so where'd you get that gnarly scar?

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!!

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!

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

^^ funny Story

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

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...

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.