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missprim | 14:35 Sat 30th Jun 2012 | Body & Soul
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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.

Do you know what this means?
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Could 4/52 be four weeks time?
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I think it does shoota but I don't know what F/U and R/V mean.
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?
possibly R/V = return visit, maybe 10/7 = 10th July
"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)
Stitches out in 10 days Out patient appt to see your surgeon in a month.
Very few stitches need to be removed now. They are normally the ones that dissolve themselves.
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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.
other useful medical abbreviations:

HIVI - Husband is village idiot
DTS - Danger to shipping [for the obese]
TEETH - Tried everything else, try homeopathy

Any of those on your form?
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I think these need to come out Eddie as the surgeon has left longish pieces of cat gut.
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lol jno
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.
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Oh I didn't know that, wonder what it's called now.
Think I had better phone on Monday just to make sure.
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.
4/52 is 4 weeks x
r/v is review
Here is the link I ment to post earlier , sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut_suture
Eddie

\\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.
Probably not true, but I heard one Essex Doctor wrote 'Epping' on someone's notes.

When asked what it meant , he replied 'half way to Barking'.
r/v surely means review. f/u - follow up.
OPD - outpatient department.

If you haven't had the appointment through I would call them.

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