Pride

I fixed a guy's lip the other day.
Through & through lip lac from the bottom of his nose straight down the filtrum. He had a brand new cleft lip. It was pretty horrifying.

All of the other suturing that I've done has been pretty two-dimensional. Not this. I was silently greatful for my years of art class and sculpture and crafting that let me think in 3D reconstruction. This is a very nice illustration of how to sew a lip.

By the time I was done you couldn't tell that he'd been split from the door of his room. 3 internal sutures to approximate the muscle. Some dozen or so simple interrupted with buried knots for the superficial. It took me something like 2-2.5 hrs.

I was really pleased with my results.