so where'd you get that gnarly scar?
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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.
Did you edit it out of that picture? Because I can't see it at all. You are gorgeous!0 -
i have a scar around my thumb from sticking it in a exercise bike back when i was little, i have a nice little round chicken pox scar on my left cheek bone and most recently (3moths ago) a slit down my chest from open heart surgery!0
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There is a six inch scar above my right temple from a car accident. My head broke the windshield 9 months before Indiana pasted a seat belt law. I always buckle up now.0
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I have a chicken pox scar on my nose and one on my knee from falling while drunk.0
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Got a large one that runs from just below the side of my knee, halfway down my left calf. I got it blowing out of the back of a pickup truck on the freeway when I was about 8 years old. My mom's younger brother had this fort, up on long stilts in his backyard. There was a square hole in the floor that he climbed up into through, from a ladder. When he outgrew it, they gave it to me for a playhouse. They cut it off, but left about a foot of the stilts. My parents, being young and stupid figured the weight would hold it in the truck. No ropes to tied it down. Yeah, not so much. My father, my sister and I were in the playhouse in the back of the truck. Mom was driving. She said she felt it lift twice, then saw it blow out of the back just like a cardboard box. From my perspective, my dad and I were playing battleship and I was just getting ready to call a number and he went floating slowly over my head. I was puzzled and wondered how he was doing that. He said, "Everything is going to be alright." and then I blacked out. Next thing I knew, some stranger was scooping me up off the freeway and carrying me to the side. It had lifted up, turned over, throwing us into the roof, crashed onto the freeway and broke apart and we went skidding down the freeway on what was left of the roof at whatever speed you go when you blow out at 60 mph. My leg was sticking off the roof and the freeway just peeled the skin off it as we skidded. Amazingly, none of us were hurt any worse. Dad got his hand peeled when he put it down, without thinking, to try to stop it. My sister had a bump on her head. I was hurt the worst and it was just my leg and my ankle. It took the skin, right down to the bone on that little side bone on my ankle. Crazy, Huh?
That is downright unbelievable. (But I believe you.)0 -
This is what I have in my body
I love that you posted this! And you SHOULD wear bikinis all you want!
I'm loving reading all of these (even the considerable number that have literally made me cringe and/or gasp and/or cover my gaping mouth). If I wasn't impressed with all of you people before, I surely am now. We are hardcore!0 -
7" scar down the center of my right knee from surgery after a ruptured quadriceps tendon. Ripped that bad boy right off the knee cap!0
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This is what I have in my body
I love that you posted this! And you SHOULD wear bikinis all you want!
I'm loving reading all of these (even the considerable number that have literally made me cringe and/or gasp and/or cover my gaping mouth). If I wasn't impressed with all of you people before, I surely am now. We are hardcore!
This tube and shunt keeps me alive cause it drains the fluid from my brain to my abdomen 24/7.0 -
The last quarter of my pinkie finger is missing and the scar goes down to my second knuckle. I was washing a glass and it just completely snapped. I had to have it sewn back together, and the tip of it still died. I don't have feeling on the outside of the pinkie.
I have a 4 inch scar up the inside of my left calf from a more unpleasant time in my life, and various straight scars on both arms.
3 dots and a keloid scar on my belly from gallbladder removal.
Last but not least, a huge scar going from the outside of my nose to the middle of my upper lip. When I was six I was carrying my cat home from my friend's house when he saw another cat and completely lost it. Sliced me down to the fat, but we couldn't afford a visit to the doctor, so my mom just patched it together. It isn't the nicest scar, but I'm used to it.0 -
Left foot. Stepping on a broken bottle.
Forehead. Running headfirst into the edge of a door.
Forehead(again). Baseball bat from cousin. He hit the ball but I was standing in the swing zone. Don't worry, no dain bramage.
Upper lip. Plastic surgery scar to close cleft pallet.0 -
I have a bunch of scars around my right ankle from the time, about 10 years ago, when I decided that skydiving would be a great hobby.
I did a couple of tandem jumps and then decided to learn to jump solo - which was fantastic until jump number six.
I always tell people that I got everything right for the first 9,999 feet, I just screwed up the last 1 foot - ie. the landing. I smashed my ankle into about a thousand tiny pieces and had to have surgety to pin in together again - hence the scars.0 -
Inside of my left palm from putting my hand through a window. Took 4 stitches to close it. The tendons were hanging out. It was gross.
In between by nose and upper lip - took a nice face plant on the concrete the 2nd time I tried to ride a bike after having not ridden one for 25 years. Yea...I don't have that bike anymore. I also have a nice craze line on my front tooth from where my tooth skidded on the concrete. I'm lucky I didn't lose my tooth or break my nose.
A few small scars on my abdomen from 2 laparascopic pelvic surgeries (including hysterectomy).
Left knee - dropped a large pile of glass ashtrays on it when I used to waitress. A few years later, the aforementioned bike accident caused another scar on the same knee. I don't have much feeling in that knee anymore.0 -
I have one with some stitch marks on the back of my right hand straight back right between my index and middle fingers where I sliced myself open on a truss plate crawling through an attic.0
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I have a 1 inch scar on the bottom of my left foot (such a ***** getting it stitched). I was 10 and playing hide and seek with my cousins and sisters, it was in the dark. They thought obstacles would be a cool idea, until I stepped on some Ghostbusters toy (nice pointy horns). Five needles to numb it and I felt the second stitch go through
And on my right arm I have a 2 inch diagonal scar from sliding down the side of a bed, it had a metal bed frame and must've scraped it on there. I love my scars.0 -
ACL PCL and posterior lateral corner. Two knee surgeries 1st one year ago today and second 6 weeks later.
ended up with about 6 scars over all on my knee.0 -
I have four gnarly scars on my abdomen from a gallbladder removal that was fairly complicated and almost had to be converted to an open procedure but instead one scar is just quite a bit larger then anticipated- passed stones for 2yrs and no on thought gallbladder because I was 16 and in great shape.
On on my lf index finger, tried to take the tip off with a knife (on accident of course).
Right second toe has a sizable one from droping a chair on it (possibly was an open fracture)
Lf thumb sliced open with a steak knife.
I have one at the corner of my mouth but I cant remember how I got it.0 -
I have a scar right below my lower lip from where I fell onto the arm of a pew and my tooth went all the way through my lip. I didn't have to get stitches though
just glued.
Omg we're scar twins lol. I fell while playing tag when I was younger. I sort of bit down in anticipation of the fall because I knew it was happening and couldn't stop it. The impact from hitting the ground sent my tooth right through my lip. I've got a scar in the exact same place as you. No stitches for me either. 0 -
I have a scar right below my lower lip from where I fell onto the arm of a pew and my tooth went all the way through my lip. I didn't have to get stitches though just glued.
Omg we're scar twins lol. I fell while playing tag when I was younger. I sort of bit down in anticipation of the fall because I knew it was happening and couldn't stop it. The impact from hitting the ground sent my tooth right through my lip. I've got a scar in the exact same place as you. No stitches for me either.
These make me cringe. I'm sensitive about my teeth... one of those people who has the dream about losing them all. *shudder*0 -
I have a scar right below my lower lip from where I fell onto the arm of a pew and my tooth went all the way through my lip. I didn't have to get stitches though just glued.
Omg we're scar twins lol. I fell while playing tag when I was younger. I sort of bit down in anticipation of the fall because I knew it was happening and couldn't stop it. The impact from hitting the ground sent my tooth right through my lip. I've got a scar in the exact same place as you. No stitches for me either.
These make me cringe. I'm sensitive about my teeth... one of those people who has the dream about losing them all. *shudder*
I think I may have made it sound as if the tooth actually came out. It didn't, I just basically bit through my face lol. My teeth were/are fine 0 -
Ok, I have read every single one of these... talk about a wild ride to getting these scars we have!
I have a few....
When I was about 3 or 4 my brother who was 5 or 6 at the time, had a hatchet.... (ok everyone breathe lol) I wanted him to cut a spot but didn't speak well or fast enough..i'm not sure which, and he hacked my finger nearly off.. mom drove a maverick.. it was a "3 on the tree" shifting thing lol... and we lived about 10 miles from town.. after she hunted my brother down she drove us to the doctor in town while holding my finger together. I was little and got stitches and a splint. The Dr. said it would be ok, long as I kept it dry and in the splint. Well, what little kid listens to that.. it is much more fun to slip it off and play in the sink full of water, get told on by said older brother, and repeat. Well, all these years later.. the fun thing to do is show people my fingers that make a V when next to each other... and look at their face LOL.. I still give him a hard time about it to this day...mind you, this happened 1987 or 88 :laugh:
Needless to say.. revenge is cool right, even if it's accidental.... :devil:
I shoved him down the basement stairs to get my turn at smelling the milled dog and cat food. OH God, am I really admitting that LMAO.. We were farm kids, and weird things were interesting, like bugs, mud pies etc... but yeah.... lol... He hit nearly every step with his head on the way down.. I ran, Hid, and cried.. I felt bad.... :flowerforyou: sorry?! He was ok though..
Next, I have a crescent shaped one on my knee. When I was in the 5th grade, my best friend Rebecca, had an Animaniacs Lunch box... while I ate school lunch... (poor me lol). At recess one day, I thought it would be funny to race her to get her lunch box and in the process I slipped on some new gravel the school had put down with wood lining it...to store lunch boxes convenient right? Not really, I fell and my knee was impaled on a rail road tie (the metal spikes they use to hold them down.. reebar??).. I thought it hurt, but being a farm kid with all boy cousins.. I didn't cry or look at it. Then, suddenly, all the other kids were scared looking and Rebecca said, your bleeding everywhere!!! I looked and nearly passed out. I was the most angry because my mom had just bought me pure white Keds shoes the night before.... and they were ruined. Long story short... I had impaled my knee to the bone on that damn spike. The school nurse didn't know how to help me so they called my mom and with in 3 hours I was stitched up... as for the spike? Conveniently, it was tacked down the next day.. the school didn't even apologize. Then the gym teacher made me still do physical fitness testing when I was supposed to sit out to heal.. :noway: ..
My last one is my C section scar.. its small and I can't see it yet, but even being overweight, the Dr. gave me one as low as possible and small as possible... Quote: "so I can wear a bikini one day" boy I sure hope so!!0 -
1. 4 inches on the bottom of my foot. stepped on an exposed broken pipe sticking out of the ground.
2. inch long scar on my ring finger . art class accident with an exacto knife. lol
3. half inch scar above left eyebrow. some idiot kid "playfully" threw a rock at me and seemed surprised when it hit.
4. 5 small scars on my fingers. reason unknown,
5. 4 half inch scars and one 2 inch scar on my stomach from lap band surgery.
6. about 8 more ranging in size all over me reason unknown.
i was never a girly girl. lol0 -
not the best pics sorry .....seeings other people are showing off "battle wounds"
Car accident leg
Car accident shoulder (thank goodness for seatbelts!)
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I have four that I wouldn't say LOOK gnarly, but the way I got them was pretty gruesome.
1. On the top of my right forefinger. I sliced off a chunck of my flesh from my cuticle to the first knuckle on a pair of hedge trimmers while doing yard work. That was GROSS!
2. On the top of my right thumb. Stabbed it while using a utility knife...it actually stuck in the bone a little. That one made me feel woozy.
3. On the back of my left hand. My cousin's dog bit me. The scar isn't all that bad looking considering how mangled my hand was at the time it happened.
4. On the inside of my left pinky finger. I sliced it open on the lid of a can of cat food. Almost sliced a chunk completely off to the bone.
All of these bled like mad. Didn't get stitches for any of them, though, and all but the dog bite, I bandaged myself.0 -
This was a great topic to post on! Good idea :flowerforyou:0
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I think my best one is from when I tore my belly button ring out when i was 16 or 17. I did it on purpose though. It had migrated so far out that it didn't make sense to carefully remove it, so i just ripped it. Didn't hurt at all, but the looks on peoples' faces when I say I ripped it out is just priceless!!! lol0
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I have two... well, sort of two. You'll see.
First, the obvious one is on my left food down the side. See, I was going to school one dark morning, and was half asleep, and missed the bottom step... and shattered a bone in my foot. From missing ONE step! Sheesh! So they had to do surgery and put in a pin to make it heal correctly, but I'm really proud of the scar it left. I'd never broken a bone before, and my siblings had broken dozens between them, but none of THEM had ever had to have surgery. Bragging rights, when you're 17.
My other scar, or scars, are on my right and left arms, on the inside of my elbows. Teeny tiny little dots, from the bajillion times I've had my blood taken. When I was little, I had cerebral palsy and epilepsy and got blood drawn weekly. Then as a teenager, I found out I have hypothyroidism - very, very BAD hypothyroidism. I wound up with blood drawn monthly for about three years. THEN I got pregnant, and well, some of you may know how often they like to draw blood for that, especially with a thyroid problem. After all those years, I've collected a very nice selection of needle scars, to the point where they're actual visible. Ha!0 -
huge scars on my legs from breaking my legs. they had to go in and put metal rods in the bone, close me back up, stitches and then when it was healed, had to be opened up again to remove the metal and then stitched back up again.0
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I have a scar on my knee from when I fell as a kid and scraped it. numerous scars on the abdomen area from surgeries (appendix, gallbladder, ovarian cysts, hysterectomy). And while they aren't scar's from injuries per se, I do have several markings on my body from NF1 that often raise a lot of questions from people. I hope someday I can get a few of the more bothersome ones removed, I think a scar would be more preferable.0
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I have a 3 inch scar on my left arm/wrist/hand along with 2 1 inch scars and 3 pin scars from when I shattered 2 inches of the radius bone in my left arm and had to have it reconstructed using a bone graft, along with repairing most of the soft tissue damage. The 2 1 inch scars are from the external fixator I had sticking out of my arm for 5 weeks following surgery, along with the 3 pins. I fell 12 feet from a catwalk with no railing, through a false ceiling, and landed on a concrete floor.
I have matching scars on my legs, right above both knees. They are 3 inch scars with 3 pin scars underneath. I had bilateral femural derotation surgery done at the age of 4. I had both of my femurs surgically broken above my knees with my left leg turned 41 degrees out and my right leg turned 35 degrees and pulled down half an inch. When I was born, my feet were turned in and braces, shoes on the wrong feet at night, et al, didn't work.
I have a 2 inch scar on my lower back from having a benign tumor the size of a grapefruit removed. It was taken out in two chunks. It was determined that it was a lipoma (fatty tissue tumor).
I have various small scars from different injuries and 2 scopes done on my right knee. The biggest of those scars is on my right shin. I got that as a result of covering 2nd base in a softball game and ended up getting cleated in my right shin from a player trying to take me off the bag when she was sliding. She was out and tossed out of the game because it was discovered she was wearing metal cleats (which are illegal in ASA softball).0 -
I got plenty of scars, key hole one where I fractured my ankle and had to have a pin in. Knee year 8 in school fell over and to a massive chunk of flesh from my knee, a circle shaped scar on my near my chest which one of my ex's who was a sadist burnt me with a tsp, my elbow straight down scar suprisingly sliced by slipping on to a frying pan and one right next to my left eye which I walked into a door frame when I was younger :X0
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