Staple Talk

Staple talk after abdominal surgery for ovarian cancer reached fever pitch one night when the staple count went from 28 to 27. Oh no where did that one staple go? Was it a miscount from the beginning? My husband was focused on the numbers from the start. How many inches long was the scar? How many staples were there in this swollen belly? He originally counted 28. One day my daughter noticed a couple of staples on the coffee table. "Mom, did some of your staples come out"? I told her no, the staples that were on the table were removed from gifts that I had recently received. My husband was convinced one had come out. He looked in my underwear that had gone through the laundry. No evidence there. Do staples dissolve? I don't think so. This would be one unsolved mystery of this illness. Of course the other staple question we bantered around was: how do they get taken out? We all were sure of this answer..... A staple remover.