I had follow-up hand surgery to a past flexor tendon injury ~ten days ago (long story) (and yes I've been typing through it) but... Someone write the history of medical tape, and I'll preorder the book.
The steri-strip, the self-adherent coban, the micropore. Amazing tech tbh.
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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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this is totally me, too. "Oh, so that's what that looks like. Huh. I've read about it a million times but never seen it done." Dr: "Can't we sedate this patient?"
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I think they put a microchip under my skin the last time; all medical providers are warned in a frequency I cannot hear as soon as I enter the office. "Put her under!" "Run before there are ten more polite but endless questions!"
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