Emergency Room: Sutures on Hand (contains graphic images)

This is an IPhone video of a medical procedure during my visit to the ER of a hospital in San Francisco. I had a gash of 2-3 centimeters on the palm of my right hand caused by the stem of a glass breaking in my palm while I was hand-washing dishes. The gash required three sutures. Viewing is not recommended for the squeamish.

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Education

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• ER
• injury
• stitches
• sutures
• live
• medical
• procedure
• medicine
• hands
• palm
• doctors
• anatomy
• injection

[jetdriver26]

Why did they not numb it first?

[Orishanla]

@jetdriver26 They did, but they had to numb it again!

[Orishanla]

I had three stitches for 10 days, then a few more days of care after that. It's healed very well. Avoid getting it wet and go to your doctor if you see any redness, swelling, streaking or color changes in the wound. Heal well!

[yourbiggestmistake18]

let me know how long it took to heal i cut mine on glass too lol

[Orishanla]

@yourbiggestmistake18 about three weeks

[gottalovelivv]

Wow you handled that really well

[jf892]

i had to have surgery from an atv wreck and it took 27 stitches on one side and 23 on the other

[yourbiggestmistake18]

i feel the pain just cut the inside of my palm open last week =/