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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/BigFella17 on 2026-05-05 21:02:14+00:00.

Last week I tripped on a kerb and landed heavily in the road on my left knee, like a 7-year old falling over in a playground. Also like that 7-year old, I tore my jeans and gave myself a fiery graze about twice the size of a £2 coin.

I’m going on holiday next week and didn’t want to show off my schoolboy knee, so bought some of those dressings that help to heal wounds more quickly. I’ve used them on blisters before and they’ve been great.

They need to be changed every three days and when reaching for the fourth dressing, I realised there were none left in the right size. I grabbed a non-healing dressing from the medicine box, added Savlon and applied before heading out to buy some additional healing dressings. I noticed that the old dressing was very out of date but figured it would be fine for a day.

Next day, I attempted to remove the dressing. I’m fairly hairy so was expecting to be a bit balder once healed but this was different and was glued to the skin. My first pull tore a strip of skin down one side and along the bottom. I eased the next side off with the same result. I jumped in the shower to soak off the remaining edge but it still took the skin off.

My original graze is now the size of just one £2 coin but is now enhanced by a frame of raw torn skin.

TL;DR: tried to heal a grazed knee to avoid looking like a child on holiday, used an out of date dressing and the adhesive tore a square of skin off to frame the original graze.