Got any good scars?

[tamawrite]

So a few comments on the office temperature thread got me thinking...do you have any interesting scars? How'd you get them?

I have a heart-shaped scar on my right wrist; it's about 1 inch in diameter and skin-colored unless I'm cold. I got it when I was riding my bike home from work in St. Louis a couple years ago and I got hit by a car. I did a lovely flip over the handlebars and crunched my helmet, for which I am forever grateful. (Hey, it coulda been my skull!) Anyway, I got some nasty road rash and my wrist was scraped almost to the bone. Yummy. It was purple, then red, for about six months before it faded back to normal color.

Enough about me, what about you?

[Kayaksoup]

Oooh, I love scars....
I have a J shaped one on my face where I had 17 stitches. i have a bug shaped one on my knee where i had 6 stitches. I have a bizarre teardrop shaped one mid chestal area. those are my most obvious ones....

[MKSquared]

My knees are peppered with scars from bike and rollerblade accidents. Nothing terribly exciting there. I have a scar on the inside of my mouth :eek: from a hanger. (I was young, tried to untwist it by holding the hook part steady in my mouth - and sliced my mouth open.) I can still feel it.

My newest one is just below my left breast. During a hockey game, I was chasing someone down the ice, and he tripped in front of our goalie. I tripped over him and landed on our goalie's skate blade. Wanna see? I've got it on my website!

:)

[Kayaksoup]

I wanted to see, but the link didn't work...

[Kayaksoup]

Forgot about the one on my other knee from getting hit by a bike...

[fudi2000]

I have a heart shaped scar on my right foot from when for some stupid reason my friends and I thought it would be a good idea to tie a skate board up to a bike and ride it. That lasted all of ten seconds.
My newest scar is from my Sacral Nerve Implant that I had to have done in August. I don't really know what it looks like, but my DH says it's kinda gross (oh, by the way, it's on my butt)

[badunnin]

I have a discolouration scar on the back of my right hand (thumb, index and middle fingers back to the wrist) where I burned myself with hot oil, which also turns red in the cold/hot. I have one on my chin that I'm not sure where it came from, and various ones on my knees from baseball, bikes, other assorted kid stuff...

[CompassRose]

I have a worm-shaped Gravel Tattoo on my left knee from a nasty bike accident when I was seven. Got hideously infected, and I wouldn't let my mother take the grit out. Also have a neat, round, raised, white chickenpox scar located precisely at the top centre of my cleavage.

A. has an enormous scar right across his nose that I never knew about until one day he got the worst food poisoning ever. His entire face turned green (I've never seen anyone really turn green before!) except the scar, which became a vividly-contrasting livid white. Apparently it comes from diving :eek: into a too-shallow pool!

[slawrence]

I have one at the base of my throat-people think it is from a tracheotomy but I had my thyroid removed---due to a pre-malignant and hemorrhaging tumor.....Glad to have the scar vs the alternative!

[hrk]

Originally posted by CompassRose
Also have a neat, round, raised, white chickenpox scar located precisely at the top centre of my cleavage.
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I have a ton of white chickenpox scars, but none in as interesting places:D
DH has a huge scar on the back of his leg froom knee surgery. They put a foam brace on his leg, while he was still numb with anesthetic and then hooked the leg up to a machine to move the leg to work his knee. Ended up rubbing a hug blister into the back of his leg, which formed a massive scar when all was said and done. DH always jokes that it ruined his underwear modeling career:cool:

[ChristineVA]

I have the same scar that slawrence (post above) has. I had thyroid cancer, so I've got a big "line" across my throat.

I also have a scar on the palm of my right hand. When I was 12, I was going to my very first tennis lesson. It was a very windy April day and I was struggling to push the storm door shut. My hand went right through the glass (I guess they make better glass now) and I sliced open my right hand, which required stitches. I had to learn to play tennis left handed.
Christine

[lhall]

I have a 1 1/2 inch half circle scar on my right knee. I got in when I was in 5th grade by falling onto an aluminum box in my cousins garage. Dad drove very very fast so we could go to a doctor we knew instead of an out of town doctor. I also have small scar on my chin. Don't know what I did then but we were out of town. I have the scar because the out of town doctor didn't want to give me stitches. :D

DH has a huge scar that runs around the left side of his body. He had to have heart surgery when he was 5.

Leigh

[little_bopeep]

I hsve a 10" gallbladder scar because I had my surgery in the pre-lap days. Oh, so attractive. And it's not a cool scar, but I have a dent in my forehead from when I was standing up in my little red wagon (I was 2) and my brother pulled it out from under me.

[gertdog]

My one and only chicken pox scar is right in the middle of my forehead- it is not very noticeable, though.

My favorite scar is my "bowling injury" scar- on the side of my thumb there is this 1/4" long white scar. Tiny, I know, but it's so weird. Somehow, each time I release the bowling ball, the exact same spot on my thumb gets nicked, I assume by a nail on another finger. It happens every time I go bowling- which is not all that often, but often enough that I have the scar. I tried wearing a bandaid on my thumb once to protect it, but the bandaid kept coming off inside the hole on the bowling ball. :rolleyes:

[Alethea]

A few.

I have a dimple underneath my right eye, from when I was five, and got to enthusiastic after watching gymnastics on t.v. and flipped off my parents bed into the corner of my mother's dressing table. Needed a couple stitches.

I have a faint scar on my lower left leg, from cutting myself on coral when snorkeling. Ouch!

And I have a nasty red swatch across my abdomen, from an appendectomy four years ago. I couldn't get the laparoscopic surgery, because I was an idiot and walked around with a ruptured appendix for OVER A WEEK before going to see a doctor. They're still unsure why I'm not dead after that little adventure. The surgeon said it would turn white in a year, and fade, but it hasn't. Makes me awfully self-conscious to wear a bikini.

[avariell]

i have the thyroid-removal scar at the base of my neck as well. (and yes, it's much better than the alternative)

i have a big scar on my left wrist from a broken bathroom door lock that i grabbed when i slipped in middle school. it sliced along my wrist, hit my stainless watch so it jumped a bit, then went up all along the side of my hand. i still find little chunks of metal in it occasionally :o

[sneezles]

When I was 6 I tripped over the hose and put my hand through the window of the back door. Sliced open my upper right arm but I was more afraid of my mother because not only had I broken the window I also got blood on the kitchen floor and I'd missed the school bus. Ended up with about 24 stitches but it should have been more but the dr filling in for our GP was very young and very nervous. I came very close to cutting a muscle. The scar used to be the lentgh of my upper arm but now it's about 8 inches long and about 1/4" wide and you can see all the points where the needle went in and out!

[KristinK]

I have the usual scrapes on my knees and elbows, along with a couple tiny scars on the backs of my hand from hitting them against the side of the pool while swimming backstroke.

The more interesting ones include the teeny blue-green-purplish spot in the middle of my right forearm where my brother stabbed me with one of those multi-colored pencils at age 3; the two-inch raised slit on my left knee when I flipped over a white picket fence on my bike at age 8; the circle dent on my left shin where I scraped it off on some wooden steps at a playground around age 10; and the aforementioned scar on my right wrist, a raised pink (or purple when I'm cold) 1/4-inch oval with a lighter-colored 1/2-inch flat tail where I landed on my right arm - protecting my discman! - when I tripped while running at, ahem, age 22. (Admittedly, within a year, I have since fallen the same way twice more. I thought I was just becoming klutzy in my old age ;), but it seems I've been that way all along, with the scars to prove it.)

[JenZen]

The more interesting ones:

I flipped off my yellow banana seat bike and into the gravel while trying to race my cousin and dad, which created a nice purple scar on the palm of my left hand.

On my left pointer finger, I have a white scar from picking a fern. NEVER run your hand up a fern, because it can cut like a razor blade.

My knees are coated in scars from volleyball floor burns.

My left shin has a scar from running into the snow blower while I was monkeying around in the garage.

My right knuckles have scars from when I grabbed one of our sheep around the neck and it ran against the stone wall of the barn, dragging my hand across the stones as well.

[RebeccaT]

What a fun thread!

My knees are covered in scars because I am a klutz. One of the best ones looks like a little two-inch worm crawling horizontally across my left knee-cap... I was backpacking right after graduating high school, and the shoelaces from one of my hiking boots got caught on the speed-lace hardware on my other boot. Chaos insued, I couldn't catch my balance since I had a 60 lb. pack on my back, and I went tumbling, landing squarely on a sharp rock. I then had to hike another 3 miles to our pickup location, bleeding profusely.

On that same trip I got attacked by a dead tree branch, so I have a 1-inch vertical scar right at the small of my back.

I had ACL replacement in 1995, so I have 3 charming scars on my right knee.

I have numerous burn scars and knife scars on my hands from, well, you know.

I have a scar on my left jaw where I was skiing and fell, and I managed to jam the handle of my pole up against it. Fortunately, that one didn't hurt at all because my face was numb from the cold.

I bit through my lip when I was 2, jumping off my toybox thinking I could fly.

I have a scar on my forehead from running into a car door (no, the car door didn't hit me. I hit the car door), also when I was 2. Between that and the toy box, I had to go to the emergency room twice in one month (or was it twice in a week?) and my mom was certain they were going to take me away from her. :o

I'm sure there are more. In fact, there is kind of a cute little Z-shaped scar that looks like Zorro was here, and I have no idea how I got it. :confused: :o

[Beth Y]

I have a cool scar below my eyebrow from when some girlfriends and I were playing put put and I bent down to pick up my ball and a friend was swinging her club around......lots of blood, cool scar.... I think there was alcohol involved.

I am most proud of my c-section scar from delivering my twins!

You know, having three kids...the way everything is so protective these days for them...I read all these scar stories and recall similar stories from my childhood (riding standing up on a bike down a big hill, of course, no helmut...falling out of a moving car, etc. etc.) How did we all survive before the age of "all safety all the time". Of course, I would never let my kid ride a bike without a helmet or a car without a carseat.....and so it goes.

[Gilgamesh37]

Wow, we all sound so dangerous! :D

I ahve a small white scar shaped like a checkmark on my right middle finger, from when I was about 8 and was drying our big chef's knife and curled my finger around the blade. Coincidentally, that was the same evening I learned the word "tourniquet".

MULTIPLE ugly scars along shin bones, because even though I've been doing it for almost 30 years, I'm still dangerous with a razor. One scar (thankfully mostly faded) along the front of my right shinbone is 5.5" long--night before high school graduation, took an 1/8" wide plane of skin off all the way up. Bled like a pig.

Two part keloid scar--one round button bit, one comma-shaped part--over my right jugular vein where I got bit in the throat by a german shepherd when I was about 12.

[LaraW]

I have a scar on the inside of my right wrist from a nasty burn I got in the kitchen when I was a senior in high school.

I have lots of them on my knees from various bike accidents and such.

I also have a 1 1/2 inch scar on the middle of my forehead from when I was in first grade. The girls used to like to play a game with the boys at school saying "you can't catch me" and then run into the girls' bathroom. Well, I did that, and made a navigational miscalculation and ended up running full speed right into the corner of the doorway :o into the bathroom. I don't remember if I got any stitches for that, but I do remember both parents coming to get me from school. It must have been bad if both of them came.

[MKSquared]

Originally posted by Gilgamesh37
One scar (thankfully mostly faded) along the front of my right shinbone is 5.5" long--night before high school graduation, took an 1/8" wide plane of skin off all the way up. Bled like a pig.


Yeah - um, I read all the scar stories up to this point thinking, "Wow, tough break," or "ouch, that must have hurt." That story, though - *shudder* - the shaving-skin-planing really got to me. Ugh, ugh, ugh ....

[boisewinesnob]

I had a varicose vein stripped about 3.5 years ago from my right leg. I have about 10 little 1/2" scars from my ankle to the top of my thigh, all on the back/inside of the leg.

Also, playing basketball with my sons at their school about 5 years ago I skidded on the pavement on my knee and have a scar from that.

Oh yeah, speaking of chicken pox (I have no chicken pox scars), I have a big scar from the shingles I had about 10 years ago under my left arm. Those things hurt!!!

[swquilts]

I have one nice one on my middle finger. When I was about 10 a friend and I were walking out in a field. I saw a pint whiskey bottle (broken of course!), friend wasn't wearing shoes so I picked it up and threw it....slasho! One ER and 15 stitches later. Doc said if I don't stitch it up I'll have a big scar...guess what, a huge scar!

Now DH looks like a road map, his lower body anyway. He has 2 scars, one on each side of his hips from a surgery to correct hip bone problems. Well that surgery didn't work on one hip so he as a 6" scar on his left bu))cheek from a hip replacement surgery 8 years ago. They went back in about 3 years ago and redid it, but used the same scar.

[Gail]

Good scars?? Seems like a contradiction in terms.

Having no particular desire to discuss surgical scars, I'll mention the dime-sized round one on my right elbow, a landing souvenir from my one-and-hopefully-only solo flight after being hit by a car. Have also got assorted finger scars from "French Bread Finger," (Yuppie epidemic of the eighties), a chunk whacked out of the side of one finger when attempting to arrest the free-fall of a tumbling plate, and several diminutive holes from the syringe needle which went in and out one finger, partially into the next. :eek: Am still trying to figure out why that wasn't a bigger deal than it actually was.

[lakelady1]

My left index finger has a half moon scar on the middle joint into the knuckle which is my "favorite." I was in the 5th grade, and was one of three Girl Scouts invited to help teach a group of 3rd-grade Scouts how to use a knife, as they prepared for their first campout. I was a knife wizard! Got out the honing stone and sharpened my official G.S. blade all up in preparation. Took the younger girls through all the safety precautions and was moving on to carving/whittling, and -- you guessed it -- wasn't paying attention and sliced my finger open to the bone! The blade was so sharp (or I was so shocked) it didn't hurt, but one of the leaders had to go home because of all the blood. Whoops.

[ChristineVA]

Originally posted by lakelady1
My left index finger has a half moon scar on the middle joint into the knuckle which is my "favorite."

I have the SAME scar on my left "ring" finger. A knife accident too. When I was first married I didn't have a microwave and I was trying to separate a pack of frozen hot dogs. As I was chiseling one off with a butter knife, the knife slip and sliced into my finger down to bone, leaving this flap of skin hanging there. Absolutely awful!
Christine

[clairea]

I have too many small scars to count, because I am a complete klutz. I have 2 that always get comments the first time people see me in short sleeves and/or shorts. I have burn scars on my right shoulder, upper arm and the inside of my elbow, where my mom tripped and spilled boiling water on me when I was a baby. Since I was tiny when this happened and scar tissue doesn't grow it is less obvious now than it used to be, but still quite evident. I also have a 5-inch long scar on the outside of my right thigh. DH and I had a table made out of an old shutter on our porch, and decided we should top it with a piece of glass so it would be easier to put things on. Not knowing anything about beveled edges, etc., we just went to Home Depot and asked them to cut a piece of glass the size of the table top for us. Walking past one day, I ran right into the corner of the glass and cut my leg to about 1/2 way through the muscle. I don't know how many stitches that took, but it was a lot! I think the worst thing is I was pregnant at the time, so no good pain killers!

Claire

[JenZen]

Oh yeah, I just remembered my dumbest one.

I was running on the track a few years ago and when I hit the outside of the loop, the wind was in my face. Well, on about the second or third lap, I was really getting an adrenaline rush or something because I decided to close my eyes while I was running into the wind so I could really get a rush of cold air. Well, running with your eyes closed isn't good. I stepped off the pavement and tripped, ripping a good gash in my knee. Then, because I had just moved out on my own, I had to pound on a neighbor's door for band-aids because I didn't own any. I was a mess. :)

[AndreaU]

Cool topic! ;)

Scar #1: 3rd grade. I was at a friend's house- just the 2 of us. (Where was her mom?) and her new dog bit me! No, nothing big and ferocious... a WIENER DOG! Luckily I was 3 houses away from home. I still remember the white wash cloth she gave me to stop the bleeding- who has white towels?? (We never did.) No stitches. Not even sure if that was an option. I got a tetanus shot and a HUGE bandage. To this day (at 34 years old) I have a scar over 2" long from my wrist bone to the bottom knuckle of my pinky on the outside edge of my right hand.

Scar #2: (Less dramatic) Our neighbor's cat liked to visit me from across the street. One nice summer day he and I were hanging on my front porch. He got a little "affectionate." He was licking my knee and all of sudden he bit my knee! My KNEE! I still have a little scar on the edge of my left knee cap.

What is it with animals and me? I also got stepped on by a horse, but no scars. To think I wanted to be a vet!

[Rottlover]

OMG, Claire !! I shudder to think about the pain from the glass to the thigh...

Aside from all the assorted burns, cuts, etc. to the hands from the obvious....

I have two favorites - inside my left wrist I have a very distinct black pinpoint from pencil lead still imbedded under my skin as a result of a pencil stabbing fight between my brother and I when I was 5.

The second is a 4 inch scar from my left ankle up the inside of my left leg from a table saw:o I was 16, had purple hair and black lipstick and thought it would be "cool" to hang out on top of the table saw. Turns out it wasn't !! :o

[J Vienna]

I have a curved scar on my right palm/wrist from a bike accident that conveniently extends my life line into immortality :D

[clairea]

Originally posted by Rottlover
OMG, Claire !! I shudder to think about the pain from the glass to the thigh...


Amazing thing #1 -- it really didn't hurt until the next day!

Amazing thing #2 -- my first reaction was to go get a bandaid, and it took me about 20 minutes to figure out I was going to need stitches:o

Claire

[Paula H]

I've got a small collection. The oldest is about two inches across and is right on my chin, from when I was skateboarding (I think I was about 7 at the time), and my skateboard hit a rock and stopped and I didn't. Well, not until my chin stopped against the driveway.

Then I've got little textural scars (i.e. not a line-type scar, just a change in the texture of my skin) across a couple of fingertips from when I managed to set fire to piece of paper. While I was holding it. And I didn't let go of the paper because I knew my mother would be furious if I marked the floor. Yes kids, don't play with matches...

Nine little semi-keloid scars across my back, shoulders and chest from having some dodgy moles removed.

A seven-inch vertical scar from my navel on down from having my large intestine removed (with lots of railway track scars down it from all the staples), plus a one inch horizontal scar to the right of it from a drainage tube during a later op.

That's it. I think.

[mbrogier]

Hey! Fudi2000 and I have the same surgical scar on our butts! I had to have my implant fixed, so I had two surgeries and two incisions although they did try to stay on the same line. That mederma stuff does help a lot, but it stinks.

I have various small scars from childhood injuries: a small burn on my hand from helping my mom with the hot glue gun, mechanical pencil fights with my brother, oyster shell cuts on my feet, a bad burn on my arm from a bun toaster at work (that scar is almost completely gone--the skin just turns red when it gets cold). I have a chicken pox scar above my right eyebrow--my husband thinks its cute.

I also am bad at shaving---but I'm on a blood thinner and can't anymore and I don't dare cheat because I know what would happen :rolleyes:

[Kahlico]

I have a beauty of a scar running down the center of my chest almost to my belly. It's about 1 foot in length and it was the result of open heart surgery when I was 14 months old. In addition to this I also have:

2 scars on each of my sides close to my arm pit/breast area. They are both from heart surgeries. One is from my first open heart surgery performed when I was 9 days old and the other was from a heart surgery when I was 12.

A scar on my forehead as a result of meeting the edge of a wooden door. That gash took 8 stitches.

A scar in my belly button and one a little further south from laser surgery when I had endometriosis.

Various I.V. scars.

:D
~Emilie~

[Paula H]

Originally posted by Kahlico
Various I.V. scars.

Oh oh, I forgot about those!! Okay, add a few dozen IV scars to my list...