so where'd you get that gnarly scar?

Nessiechickie

I'm amazed i don't have any big scars from my cluts.
But currently have a huge black bruise right under butt on thigh from falling on wet grass in flip-flops.
I have broken my nose (years ago) from being kicked in the face but no scar.
Only scar i have is under my knee cap very small one, unnoticeable unless you know where it is.
But fell on the rocks in a summer camp and amazingly enough cut it down to the bone very small but very deep.

jennylsapia

WOW this is a clumbsy kid/ adults dreamland.....I am covered in scars....nothing to be proud of but still the same its something I excel in....LOL my coworkers make fun of me saying that me and walking do not get along....So some of my best scars starting with the best...

#1) I have a huge circle'ish scar on the inner part of my right thigh from falling onto a chair leg as a child. My grandma had chairs with metal legs and somehow I managed to flip the chair over then fall on it....

#2) I have a half moon from last summer when I pulled my entire knee cap (skin/muscle) off at the beach.... I never cried about it until I realized that I had to go to the emergency room instead of the local bar to watch the LSU game.....yes I had spent all day on the beach and yes there was PLENTY of adult beverages that day. I was walking over the levee on the wooden walkway. Well someone had spilled some ice and I didn't notice it until it was too late. So yea that was 9 internal stitches and i think 12 regular stiches. plus a tatnus (sp?) shot!!

#3) Which isn't a cool story how I got it but its a bad looking scar.....I have about a 7 inch scar from my ankle to the middle of my foot from having to have surgery.....I was always clumbsy and have broken/sprained/twisted my ankle SO many times over the years that they had to go in and take out "debris" from my muscle and tendions. I don't know who in the hell sewed me up but they did a pretty banged up job...my ankle looks like Frankenstein!!

CourtLiv

Left eyelid, all the way across...

When I was 5, I was laying down in Central Park when a loose dog basically ran across my face and ripped my eyelid off...seriously.

Thankfully it was NYC, so there were plenty of hospitals and plastic surgeons near by. You can't even tell, but the memory of seeing my lid on ice never ceases to creep me out

frootcat

Oh man, I forgot for a second that I'm a complete wimp and started reading the replies to this topic. I may need to bookmark this thread as an appetite suppressant in the future... *barfs*

Now let me share! lol

I had a birthmark about the size of a dime on the front of my ankle, right where it bends. Dermatologist said it looked fine now, but I would need to keep a close eye on it-- or, if it were her, she would get it removed. I opted to get it removed. Now I have an almond shaped scar, about three inches across and about the size of a quarter in the middle. It kinda looks like I was attacked by a very angry leprechaun with an axe!

Chipmaniac

These responses have made me feel a little better. Last fall my then 3-year old son came running into the house, lost his balance, and went forehead first into the mahogany end table. He had a huge gash in his forehead. I think I could see his skull through it. The worse thing it was on my watch. He got five stitches which healed remarkably fast but he'll likely have a noticeable scar. I was depressed about it for awhile as I felt responsible even though there's nothing I could have done. Seeing that almost everyone has these types of incidents helps put things into perspective.

CouchSpud

2.5inch scar on left lower stomach... fell as a child, when on the seaside, slipped over the rocks and cut the belly open... win

Pocket_Pixi

I have scars across one hand from trying to grab a flame in a furnace when I was younger...

My left thumb has a 2 inch scar where I cut it open working on an exhaust manifold when I was 16.

I have a scar the exact shape of a 3.9 soldering tip from where I burned my hand removing a component from a ground plain on a circuit board.

My knuckle on my right right index finger had a huge scar from where I ground the skin off to the bone while using a belt sander.

Both my knees have mass amounts of scars from the tome I was running from a dog and fell over an eves trough. Into a pile of broken glass.

The list goes on from there. I am really clumsy so I have tons of awesome scars.

TheBigYin

This could take a while...

Scar under right eye, not noticeable - it's in the fold of the eyelid, but basically was a second eye-opening until it was stitched
scar across right side of nose, only noticeable if I get a deep suntan, where it shows up a little paler. Scar in cleft of chin, hidden by goatee. Small scar on right side of mouth where I bit through the cheek. All these from the same accident, where I hit the back of a parked car whilst cycling. Riding along head down, chasing another rider - he moved out for the parked car. I didn't. Bang.

3 inch scar on right Shoulder. Fell off in a cycle race, along with a couple of other riders. Shoulder was hit by the chainset of one of the riders. Fortunately it hit the bone and stopped. 8 x figure of 8 loop sutures to hold the meat and skin together, did the job, but left a wide, angry mess.

Left hip has 3 large scars where the plates were put in to hold my pelvis together after getting knocked off my bike (can you see a pattern emerging yet!) and into a set of temporary traffic lights. Also in the same accident, my thighbone was smashed, losing around 3.5 inches of bone. To fix this, a pin was placed down the center of the thighbone, and a Ilzarov frame was affixed (leaving another bunch of small circular scars where the bolts go into the bone above and below the break. The thighbone was then broken, stretched, allowed to re-knit, rebroken, stretched... ad nauseum - over a period of over 7 months. Amazingly, the leg is now within 1/2 inch of the other one. Looking back, I wish they'd have gone for 2 more breaks and levelled me up completely, but at the time, I was content to not walk without a limp! A combination of the original break scars, and the repairwork means the left leg is pretty much just a tracery of scar-tissue and isn't particulary pretty.

Right Knee has a couple of circular scars either side of the knee, where I've had various bits of keyhole surgery on the joint. There's also a scar on the front of the knee from a rugby injury - Knee was accidentally trodden on by another player during a ruck. Sadly, the player had aluminium cleats on his boots, and one of them was a little sharp. So - another 6 stitches there. Makes a change from bike crashes though.

and then, and just for good measure, I've a whole bunch of small scars on my back, where I was taken over a breakwater whilst boogieboarding. For good measure the breakwater was covered in barnacles, and pretty much sliced my back like steak tartare. Walking back up the beach, with seawater running into all the cuts was "somewhat painful". It also looked completely horrendous, and caused several small children to run away screaming to their mummies.

So, in short - I kind of tend to keep fully clothed wherever possible...

10acity

Where do I start?

1. 12 inch scar starting at my sternum going down my stomach and around my belly button, terminating just below the waistband. (car accident, internal organ repair surgery)
2. Five two-inch scars around my chest (car accident, chest tubes)
3. My left ear is partially gone (see my profile pic, car accident)
4. 6 inch crescent shaped scar across my right hip (car accident, femur internal rod)
5. 5 puncture hole scars, each the size of dime along my right thigh (car accident, broken femur stabilizing rods)
6. Both knees have scars on the cap (3-wheel ATV accident)
7. Various gouges and cut scars (car accident)

Even if I end up "cut up" from working out, I'll look like I've been "cut up" literally in a knife fight. But, I'm a guy so no biggie.

Remind me not to loan you my car...

Ah...It was just one car accident and I was 17 and it actually wasn't my fault. I was clinically dead a few times and spent a week in ICU in critical condition. I'm lucky some scars and occasional annoying back pain are the only long-term lasting effects.

I'd say you are very fortunate, indeed!

rebeccap13

I don't know about gnarly but I have a scar right below my lower lip. I was helping my grandma bake cookies when I was little and she had the old metal cookie cutters, slipped of the stool and banged my chin against the cookie cutter and it sliced all the way through. The story of how I broke my arm is much better but there's no scars from that.

LeanerBeef

I have some pretty good ones…..

3 inch scar from a stab wound right below my right ribcage and a zipper scar from belly button to chest where they had to fix me up.

And an s shaped scar that starts about the top, middle of my head and ends near my right ear from getting a brain tumor removed.

Also had a shoulder repair and was recently neutered. Not big scars but equally painful. :bigsmile:

BigDave1050

Left hip, I was stapped/Slashed, had to have staples and stiches to close it back up.

Middle lower back, Had a Cancer Tumor removed.

Put the scars together and it looks like I was shot and the bullet passed through.

haleylovessoccer

I have scars on all of my knuckles on my left hand. 1 from punching a kid, 2 from a bike accident, and one from a drunken adventure in which I cant remember. I also have a nice little round chicken pox mark on my forehead but you can barely see it. I think my most impressive is the one on the back of my thigh, about 5 inches, from when I was scaling a fence in a pair of soccer cleats but slipped getting over and cut my self on the top of the fence and fell the rest of the way (about 6 ft.) Oh and the ones on the bottom of my chin and the one under my lip from when my chin smashed into the ice playing ice hockey on the lake. Unfortunately my tooth went through my lip at the same time....

10acity

Cool Post. I have two interesting ones.
One, I've had almost my whole life. It's the shape of a paw print (ironically). My dog, when I was a toddler, clawed at me pretty bad and left a white scar on my inner thigh. I also have three scars on my foot, one on each side and one on the top of my foot, from reconstructive surgery in December of 2010.

Ahh, yours reminded me of one I forgot-- and I'm not sure how, as it's one of the better stories-- and that's the little shiny spot in the middle of my left foot from a flaming marshmallow. I was camping with friends, and we were making s'mores. One friend's marshmallow caught fire and she decided the best remedy was to wave the thing frantically until the flame went out. Unfortunately, it went flying and a piece of it landed directly on the top of my bare foot. Don't wear flip-flops to bonfires. I tell people I have stigmata.

rmartin72

I have about 10 Scar's all over :bigsmile:

MileyClimb

I have a big freckle on my arm that's always been there since I was little

jesusHchris

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10acity

Left eyelid, all the way across...

When I was 5, I was laying down in Central Park when a loose dog basically ran across my face and ripped my eyelid off...seriously.

Thankfully it was NYC, so there were plenty of hospitals and plastic surgeons near by. You can't even tell, but the memory of seeing my lid on ice never ceases to creep me out

And I thank you for sharing that image with the rest of us! :drinker:

AdrienneKaren

I have a scar that goes about 1 inch behind my hair line above my left eye and across my forehead, through my right eyebrow, and ending behind my right ear. I was half scalped. It was gross. Took over 100 stitches to close that up. At the same time, I ended up with about 70 staples in my right thigh from where they fixed my broken femur. All of this because of a drunk driver. So, PLEASE don't drink and drive.

Jellyphant

I have a screw top shaped scar on my right jawline from burning myself with the curling iron screw on the night of prom. -_(\

SlimSammy2012

hmmmmmm...Trying to figure which one I should talk about. All of mine have a good story from getting my head scalped by a Goalie palying Ice Hockey. got me right under the helmet line and it took 83 stitches to close on the outside and 46 on the inside to stay secure! thank God the doc was really good with the needle and it was at the hair line...

then there is the nasty one on my left forearm. got it from jumping a huge puddle in the alley (If you are not from chitown or the big city, you may not know what an alley is)at the age of 13. Ground up about 8 inches of skin off of the forearm on the bottom side...

Gotee covers scars on the chin and upper lip...Hockey again...

The biggest scar of all is the one on my heart from the love of my life who didn't want me 28 years ago..

Dayna154

mine is from my tubal. It was supposed to be one inch I ended up with 7 inch one.. My left ovary was deeply hidden behind some other innards and they had to hunt for it.. My belly looked like a road man of bruises.. Worst surgery recovery of my life.

nas24

Oh man, i bet i have the best one here. I have about an 2-3inch vertical scar on my right breast, that goes over my nipple. Faint now, because i got it when i was about 9 years old. I didn't even really have breast then, but i was a really big "tom boy". Well i was in the woods, playing "war/fort" with my brother's and their friends when my brother yelled "Battle Stations" (dorky i know, lol). So off i ran and as i came around the corner i fell in one of our own boobie traps....:laugh: And when i fell there was a stick there that cut me through my shirt, and made about an 1 1/2 inch scar. Of course my boobs grew to D's now and the scar grew with it. Now you can barely see it, because it has faded so much, but i just love that i got my boobie scar from a boobie trap...lol.

SlimSammy2012

^^ funny Story

Captain_Tightpants

L5 S1 Disc Surgery. My wife calls it my 'buttcrack extension'.

BriskisGrl

I have lots of scars, ones from having children are the worse..as for the others the only one i still notice is the one under my lip where a Rottweiler tried to tear it off when I was a toddler

meerkat70

I have a deep scar in the back of my thigh, where I was caught by a blunt object weilded by an apartheid policeman. At the time I was terrified for my life. But I guess it now gives me a certain level of street cred.

darkknightfan

my left leg is pretty marked up with scars from the same accident .. My leg was snapped on a 90 degree angle just below my calf and pinned up under the dashboard. I have a 5 inch scar along my knee cap and nother in front of my shin below the calf, two 1.5 inch scars ( one on the side of my knee and the other in my ankle. The ones in my knee and shin are from where they inserted the titanium rod and rebuilt the bone in my leg.. The smaller ones are where they made incisions to screw the rod into place...

ladyfox1979

I have a Huge Scar from under my right breast all the way up to behind my back and 2 smaller ones on my right side. I was 13 when I got them. I had pneumonia and it got so bad that the pus had hardened to my lungs and they had to go in and scrap it out and put 2 tubes in my side to uck of the remainiing fluids and in the process the idiots scrapped out my lung tissues , so I can't smoke even if I wanted to . I was in the hospital for 3 months learning how to stand upright . Physical Therapy was a *****.

SweetSammie

I have one on each side of my right ankle. I fell and broke it in two places (a plate and 8 screws are still in my ankle). All of my other scars are really boring.