so where'd you get that gnarly scar?

12357…10

Replies

  • cherrybomb_77
    cherrybomb_77 Posts: 411 Member
    I don't know about "best" but I have a nasty burn scar on my left hand from my mom's screwed up oven. 2nd degree burn, it was nasty and I had no insurance at the time. I've thought about getting it tattooed over because it's really ugly, but if I ever do finish up my 4 year degree after the kids are older, I don't want hand tattoos holding me back :/ (I have tattoos on my wrists, but those are pretty easy to conceal, hands, not so much).

    I also have a scar on my left cheek from where I lost a fat with a cat when I was a toddler. FYI, they don't like it when you shove them in bags and then stick your head in.
  • _Timmeh_
    _Timmeh_ Posts: 2,096 Member
    Bottom of my chin split open, playing drunken broomball. It's like hockey but with shoes on and you umm use a broom. Got tripped and chin met ice.

    Hernia surgery, 3 inch scar in my upper left groin area. Sorry no pics :laugh:

    Right middle finger from broken glass slicing my finger open.
    Same finger, shattered the finger tip playing softball, now my finger nail grows in a little crooked..not really visible but once I point it out it's a ohhh ahhhh moment.
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    right across the bikini line - and replaced twice, each time with a bit larger scar; it's about 8.5 inches now! (3 c-sections).
  • BigMech
    BigMech Posts: 472 Member
    I've got 3 good scars.

    One on my knee from a bike accident when I kid, 5 stitches
    One on my thumb from an argument I lost with a meat slicer, 7 stitches
    One on my shin from falling through a set of stairs. You think that would have clue'd me in that I really need to lose the weight, but it took another 9 years after that to figure it out :)
  • Ribena145
    Ribena145 Posts: 201 Member
    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..

    this is sad :(

    but, I have a scar on the side of my right knee I got as a little kid. I was carrying a root beer bottle (yes they used to be in glass and it was home-made root beer too), anyways, it exploded and a piece of glass flew into leg. No stitches that I remember.

    Or there was the time I was maneuvering along the edge of our boat and I didn't see the pike pole, cause I checking for my hand holds and I stabbed my foot into the pike pole (used for handling logs in the water).
  • xyril
    xyril Posts: 80 Member
    I have one one going across my nose. I was jumping in the bed as a kid and broke it on the head board. Still here after 25 years.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    i have chicken pox scars on my face- left side near my mid/ upper nose (if you had to describe where)- theres a line of 3, then 1 centered right above and below the middle mark (make sense? i dunno...)

    very faint scar on my knee from a bike accident when i was a kid- barely visible now (but was well into my mid 20's!) now, even i have to look for it
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Fell on a shovel when i was 4 .....scar on chin, still can't shave properly.
    Fell out on a canoe when i was 14.....scar on left kneecap, sewed it up myself with dental floss. ( we were camping )
    Sister stabbed me with a fork when i was 9......4 holes in left tricep.
    Was stabbed with a knife when i was 22.....4" scar on left torso ( stitches and staples )
    Hit myself with an axe when i was 12.....8" scar on my left tibia ( That one really hurt, grandpa had to pull axe out of the bone )
    2 small puncture holes in my left chest from when i got my Airborne wings ( They don't haze anymore, do they?? )
    I've noticed that with weight loss, my smallpox vaccination scar is coming back.

    Remarkably, I worked a brake press and steel shear for 10 years...no injuries.
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    Knee...spring break...grabbed beads..didnt flash boys...boys drove away...I didnt let go
  • tgh1914
    tgh1914 Posts: 1,036 Member
    I have a Harry Potter scar (lightning shaped on my forehead that goes into my hairline.)

    In football, not wearing a helmet, I dove for a fumble & hit a guy's shin.
  • AllyBooMommyof2
    AllyBooMommyof2 Posts: 171
    I have a star shaped scar on my right inner foot right below my ankle from where I was walking in my grandmas house as a little kid from the swimming pool and the metal storm door decided to catch my ankle and rip so much skin off there were veins hanging out grossssss!! But at least I got a cool shaped scar out of it right? lol ;)
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    i have a gaping hole where penis and balls used to be before they were removed and put in a jar on my wife's dresser.
  • WildFlower7
    WildFlower7 Posts: 714 Member
    Mine are all equally beautiful and hurt just as much as the next one...

    Middle finger- Split in half looking for Rolley-polley's for my little sister proped a rock up and when I set it down my finger got stuck in-between it and another huge rock that was right up against it.

    Across the bottom of my foot- 4in, from stepping on a sprinkler head while running through the srinklers.

    Under my chin- (don't we all have one of those) slipping in a jaquzzi and smacking my chin on the side.

    Just under my thumb on the palm of my hand- Using a steak knife to split open turkey burgers that were stuck together (ya know, divided with the paper) well I got the burgers un stuck and a steak knife into the palm of my hand.
  • xHelloQuincyx
    xHelloQuincyx Posts: 884 Member
    37571_419310718195_506873195_5079064_2924490_n-1.jpg
    oh to be young and stupid. this is like 2 weeks after we burned it (alcohol may have been involved haha) now they just look like one shade lighter then skin tone. when we hold hands the two curved sides go together and make a heart. probably getting it tatted over soonish to a real heart.
  • meggawatt
    meggawatt Posts: 145 Member
    I have so many, I'm really clumsy and I scar very easily even a superficial scratch like the one I just got on my tricep from drywall corner bead. Its like 6 inches long and didn't even bleed much but I scratched the surface of my skin so I'm sure I'll see the scar for many years to come. I have scars from puncture wounds, scrapes, burns, cuts, you name it. Oddly enough though, I've never broken a bone. Kudos to Mom for pushing milk, yogurt & cheese when I was a tot.
  • MegRuthie
    MegRuthie Posts: 139 Member
    Wavy line from ear to ear---

    Born with facial birth defects so when I was two, they cut me from ear to ear and pulled my face down They fused my skull where it needed fusing, put some screws in, and built an artificial little bridge in my nose. Pretty wicked pictures of the stitches. Now I have this *lovely* scar and an excuse to wear my hair down and gorgeous for every wedding I'm in. Ah, the 90's. Nowadays they could probably do it with MUCH less scarring.
  • obeserat
    obeserat Posts: 218 Member
    Scar across my neck from surgery on my spine , it had 13 staples in it when it was done, and a scar on my hip
    from bone being taken to graft in my neck that had about 12 staples in too.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Scar across my neck from surgery on my spine , it had 13 staples in it when it was done, and a scar on my hip
    from bone being taken to graft in my neck that had about 12 staples in too.

    it's a dramatic scar, that!
  • FitLink
    FitLink Posts: 1,317 Member
    Starts about 3 inches distal of the elbow, runs over the lateral epicondyle and kind of makes a curve and ends about 1.5 inches proximal of the elbow, from an open repair of the lateral colateral ligament and the common extensor tendon. If you feel carefully you can feel the pin holding the common extensor tendon in place, just distal the lateral epicondyle at the origin of the tendon.
  • emmy3111
    emmy3111 Posts: 482 Member
    oh my gosh... this thread has me cringing with every new post I read!

    Other than surgery scars, I only have a couple, and nothing with a very interesting story.

    Hooked my thigh on some barbed wire in a field when I was about 12, got a 1" scar from that...

    Fell doing calisthenics in high school (jumping with both feet onto a bench and off again), the edge of the bench scraped the cartilege that covers my shin bone, basically it bunched it up in one spot, so I have a hollow on my shin with a bumpy spot above it.

    That's about it for noticeable scars.
  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    I slipped down a hill when I was 15, caught myself on a tree branch. Had an entire stick go THROUGH MY HAND. I was with friends though, so I tried to play it cool by slapping some band-aids on it and ignoring the fat seeping out of the wounds.

    A month later it became infected and the doctors had to do an emergency operation...and because it had tried to heal itself,they had to make another cut to go fishing for the rest of the stick.

    I have another big scar on my toe. I was chasing a sea turtle and slipped on the rocks at the beach...
  • kendrafox
    kendrafox Posts: 111 Member
    I have a round scar, a little bit bigger the a quarter, on my shin whereigot kicked with a steel toe boot while playing hackysac with the boys, i also have four little hole on my arm where my cat latched on to my arm when i was 9 because i was trying to free her from the blind cord that was wrapped around her neck.
  • cannonsky
    cannonsky Posts: 850 Member
    I have a scar on my leg from getting stabbed with a steak knife when I was little.. my brother and I were throwing them into a refrigerator box.. and I walked in front of it right as he was throwing. Mother was not too happy. I have a burn scar on the bottom joint of my thumb from making fish and chips and a few other burns from the rotisserie while working at a Sam's Club.. I use to have small cutting scars on my arm... but got chemical burns from the cleaning products for the aforementioned rotisserie.. so they are gone now
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    I have lots of burn scars on my forearms...including two big ones that look like branding stripes. Too many years in too many kitchens. The worst burn scars from cooking were on my feet though...and they've faded out over time. I accidentally filled my shoes with steaming hot rice....yeah I know....duhh. hurt so bad....but I didn't drop what I was transporting at the time...I am wonder woman in the kitchen.
  • kimbly71
    kimbly71 Posts: 188
    I have a scar on the top of my left wrist about 4 inches long. 12 stiches on the inside (that is how deep it was) and 13 on the outside. The gash was so wide I actually took a moment to look for that piece of my arm.

    My husband Jon and I eloped the day before New Years (1997) which came as a big surprise to many of our friends. So, the next night our friends threw us a wedding/new years party. By 11 we were completley hammered and opening more champagne. He thought it would be a good idea to open it with a seraded blade. At this same moment, I thought it would be a great idea to drunk dance with a friend and run right into him.

    At the hospital, they actually took Jon into another room to question him about the "accident". Nice!
  • Donnacoach
    Donnacoach Posts: 540 Member
    I have about a 17 inch scar that runs from my left side to just below my belly button. Flip me over and I have about a 10 inch scar in the middle of my lower back. Those are the two gnarliest I have although I do have lots more.
  • BriskisGrl
    BriskisGrl Posts: 461
    i have a gaping hole where penis and balls used to be before they were removed and put in a jar on my wife's dresser.



    :laugh: :laugh: awesome response
  • stephl81
    stephl81 Posts: 122 Member
    6 stitches on my eyebrow. a crockpot lid fell off the top cabinet and hit me in the face. ouch!!! :sad:
  • mandihdz
    mandihdz Posts: 19
    A nice 3 inch scar above and through my eyebrow from running and tripping as a kid and then slamming my head into the bumper of my dad's car. Not fun being nick named Vanilla Ice :grumble:
  • theoriginaljayne
    theoriginaljayne Posts: 559 Member
    I've got a scar in the shape of South America on my leg from a bike accident as a kid.

Categories