Seth's new body ornamentation

[Sethomas]

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Coming from a family with lots of medical experience/qualifications/connections, it seemed totally stupid that I should have to get the sutures removed by a hospital nurse. They said it'd be 14 days before I should have them taken out, which today was the 14th day. I figured I'd wait until I next see my RN mother, my MD/MPH sister, or my RN aunt and have one of THEM take it out. It seemed to work out well because my parents need to work on stuff here at the family property I maintain this weekend anyways, and if I needed a doctor to look at it then my sister has the entire month of April off from work.

Instead, my sister decides that she'll have a cosmetic surgery performed on her as a way to begin her vacation. Two hours of anesthesia for her to have a lump of fat removed from her scalp that isn't even visible. My mother decided that these harrowing two hours will necessitate her motherly presence, so she went off to Manhattan to provide it for a week. Since my sister shares an apartment in Brooklyn with my cousin (even though she has a room in Manhattan half the time anyways), my RN aunt decided that she needed to visit the Big Apple at this time as well, perhaps to maintain cosmic balance.

Then my sister's going to the Dominican Republic for two weeks or some shit.

So, yeah. It seems likely that I'll just take the stitches out all by myself. That seemed like a scary thought to me until I looked at it this morning and realized that two of them fell out entirely in my sleep. When I was at work today, I looked down and found that the only one that looked like it was still bearing a functional tension had snapped and I had to pull it out with my left hand. For whatever reason, the cut in this area is more pronounced now than it was last week. This implies inflammation which implies infection which implies that I'm fucked, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It does mean that the scar is going to be more unsightly than predicted, I guess.