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Poll Question Changing a wound dressing

What is worse ?

  • pulling the bandage off - you know the hair pull

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • looking at it

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • asking a friend/somebody else to change the dressing

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • being a big crybaby about it

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • other

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Total voters
    15
  • Poll closed .
I am not easily grossed out, but I did not need this thread prior to Thanksgiving food preparation :victory:
 
Both times I had surgery to remove a melanoma I had to get my wife to change the dressing. My wife has many wonderful qualities, but she is not Dr. Mom. She tends to be a little too rough. Plus she is a little lacking in the sympathy department. It is not that I expected her to coddle me. I just found it off-putting when she would look at the six-inch long wound on my back and say, "Oh, that's nothing." She didn't seem to think so when it was her appendix wound, which was pretty small in comparison.

When it comes to being sick or wounded, I tend to be like a cat, in that I just want to go someplace dark and be left alone.
 
My mother-in-law is a retired nurse, and my husband has had some medical training, skills that came in handy when I had a cyst removed from my back about a dozen years ago. He had the honor :r: of changing the dressing for me twice a day, and without complaint. :)
 
I have zero troubles with it. When I had knee surgery many years back, I thought it was cool how much blood was accumulated into the dressing and how there was holes and cuts on my skin.

In reality, the worst part is the itching that occurs as the wound is healing. That part sucks.
 
I wouldn't trust a friend or family member unless they have some medical training.
 
I had a mole excised a few years ago on my back, The Man volunteered to change the dressing, I let RT do it instead since The Man tends to be clumsy. RT is a pretty good caretaker. The Man does good with the cooking and cleaning which was equally helpful.
 
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