I hear ya. My stitches were on my elbow and I sure wish my cats were more helpful when it came to bandaging it up. One of my coworkers did a lot of bandage changing for me, and even took out the stitches (pays to work with a bunch of nurse practitioners) My sister took care of it when we were together, but there were a lot of evenings of me trying to bandage it up using my left hand and my chin or nose.