I mean considering how much a big danger of any surgery is.. surgical site infection. Anyway, I always like the stories of innovations we get so used to that we forget they're big deal stories. Hit me up, whoever is writing that book on the magic of mundane medical tech. 
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So I have partial and small wound dehiscence because blah blah necessarily aggressive range-of-motion therapy blah no way to make stitches work well at the metacarpophalangeal joint, blah blah. What did folks do before steri-strips? Oh, right. Suck it up. Suboptimal results.
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Also, my surgery was allegedly "wide-awake" so they could check if the repair worked and I asked my doc if I could *watch*... Anyway, they put me almost completely under. I'm pretty sure there's a note on my file: put her under or she'll ask questions non-stop.
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Hope you were prescribed collagen to help with the therapy/healing.
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Ever tried speech recognition instead of typing?
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Doesn't work for me. I have a two-month non-writing period from the first surgery because of that (wasn't allowed to type, never managed to make speech recognition work for writing. It worked but I couldn't write.) This time, was allowed to type so just bled through the bandages.
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And there are at least two kinds of steri-strips, white and brown. The brown ones I can leave on my skin for weeks (necessary after my mastectomy). The white ones cause my skin to blister and come off.

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I was lucky I didn't have problems with the steri-strips my doctor used when I had my double mastectomy but the Ace bandage (or knock-off Ace bandage) they wrapped me in, gave me very itchy rash. And for the reconstruction, the Hibiclens they used also gave me a nasty rash.
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Best one of these is medical super glue - had it used twice for each hip operation by top U.K. orthopaedic surgeon (formerly military) - not a stitch in sight on big wounds, antibiotic just one day, no infection danger and pool physio after a week! Not widely spread.
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Glue is used quite often here. On big incisions there are dissolving sutures under the skin & then the skin edges are glued.
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