Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Suture-Off

In Matthew's podiatry program they have had an ongoing competition on who can do the most and best looking sutures (stitches).  This has been great practice for when he will have to stitch up patients after surgery.  The 8 remaining competitors went into the finale where they were suited up, gloved and looked really like doctors!  They even put vasaline  all over their gloves to simulate real surgery.  Here is Matthew all ready to go. 

 They stitched on pieces of felt and were judged on technique, spacing, and how many suters they could do in a 3 minute time period.  They competed two at a time and soon went down to 4 people remaining, 2 people remaining and guess who won the whole competition? Yes, Matthew won 1st place!  Woo hoo!  I was a very proud wife.  This is while he was stitching for the win.

  Austin was a champ the whole time but he didn't recognize Daddy with all his gear on.

Here is Matthew with his stitches on the clipboard and his prize, an Ipod touch!
My husband is a suture champ!

8 comments:

Taryn said...

Wow, nice!! That is so fun that they did that in their program. At least you know you'd feel comfortable if Matthew ever had to stitch you up!

By the way, my sister-in-law just found out that her family will be moving to Plano, Texas next year for her husband's fellowship. It sounded so familiar-is that where you are from?

Leslie Elaine said...

Yay Matthew!! Congrats! Plus that is awesome about the Ipod touch! Make sure to download the Gospel library app, it is awesome!

Heather said...

That is wonderful! What a cool thing to do. Did you give him any pointers? ;)

Julie said...

Awesome! That would be so hard! And nice prize!!

Julie ;)

Christi said...

Wonderful! That's cool that you got to come an watch, and what a cool prize!

Jenna said...

Yay Matthew! What an awesome prize! I love Austin's smile!

Julia and Cody said...

How cool is that!!! Way to go shanna's hubby! :)

Anonymous said...

thats really neat! I was wondering what Matthew meant when he texted Jared about winning an ipod touch! :)