What does your DH do with his ring during surgery?

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

I was wondering if you had any suggestions with what to do with your wedding ring when you scrub into surgery?

DH was tying his to his scrubs but he's really scared he's going to lose it. He wears his grandfather's wedding ring so it's not really "replaceable".

I know lots of men don't wear wedding rings but I don't really think that's acceptable (personal preference, I know not everyone believes this). I want us both wearing outward signs of our bond. As he said to me on our honeymoon, "I love that I can trust you, you have a cross on your neck and a ring on your finger and you've never once made me feel insecure that you'd ever even look at someone else."

[GreyhoundsRUs]

DH ties his to his scrub pants - but there is some type of trick to it - like it needs to go after you cross the strings but before you make the loops (if that makes any sense). If you just put it on one of the strings and then tie, you may forget your ring is on there - BELIEVE ME!

Have him ask the other guys what they do...

[JaneDoe]

On days Dh has surgery, he leaves it at home.

[ides]

He used to put it on a necklace but the necklaces kept breaking so now he puts it in his scub pocket or ties it to his scrub pants. He prefers the necklace though.

[Pollyanna]

Dh has a clip on his keys that he attaches his ring to and then puts those in his pocket. They have weight so they won't fall out and also so he won't forget them when changing quickly between cases.

[SuzySunshine]

DH used to put it on the string of his scrub pants - then one day he put it in his scrub top pocket, forgot and it was gone. So he's on his 2nd. So now he either puts it in his wallet, if he has it on him, or he snaps it to his ID badge which he has to wear at all times. The way the badge is set up with the snap it can't come off.

[Bittersweet]

Dh put his ring on his watch band and then put his watch in his pocket.

[migirl]

No clever ideas here, DH ties his to his scrub bottoms.

I like the key ring idea, DH has a clip on his too. I should mention this to him...

[medpedspouse]

DH and I do not wear our rings to work. However, since we do not like to travel with jewelry that is not replaceable (like our wedding rings) we decided to just get plain inexpensive bands to wear wen we traveling.

Could your DH have a second band for work - so that if it gets lost it can be replaced unlike his grandfathers?

[niener]

DH ties his to his scrub bottoms too. I think he does that thing where you go ahead and make a knot or two, then slide the rings on, then tie another knot or two.

He feels a bit naked without his rings so eventually he remembers he doesn't have them on -- though I imagine after spending months and months in the OR, he'd get used to not having them on quite as much and could easily forget. But as long as they are tied on there pretty well I'd imagine they'd stay on in the wash.

[GrayMatterWife]

On days Dh has surgery, he leaves it at home.

Same. Since he's in surgery every day when he's on the hospital rotation, he rarely wears his ring.

[Malpka]

He puts it in his scrub pocket. Has only been through hospital laundry twice
TG for his initials inside the band!

[weeniegeniewife]

Re: What does your DH do with his ring during surgery?

My DH doesn't wear his to work. He is very afraid of losing it there, as the one time he did wear it to the OR (called in on the weekend when he was wearing it), it fell out of his scrub pocket and into the central laundry shoot!

Also, DH sees peds patients in clinic, and as he puts it: "I dig around in poopy diapers when examining my patients" (not really like that but you get the gist of what he's saying), that it just doesn't make sense for him to wear it in clinic. As 70% of his time is in the OR, it's just best to leave it at home.

This bothered me when we were first married, but now I'm used to it. The whole hospital knows he's married and so it's no big deal to me anymore.

[bokelley]

Same. Since he's in surgery every day when he's on the hospital rotation, he rarely wears his ring.

Dh rarely wears he either, he has been on surgery rotations for months, so it has been sitting on a dresser most of the time. He wears it when he does clinic stuff, or any conference things.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

In a lot of hospitals, you cannot wear any type of jewelry - so putting it on a necklace is usually verbotten...

DH left his on his scrub pants - didn't knot first - and the scrubs get sent out to a company...needless to say - someone was digging through bags of dirty scrubs to find his ring - got it back though!