nah, it's not me! about a year ago my daughter's boyfriend had a couple thousand lb piece of oilfield equipment fall on his leg and seperate his calf muscle where you could see daylight thru it. a year later after a couple operations, skin grafts that wouldn't heal and physical therapy, he's almost back 100%. 2 weeks ago he was massaging his scar and noticed something shiny in the edge of his scar. turns out it was a staple they forgot to remove. actually, his therapist removed the staples after his doctors left them in too long and the skin was starting to grow over them. after it started to bother him to much he went to have it checked and sure enough the xray showed it was a staple breaking out of the skin. 1 staple not so bad I guess.. I've had to remove a forgotten stitch or two over the years...but the xray also showed 9 (NINE) more staples deep in muscle tissue that had not been removed also. he's looking at more surgery to have them removed. pretty gross before picture and a pic of the recent xray showing the "forgotten" staples.. medical negligence?
