Patience please!

I'm annoyed. 

It's been 7 days since I cut my hand and that's when the nurse informed that the stitches could be removed.  Up until this point, I would gain a little use of my hand almost everyday...not anything big, but at least I could hold things.   The stitches were becoming quite itchy and bothersome, so instead of making a trip to the ER for a nurse to take them out, I just decided to do it myself.  The cut is not as "healed" or "closed" as I expected it to be.  I know it's only been a week, and frankly I don't know what I expected, but I did expect for the process to be more far along.  The placement of the cut is the killer. If I move my thumb or forefinger, it opens a little.  Soooo, I'm back to almost no movement again and I'm very frustrated!  Hopefully I can survive the next week or so of one-handedness and I can start to get back to some kind of normalcy. Here are a couple of pics of the bruising on the back of my hand and the cut, post-stitch removal.  (Just for you, Sara. :))