Surgery on Myself

Let me start off with what I did yesterday and earlier this week... there's a back story to it so bare with me.

A few months ago I got into a car accident that broke my nose and fractured a part of my skull (around the upper right part of my forehead). I also had lacerations (cuts) above my right eye, nose, and below my lower lip. This all required more than 30 stitches. Above all else, I had glass embedded into my face because the side window basically shattered directly onto, well, my face.

After everything started to heal and around the time I needed to go back to remove the stitches, I decided that I didn't want to spend money having somebody remove the stitches when I could easily do it myself (so I thought). I thought I got all the stitches but a couple weeks later I found out that I missed one above my eye. The stitch looked like a blood clot, or dried blood. By then my wounds basically closed so I had to make another incision (cut) to get to the stitch. While I got the stitch out, I found a piece of glass that was still stuck in face, so I removed that also.

Now, back to earlier this week. I had two spots on my nose that looked like blood clots, so I assumed it was two stitches that I missed. I made some incisions and tried looking for the stitches but couldn't find any. But once I started probing deeper, I realized it was a piece of glass causing the blood clots. So it took two days, an hour each day, to remove two pieces of glass from my nose. One of the pieces of glass was huge! At least a millimeter by millimeter by 1/2 millimeter.

This blog isn't meant to give you some type of inspiration to do surgery on yourself. And you can thank Nintendo DS - Trauma Center: Under the Knife, for the medical lingo.