#surgery things

🧵 Stitches? Sutures. Same thing, but make it medical.

Okay so you've probably heard "stitches" at the ER. But have you ever actually seen what goes into a surgical suture? 👀

Not all threads are created equal. Let me show you.

👇 Video demo below – watch how these bad boys work.

So what are surgical sutures?

Just sterile medical thread used to close up incisions or wounds. Simple, right? Except there's a whole science behind it.

The two main types:

🧵 Absorbable – dissolves in your body over time. No removal needed. Great for internal stuff (deep tissue, organs). Think: PDO, PGA, catgut.

🧵 Non-Absorbable – stays forever (or until someone takes it out). Skin, vessels, stuff that needs long-term holding power. Think: nylon, silk, polypropylene, even stainless steel (yes, steel).

Needles matter too:

🪡 Taper point – for soft stuff (intestines, blood vessels) 🪡 Reverse cutting – for tough stuff (skin, tendons) 🪡 Blunt point – for fragile stuff (liver, kidney – no poking accidents pls)

Sizes? From "microscopic" (USP 6-0 for eye surgery) to "chunky" (USP 2 for big tissue). There's a suture for EVERYTHING.

What's in our suture lineup:

PDO / PGA / Polyglactin (absorbable)

Silk / Nylon / Polypropylene / Polyester / Stainless Steel (non-absorbable)

Plus surgical gut (plain & chromic) – old school but still useful

👇 Watch the demo below

Honestly, sutures are one of those things you never think about until you need them. And when you do, you want the good ones. 😅

Reblog if you've ever had stitches and wondered what they're actually made of. 🙃

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I like joke sometimes about donating my uterus but I was thinking about it again recently in light of an upcoming birthday. In a few months I’ll be 29, nearly 30, and like - don’t want kids. Biological clock is not ticking, if there was a chance it’s well past. I’ll adopt all my friends kids as nieces nephews and nieblings, so like... I’ll leave my impact on them that way. 

So I’m actually looking at what would be involved in donating my uterus to someone who wanted to bear their own children and like, yes - it’s a long arduous process, and the viability of pregnancies still seems to be hesitant bc they’re trying to be careful dealing with this “new” proceedure (like 6 years, but still relatively new when you think that testing it out comes with a ~9 mo. process, right? Plus medical validity etc., etc.) Also, there’s not a lot of information I’ve been able to find about living donors and what’s involved in the process for them, which is a liiiiittle unnerving.

But the thing that hit me really hard, and I don’t know why, was reading about a procedure one woman had delivering her child with her new uterus, and came across the phrase “she had a c-section and then her uterus was explanted” and I was like - either that word doesn’t mean what I think it does, or it’s a typo or something.

I looked it up, and it looked like there were a few definitions that didn’t really confirm or deny, but after a more thorough search for other stories regarding transplants, I confirmed that it’s the removal of the uterus after childbirth? And for some reason that Really Really Got me. like, made me feel really sick? The explanation went on to say usually they removed it after a birth or two, which, SO LONG AS THE PERSON USING THE UTERUS CONSENTS TO IT, is really fine? I mean, at that point it’s done what it needs to do, right? but for some reason, it’s really churning up my gut.

The idea of not having a uterus myself isn’t a problem, either. I have nightmares about being pregnant. I used to have anxiety attacks every month over being pregnant or having late periods, whether I’d had sex or not (turns out mine are just irregular. Yay. /s). But for some reason, the idea of someone giving birth and then having their uterus removed, after going through so much to get it? 

I mean... I don’t want to give birth, I don’t want to be pregnant, but I know that some people really do, and I wonder if it’s worth it to them. I mean, it probably is. I have cousins and family who have touted the joys of being pregnant, so it exists, but... 

It’s also weird because I’m like -- Why remove it after a few kids? That thing is still loaded with eggs! But I’m not like that when it’s in me, so it’s like one of those “if you won’t do it yourself, you don’t get to complain about how it’s done.” It also leads to a probably gross question of how many times can a uterus be transplanted before you shouldn’t transplant it any more. (the answer is probably once). I just don’t know why it’s winding up my guts so much...

The other thing is, after I do more research, if I do go through with this, I’d really want a trans woman to have my uterus. I want to be able to give that to her, and help broaden the scope of research for making it a more viable option for trans women. And the sites that I’ve found so far are generally for cis women, tho a few of the medical sites mention the process for providing trans women with transplants too, which is good. There’s just not a lot of information about being like “hey I would like to get rid of this and give it to a woman who needs it!”