Since this has leapt back to the top of the stack, here's a quick update: The stitches are now out, though the wound is still kinda ugly, but I'm able to type at a decent speed again. I was, ironically, on a business trip when it came time to get my stitches out and couldn't find a "doc in a box" (walk-in clinic) to get them removed. Fortunately, the trip was to my home town and my mother is a Critical Care nurse. I swung by the house and she had a suture removal kit handy (Sidenote: How many of YOUR mothers keep suture removal kits around the house?
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They're out. I kept 'em. And I now plan to put 'em in lucite and make a Christmas ornament out of them!! Hey, it's only fitting.