Sunday evening greetings from Morgantown, West Virginia! We packed up this morning and went at the nearby urgent care that had told me on the phone yesterday that, yes, they could remove my stitches. After filling out 4 pages of paperwork and waiting half an hour they told us that Medicare won’t cover suture removal at an urgent care. It has to be done by your primary care physician (500 miles and 2 days away) or by the facility that put them in. So, off we went to the ER where we were on Tuesday, and everything proceeded smoothly. I wish we’d gone there in the first place. They said my wound is healing well and we were on our way shortly after noon.