Do you have any scars?

[BRIOHAZARD]

gmoney's thread got me thinking...

... do you have any scars?


If so, where? And how did you get it/them?



I have one in the middle on the top of my left hand, about the size of a raisin.

I got it when I was younger, I was taking care of my friends dog while his family was out of town. When I went to open the gate to their backyard, the dog got out and ran down the street. So I went after him and managed to catch up to him. He was small enough for me to carry back to their house, so I bent over to pick him up. I picked him up from under his front legs (like the way you hold a baby). I didn't know this, but he apparently had some sensitivity underneath his legs. And when I picked him up, he wailed and bit my hand. I immediately dropped him and ran home.




So, share your scar stories!

 

[CudDULL]

I immediately dropped him and ran home.


So, share your scar stories!

Remind me not to leave you with my dog when I'm away

But yes I do have scars like two of them are from chicken pox, I shouldn't have scratched them . One is on my thigh and one is on my face. I think I might have a few more that i'm forgetting.

I also have a small scar on my knee probably when I fell or something.

And I have one main scar when I cut my wrist, I was 14 and I was just not happy with life. There were a lot of things going on with me at that time so I used to cut but I'm glad that things could be never better now.

 

[maxpowr9]

I have 2. Interesting story about the first one, second not so much.

When I was 10, I got bit by a neighbor's rottweiler right on the nose (dogs bite was on both sides of dorsum). Had to be taken to the hospital and in a sense got a nose job. The scar is still there but you can't really tell it is a bite unless you look closely. My parents being the money grubbers that they are, sued my friend's parents for the hospital bills and the court ordered the dog to be put down. Still till this day I have problems with nose, in particular a blood vein that runs down the dorsum. I actually had to go to the hospital yesterday because the vain popped and I was basically getting nose bleeds every hour. This usually happens around this time of the year when the weather changes and I have to get it cauterized.

The other is on the side of my right thumb. Barely visible now, but I cut myself with an exacto knife in art class in high school. Just me not watching closely.

 

[Kester]

I have two scars.

One behind one ear and the second behind the other ear.

I had a lot of ear problems growing up. I had holes in both ear drums that needed to be repaired. Had 3 operations on one ear and 2 on the other to repair it.

They aren't really that noticable so they don't bother me.

 

[David DeVour]

I have a scar going around what used to be my ankle and a straight vertical scar going on the other side of my leg from when I fell down a long flight of carpeted stairs at the State Theatre. It was a Halloween Party and I was drinking Zombies. I ended up on the floor with my legs in the air. My foot was hanging upside down. There's a plate in it with screws.

I have a scar on my left forearm on the inner side from a boxcutter. I was doing stock at Arby's really fast, cutting through the boxes, and I cut it not far from the vein at my wrist.

Plus a small scar on my eyebrow from falling into the corner of a dresser. That was only one stitch.

 

[fetaby]

Yup, two inches of scar on my right leg below my knee. Stepped on a stick as a kid, the other end whipped up a slashed open my leg. After the hospital trip, I find my brother on the front porch with the stick. It still has bits of my flesh and blood on it. I take it from his proferred hands, and snap it in half. That was something.

 

[blackbeltninja]

I have a brace of nasties.

The first is a big one under my chin, sustained in a serious car accident where we had a blowout and the car flipped when I was 2.

The other is on my left hand where I nearly severed my thumb playing with an electricity generator. The belt started up while I was holding onto it and sliced me open something chronic. It took my two doctors and two nurses to hold me down in Casualty before my mom took charge and just pinned me down properly so they could stitch it up. It's joined to another scar at the base of my index finger where I caught my hand in a gate.

Seems like Zimbabwe in the 70s was a dangerous place to a growing lad!

-d-

 

[Yooper]

I've got many battle scars.

The one with the best story is the one on my Chin, although it has faded a lot (but I can still feel the scar tissue).

When we lived in the Mountains, my brothers thought it would be a huge amount of fun to loosen the brakes on my Bicycle to the point that I could stop on the flat driveway but not downhill. I took off for something and was going around a corner at about 25 MPH. I turned, the bike did not, subsequent face plant on the gravel road. Hole about 1 1/2 inch in diameter. Ten stitches to close it up after they removed half the road from the wound.

The most interesting part was the trip to the medical clinic in town. We lived 8 miles up a twisty canyon road, normally about a 20 minute trip. I was gushing blood pretty badly, so Mom put me in the old Volvo and drove me in...in 8 minutes. (Speed limit is 25-30 MPH. )

 

[Garawr]

My body is literally covered in scars. Everything from random cuts/scrapes to my skin condition, which leaves a little mark when it goes away.

 

[Horschallen]

I have two... one from a gall bladder surgery from back when they had to cut across one side of my abdomen to reach it. The other scar is a fine line across my wrist from my childhood when my family's Siamese cat was getting ready to fight an alley cat and I went over to pick him up, only to end up him biting one of my knuckles, scratching feverently all over my arm, leaving a long deep scratch across my wrist. I still loved that cat anyway.

 

[Sunshine]

I have 25 scars from my piercings but I dont think they count.

I have claw mark scars on my chest where when I was younger a dog pinned me down and tried to dig a hole through my chest.

I have one small one on my face where a dog bit me.

I have about 4 on my right foot/ankle where I fell through a glass table.

5 on my left shoulder where I used to cut myself in 6th grade.

I have small burn scars all over my right hand where I spilled hot grease.

One scar from a scalpel where I had a boil lanced. In the shape of a really badass X




I think thats it...

 

[justsimon]

I have a lot of scars from growing up in the woods and being an active kid. Some others are:

A large burn scar on my left bicep and a few small ones on my hands

A nasty cut on my left thumb from a pocketknife when I was 10

An inch-long scar on my right thigh from an X-acto knife (late-night art making)... I also have an X-acto scar on my left index finger.

A small dent/scar on the underside of my chin from passing out when I was really sick as a kid... Facial hair refuses to grow there.

Several small scars on my chest from a cat when I was about 4

Many small slices from barbed wire

And many more...

 

[giftart]

I have 1 on my butt cheek. It was when I was just learning how to ride a bicycle and I accidentally smash hit a glass panel at home and it cut through and I had stitches. Its lighter now though. haha

 

[jubalon]

My back and shoulders are covered by scars from acne. I really do hate them, and I'm hoping to have them removed/reduced with laser when I have the money for it. It's not that bad, but I certainly don't like it. I'm happy that they're hidden most of the time.

Other than that, just the funny scars with history to them. One incident from some wood carving when I was little, that resulted in a scar on two fingers. One from taking a backflip that ended up off the trampoline. And I dunno, scars from learning how to ride a bike when I was little.

 

[irydion]

two bigger scars on my head, not very visible, because they are covered by my hair: one I got in kindergarden by jumping right into fire extinguisher. Second one by falling down from the stairs and hitting radiator.
Minor scars include one on my upper lips, I don't know where have I gotten it, probably from being hit by someone;
one on my finger, from being bitten by a dog.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

A minor scar on my left wrist from when I was polishing a wine glasses and the stem broke and ended up in my wrist.

 

[operafan]

A fairly large scar on my left bicep (if I had a bicep) from when I was two or so and wanted to help my mother pour coffee. I got tangled up in her feet and was scalded.

 

[ronnie_h]

I have a few from operations and minor accidents when I was a kid and teen. They are all rather small and some of them are even no longer visible.

I remember almost cutting off one of my finger tips on the lid of a tin of some food, but now the scar is completely gone and I can't even remember which finger it was. However, it was never stitched, so maybe that saved me from having another visible scar. Not that it would matter have one more or less.

 

[Titanic]

Wow, I feel quite inadequate reading about other people's exciting wounds. Feels like I've missed out on a part of my childhood (which is where most of these scars seem to have come from).

I have two scars, one good, one bad.

One scar is on my eyebrow, can't remember for the life of me how I got it but I love it. It cuts into the hair in a nice V shape while adds character to my face.

I also have a scar on my wrist - quite ugly and misshapen. I got it while on a rugby tour in South America, during a training session on some really nasty hard ground. I've always had a high pain threshold, so I'm the team tackler, doing all the nasty leaps and hits. This doesn't work so well on razor-sharp earth. The irony of it is that my host family got out antiseptics when I returned with my graze, but I was insisting that cleaning the wound wasn't necessary, and that nothing would happen as a result of the wound (they cleaned it anyway).

I feel immasculated now.

 

[TickTockMan]

I have many, hundreds.

Most are small and from my old line of work. Others are from operations I have had.


I am lucky. Depending on how bad they are they disappear quickly. The ones I have left I have had for years, but they are a lot smaller than they were.