specifically they were holding the muscles that move your eye onto the eyball itself.

 

spnrgy-

I'm awestruck. And also curious who your health insurance provider is.

 

5 stitches on my arm from a dog bite at age 12. Age 15 had 5 in my lower lip from a fall. Age 21 got 2 in my thumb from a set of wire cutters. Age 22 got 3 in my arm for falling in a creek.

Total : 15

 

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spnrgy-

I'm awestruck. And also curious who your health
Insurance provider is."""

Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, and before that I don't remember, BCBCS of NC for the lqast 8 years. pay 186/mo. for health insurance. Not bad eh?!

 

"Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, and before that I don't remember, BCBCS of NC for the lqast 8 years. pay 186/mo. for health insurance. Not bad eh?!"
Unbelievable. I'll give ya one thing- you've got guts and attitude enough for a couple of the rest of us.

 

I've had several deep cuts and punctures worthy of stitches, but that's what they made superglue for.