Hello everyone. I am currently working on my piece and my character gets injurd in a battle. A knife has been thrown at him and thrust somewhere between his chest muscle and deltoid, about 3 cm below the clavicle. The knife was like 3,5 mm thick and 3,5 cm wide, thrusted 5 cm deep in his body. He had it stuck in his wound for a while before he got to treat it (as to prevent it from bleeding). Then he got it stitched couple of minutes after. My question is how long would it possibly take for him to recover enough to get his stitches removed? Thanks for your insights in advance.
5cm deep in that position would either strike bone or enter the chest cavity. (and you'd generally expect a throwing knife to go further in than that anyway) That aside a simple stab wound to muscle closed with stitches will heal in about 10-15 days - a deep one like this would require more than just stitches and would take about a month assuming there were no complications, infections etc
The character has in fact some supernatural abilities, I just wanted to know how bad would it be with an ordinary person as to adjust it to my character's traits. Thanks for your response!
