how to remove stitches

It's been six days. My sister, Jami, the nurse practitioner, is going to kill me. A guy at church is a doctor and he foolishly commented..."oh yeah, stitches are easy. I can show you how to pull them out, Doug." Which is the exact wrong thing to say to Doug because he is the ultimate do it yourself guy. Any time we need a piece of furniture; kids beds, desk, bookshelf, etc... doug has a vision of how to build it himself. I just want to go to ikea and buy some quick fix, cheap but cute solution. Not so with doug, I think our bedframe was cut, built and painted in the living room of our Studio city apartment. So, after googling "how to remove stitches" and seriously sterilizing EVERYTHING, Doug pulled out all 7 stitches with teeny needle nose pliers and some toenail clippers while i laid on our bathroom floor.