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Tattooing. And hospital stays, like - people just ripping IVs out and leaping up. If you just had surgery? That's not gonna happen. Plus - catheter. That ain't just gonna slide out - kinda the point.

Now I really want a scene where a character needs to get his/her injured buddy out of the hospital, pronto, but the catheter has to be dealt it, painfully.

HA!
Having had catheters a time or two, all I can say to that is *ow ow fucking ow*.

Plus, they use about a mile of this super-thin tape stuff to stick the i.v needle and tube down flat. I still had that shite on me a week after i went home.

Oh, god, that fucking tape, I don't even know whether they get it from, but I know I couldn't get it off.

YES. I picked at it for days. It took the nurse like half a fucking hour to get the damn IV out of me because we couldn't get that damn *tape* off.

And i had little circles of glue on me from the telemetry monitor for a month. It was ridiculous. Every time I thought i'd got it all, they would reappear.

Hmm, you can get sticky glue like remnants of tape off things with lighter fluid, maybe that works on skin as well?

Having been a hideously clumsy child and basically living in those super adhesive fabric band-aids until my teens, I always had nail polish remover to get rid of the glue. I'm guessing plain acetone would work also. Just make sure you moisturize afterwards because acetone can be very drying.

I used everything, it seemed like it just somehow came *back*. I'd look in the mirror and damn, *more glue circles*, wth. Stupid things.

It does, this glue was just hideously stubborn and horrible. Plus, i don't like smelling like lighter fluid and I was so wiped out (had to go back into the hospital a week later, 'cause i wasn't doing so great), showering just about made me collapse. So the less caustic fluid on my skin, the better. (Plus...they just seemed to *come back*, over and over. It was kind of creepy.)

That is completely understandable. The coming back is super weird.

I think what it was, when I had the surgery they use this super-thin 'incise film', a barrier film that goes on the site of the incision and covers all the skin around it in a pretty big area. It's to help keep the area sterile and keep the wound edges clean.

It's basically super-stick, super-thin cling film. I think that really made the whole ordeal worse, 'cause I could barely see the stuff, and yet it was still there on my skin and a giant pain to remove.

Ew. I mean, sure it's probably necessary but that doesn't make it less annoying.
(Fun fact: My skin seems to "dissolve" certain inks/colours. Every time I get a stamp on my hand at events, it turns into a vague fuzzy blob of colours in a matter of an hour at the most.)

Huh, interesting. Body chemistry - it's fun!
I can wear approximately one perfume that doesn't become some kind of sour, gross *stink* on me within an hour.

And it's *amazingly* annoying, but also really cool, since it helps keep the incision itself neater and really does help with sterility. Just...please make it come off more easily!

Or at least tell patients how to get it off...

This would help, yes!
Hehe. :)

Ehm....I totally leaped up after surgery, though. I just casually strolled to the bathroom and two old ladies in my room called the nurses and panicked...but yeah. I did not pull out the IV because I wasn't actually leaving, but I could have...depends on the surgery, I guess. And I never had catheters, either.

Sure, if you didn't have a catheter it's not so big a deal, but you can't just rip those things out and be on your way.

Lucky you, not to be swaddled in ten miles of tape!

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