Stilly, don’t use rubbing alcohol on your healing surgery site; it’s too harsh, and it will damage the skin. I did it years ago and paid a high price — five days in hospital with a suppurating incision after surgery on my right ankle. Soap and water would have done a better job, and no harm.

What you need is a solvent, which alcohol isn’t. I would try a small amount of Goo Gone on a cotton swab, followed immediately by thorough (but gentle!) washing with plain soap and water.

In the olden days of huge post-surgery pressure dressings held down with Elastoplast, we used to clean off the excess adhesive with an acetone solvent that was, not coincidentally, pretty well identical to nail polish remover.