Scar Talk

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  • Izable2011
    Izable2011 Posts: 755 Member
    I also got the tip of my pinky chopped up pretty bad when I was three and I only have half my nail there now.
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    Let's see..going by age:
    2 yrs: traicheotomy scar on my lower neck
    5 yrs: running, fell on new black asphalt, right knee road rash to this day
    5 yrs: curling iron scar on my left hand from baby sitter
    12 yrs: trying to shave for first time, shaved off the skin for a four inch strip on my left shin bone
    14 yrs: the one and only time I felt peer pressured and carved a ****ing star into my left hand by my thumb. There was a snake but thank God its faded out. Why that was the "in" thing I have no idea. God. What a fool I was.
    18-22 yrs: worked in a circuit board factory with paper thin pieces of copper and fiber glass. Many many cut scars all over my hands.
    20 yrs: apendectomy - 3 scars
    22: breast reduction, didn't heal well, alot of scarring


    I'm 34 now, so I've definitely missed some and know I'm forgetting a big one. Any time I get a deep pimple it takes weeks to heal and scrapes I don't even know how I got can take weeks to go away if not months or never. I just don't heal well.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    I have a scar on my forearm that goes from my elbow to my wrist. I broke my arm when I was a kid after ending up on the bottom of a huge dog pile. Bone poked out and and everthing.

    I have a big scar that goes from one side to the other around my knuckle on my index finger. It was from a 4 foot by 6 foot sheet of glass that fell and shatter when I worked at a hardware store. It cut down to the bone.

    There's a small scar just to the left of my nose from getting hit in the face with a baseball bat.

    Another one on the top of my head from when a ladder fell on me.

    I have a small scar on my right shoulder from getting shot with a nail gun while working on a roofing job.

    Two surgical scars from a bilateral hernia repair and another on my chest from heart surgery.
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    i used to play soccor, and some girl kicked my knee out of place.....and eventually it kept slipping out of place often. so i had to get surgery.....and now im fat, all because my soccor carreer ended so abruptly lol

    That's what happens to both my knees, which also ended my soccer playing, but I've elected to not have surgery. Hoping I never have to. I run with a patella stabilizer.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I have a few scars from general klutziness but the most impressive are around my ankle - from my short lived hobby of skydiving.
    My family and friends all claimed I was too uncoordinated to be a skydiver - turns out they were right. I managed to break my ankle into a million (almost) tiny pieces and had to have several operations to put it back together.
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    I spent 10 years cutting myself when I was depressed, so I have scars all over my arms and legs and tummy and even on my breasts. It has been several years since I stopped doing that and, although it pains me to see the damage I did to myself, it serves as a reminder for me of the damage depression can cause if not dealt with proactively.
  • brandiuntz
    brandiuntz Posts: 2,717 Member
    Most of my scars are from when I was a cutter (self-harm). I have them on my legs, hands, and upper arms/shoulders.

    Other scars are: From appendectomy surgery (abdomen), a dog bite (lower leg), a car accident when I was little (on my knee), from working on computers (thumb), and matching ones on my hips from a majorly bad decision on a water slide when I was a bony/skinny teen (apparently, there's a reason you're supposed to lay on a mat of some sort for those rides).

    The appendectomy scar is named Dolores. Was a joke, solidarity with a friend who had a scar from shoulder surgery. When our wounds were healing (and hurting), we'd say "Damn Dolores is killing me today", etc. :laugh:
  • pinkgigi
    pinkgigi Posts: 693 Member
    5 surgeries in 6 years, so lots of scars from them.

    The most interesting is a round scar on my left foot where a little old lady lost control of her car in a car park, and ran into 4 cars, including mine. Luckily I stepped out of the way just in time, but I was knocked over from the force hitting my car (which was a right-off), and walked away with a nasty graze that took a long time to heal (and scarred quite badly) on my left ankle. I consider myself very lucky because my shoe ended up under the wheel of my car.

    GG
  • jadebvb92
    jadebvb92 Posts: 82
    I used to be a cutter when I was 15-18 I used to cut my left wrist and arm. I still have the scars but I refuse to get a tattoo just because its a reminder I guess. When I drive and people see my left arm I tell them I use to cut myself but I no longer do it. I was ashamed of it but I didnt know God back then I was lost depressed and angry.

    i did the same thing on both arms..lots of scars..bad memories but im glad i dont do it anymore
  • SmartFunGorgeous
    SmartFunGorgeous Posts: 699 Member
    I was a tomboy who grew up in the country, so I've got lots.

    But my best scar is on the outside of my right thigh.

    I was 24, and my baby sister was 12, and they'd just paved the road behind my apartment.

    She and I carried our roller blades to the top of the hill, put them on, and away we went! It was so FAST! And it was AWESOME! Until a car came. Then I was like, um, that's my baby sister, and what if something happens to her?

    But we made it down the hill, then up the next hill, then, I crashed. Road burn DELUXE!

    I was supposed to be the adult, so I suppose it is fitting that I'm the one who got the lesson.

    Good times.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    1 scar above my left eyebrow from swinging around the parallel bars in the elementary school playgound and smashing into one.

    1 scar on my tongue from falling off a slide when I was 4 or 5.

    1 disgusting thing on my right knee that is actually some dirt from when I was in 8th grade and skinned my knee really bad running for the bus and apparently never even rinsed it off and skin grew over it but you can totally see the dirt. Grrrooosss!

    1 scar on my left knee from ACL surgery.
  • Kassielin13
    Kassielin13 Posts: 263
    Actually a long list because I am, well, accident prone and clumsy!!! :smile:
    Right cheek and under chin: Car accident 14 years ago, Left forearm (2 cuts & 1 gash): Trampoline and double compound fracture with surgery, Right wrist: IV in for 8 weeks(broken left arm) Left elbow: Car accident 4 years ago, Both knees: Falling down a flight of stairs at age 6, Left calve: Fell off a porch, & Right thigh: Mean little brother throwing things
  • SmangeDiggs
    SmangeDiggs Posts: 238 Member
    Im a Klutz who had an interesting childhood so i have about 50 million scars.

    So just to name a few one on my lip from putting my teeth through after getting hit in the back of a head with a pommel lift on my first week as a liftie up the mountain - nicknamed rambo for that one.

    One under my chin from busting it open on the metal jungle gym trying to show off my amazing acrobatic skills

    One on the inside of my right wrist when it went through a window at high school - nothing like accidentally cutting an artery to start wild rumours flying around the school

    Large scar on the outside of my left leg - i cut it on a hose tap ??? seriously who does that.

    Plus many surgical and mole removal scars.
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    Small one on my cheek- I was little and thought it would be a good idea to lay my head on a sleeping Beagle.

    Knee- fell in a parking lot.

    Horseshoe shaped one on my finger- was trying to cut a piece of cheese and the knife slipped.

    A big fresh one on each shoulder plus a huge one and some little ones on my scalp- my last accident at work. I fell off a horse and sliced my head open on a T post and cut up my arms too. I had to get 20 stitches in my head for a 4 inch gash that went down to my skull.

    Yeah I think that's it!
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Zipper knee from wiping out in my roller queen days. 40MPH downhill, doing tricks, showing off. .. then WHAM!
    Hey, what can I say-- it WAS the 70s!
  • rebecca_lc28
    rebecca_lc28 Posts: 93 Member
    i was born with a heart condition's so i have a scar right down my chest they call it a zipper :D i also have a scar from under my arm to the top of my shoulder blade
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    I have a Z shaped scar on my right ring finger from my first surgery when I was 3. I had a bone tumor on it removed that was bending my finger.

    On my left ankle, three walnut sized tumors were removed when I was 12, they were causing pain and causing my ankle to bend.

    On my right knee, a grapefruit sized bone tumor was removed when I was 12 for obvious reasons (deformity, pain,etc.). The biopsy came back as beginning cancer cells.

    On my left knee, a orange size bone tumor was removed for the same reasons as the one from my right knee, I was 15.

    I have a 8 inch scar on the right side of my chest under my breast. I was 23 and had 8 inches of my 44th distal rib removed due to a tumor the size of a golf ball. My right lung also decided to collapse with that surgery because breathing was so difficult. I also have an X on my right side where the chest tube was. This biopsy also came back as beginning malignaancy.

    On my right side, right where thigh meets groin, I have a 3" scar where a small bone tumor was removed from the head of my femur where it fits into the acetabulum. I was 28.

    Seeing a theme here? Scars, I've got them. I could never be a stripper.
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