I had remembered removing each and every stitch; how i had to pick at them each night, . It took 13 years to do so. Now 23 years on from that?

Each stitch required a unique pattern of being picked at. . . Now at almost 36 years old?, I only remeber breaking\removing the first 3 and the last one. It regenerating when blood flow was finally restored. I had about 3 days of being me with full circulation. Then woke up to it having been amputated and sewn shut the second time. Cut off and sewn shut. At the same hospital where i was born. Were they the same doctors? Probably.
Removing the stitches the second time required less than a year. I already knew how to do it!