As some of you may know, I had an operation on my toes 10 days ago which meant having stitches.
I thought someone (nurse or doctor) said the stitches were to come out in 10 days but I haven't had an appointment sent.
Just looking on my discharge paper it says,
Discharged home on simple analgesia with F/U in Nurse led wound R/V clinic in 10/7 Mr (name of surgeon) OPD clinic in 4/52.
I can tell you what F/U meant in the Police - but I doubt it is the same thing!
Perhaps by that logic 10/7 does mean 10 days - when I had a decompressive metatarsal osteotomy for arthritis in my toes I think it was about 10 days for the stitches and a check up at the clinic after a month, maybe R?V is return visit?
"Discharged home on simple analgesia, with Follow-Up (F/U) in Nurse led wound r/v (recovery?) clinic in 10 days (10/7).
Further appt to see surgeon in their Out-Patients Department (OPD) clinic in 4 weeks (4/52)
So the stitches should have come out today then?
Suppose I'd better phone them on Monday although I'm not sure who to phone apart from the ward I was in.
I have had stiches were there is a piece of 'cat gut' hanging out , after a week or so the hanging bit just drops off like a dried up scab. It has not been actual 'cat gut'for decades now by the way.
Read this the 3rd paragraph , actual 'cat gut' is banned as there is concern it could spread 'mad cow disease' . It never was actual gut from a cat , imagine the debate about cats being bred and slaughtered just to make surtures or 'Stitches' , it was the gut from cows that had been slaughtered for meat.
\\Very few stitches need to be removed now. They are normally the ones that dissolve themselves.\\\
not true......non absorbable sutures are routinely used for skin closure as they give a better cosmetic result than do absorbable sutures. Absorbable skin sutures MAY be used but not as commonly as non-absorbable.