Do you have any scars? I have one on my head from where a swing set pole that was holding up a hammock fell over and smacked me on the head. You can't see it, but hair doesn't grow in this thin line. So, any interesting scars? Or non interesting ones. How did you get them?
Oh @bestcee, you’ve opened a big can of worms with this topic! Where do I start....now all of mine are from planned surgeries from 0-15 years old. To be honest I’ve kind of lost track now. Multiple facial and head scars from many surgeries to correct a facial disfigurement including an ear to ear scar that has meant I have two different hair types - thin in front of the scar and thick at the back Scar under my breast from when the drs took rib cartilage to form the structure of my nose (they did that when I was 6 years old and chose that location so that as my breasts grew the scar would be hidden). I was really lucky that the team doing those facial surgeries did all my corrective surgery to a cosmetic standard. Huge long vertical scar from semi failed weight loss surgery (the actual surgery was fine, it was more to do with a) how young I was when I had it done and b) the lack of post surgery support) 4 scars on left ankle from corrective surgery Scar on right inner ankle and left inner elbow to allow for easy vein access during a surgery I think that’s all of them...
I have some from where I had breast lumps removed. Also a few small ones on my hands from bad scrapes etc.
I have lots of little ones...I'm really clumsy Most noticeable ones are - One on my cheek from chicken pox One on my left thumb from shutting it in the car door when I was about 4 One one my left knee from falling on a sharp rock when I was 6 One on my ankle from thinking I could skateboard down a huge hill when I was a teenager One on the top of my foot from setting a trash bag with glass in it down on it and teeny tiny one in my belly button from tubal ligation
Interesting question for us... I have a small scar on the back of my right hand that should really not be noticeable at all if the hospital had done the right thing by me. I was in a car accident ( way back in 1978 ) and the ambulance medic thought my wrist might have been broken so they strapped it all up and this was on a Saturday. The hospital did not xray the wrist until the Monday and it was then they un-bandaged it only to discover a deep cut that was starting to heal so they did not stitch it closed. It was my seat belt during this accident that saved my life. The car rolled. Only one very small segment of window was unbroken... broken glass everywhere which is why my hand was cut and my face was covered with tiny cuts and my ear had a cut which was what gave the ambulance medics a fright as I was lying down in the car ( could not sit up as the roof was crushed in) and blood was coming from my ear. No broken bones... just ended up with shoulder pain afterwards which is now showing up in my old age. I have photos my brother took of the car and the log and tree I drove over and hit. I have never scrapped this event in my life... maybe I should. I was the driver and on my own on a country road.
I have scarred feet from losing two layers of skin when I was 4. Scar on my finger from when I fell on a piece of glass while skating... another one from when I was washing a knife and accidentally sliced my finger open. A few more little ones from falling when i was a baby learning to walk...
I have a 2 inch scar on my right shoulder from rotator cuff surgery in 2002. Over 60 years ago as a small child I fell on a hot floor register at my grandparents' house. My right cheek touched the hot register and I was burned. It was one that had small squares. Right away my grandmother got out the cream and put it on my cheek. My mom continued doing that for several days and the burn marks went away. Over the years if my face got really cold, you could see the marks of the pattern although they were very faint. Someone that knew what happened would know immediately what it was. Others not so much. I don't think they show any more though and I haven't thought about this for a long time.
Yes... One on my right eyebrow. One indentation scar on my right shin from running into a door stop at the school while playing hide and seek with my siblings. Three on my stomach/belly button area from surgery when my appendix ruptured (I was 17).
I have a chicken pox one in the middle of my forehead, one about 6 inches long from having a c-section, a few tiny ones on my abdomen from gall bladder surgery, and one under my chin that I got as a child but no one is sure how. My husband has the big scar in our family. After we’d been married under a year, he was injured at work. A bunch of basketball goals were in boxes standing up and he was strapping them in. But they fell over like dominoes and he was the last domino. Over 1,000 pounds crushed him and broke his collarbone into several pieces. He had to have two surgeries and has a long scar across his clavicle.
Yep! Lots, because I tend to scar if I get a mosquito bite! LOL I have a big one on my right inside ankle. Right before I went into kindergarten, I had to have surgery to cut my Achilles tendon because it was too short and my foot wasn't flexible. And it's not a "scar" so much as a "divot" on the top of my head in my scalp where I raised up and hit the garage door! LOL It hurt like heck and I swear I had a concussion from it!!
I have a few... a scar at the corner of my eye where my mom accidentally hit me with the car door when I was little, a divot near my knee from being bitten by a brown recluse as a kid, a scar on my throat from having half of my thyroid removed in college and two from the car accident I was in when I was 14... I broke my neck, so I have a scar up the back of my neck from the repair and one on my hip from where they took the bone to do the repair.
Multiple scars on my hands from knife cuts. John's ready to replace all our knives with plastic kid ones ...
well, my knees look like road maps, from childhood falls and a few bad scrapes on the ash track during hurdles. I have two matching scars right above my ankle on each leg, from shaving my legs too quick in my teens (multiple times) aaaaaaaaaaargh I have a hysterectomy scar on my tummy (that is why I don't wear a bikini! bhahha, I tell that to my children) I had lymph nodes drained in upper thigh as a teen...two ugly scars. one scar on elbow from car crash, glass punture and IV scars on my hands, from numerous hospitalizations
Yes, my longest scar is on my right pointer finger I cut my tendon on a broken wine glass and had to have surgery to fix it, that is 2 1/2 inches long. A scar about an inch long just above my wrist that happened when I was a teenager and was folding up one of those metal framed folding chairs and a sharp edge cut me. I have a scar that looks like a keloid but is called something different... And I can’t remember... that was caused by a boil, that is on my upper arm near my shoulder.
I don't have any scars, they've all seemed to fade away, unless you count stretch marks then I have a bazillion of those LOL! Hubby has a gnarly one on his stomach that starts just above his pelvis and goes up, around and above his belly button from when he was 4 years old and was squashed between his dad's Jeep bumper and his dad's girlfriend land yacht and had to have major surgery to remove pieces and parts and place other pieces and parts. He also has some on the back of his head where a German Sheppard used it as chew toy when he laid his head on her bed. I think he's part cat...
I have a caesar scar (had three but they remove them when you have the next one), and then I had some moles removed (one melanoma).
One on my knee from when I wiped out on my bike when I was six. Doing a fast turn on sand-covered asphalt doesn't work very well. Most of it has disappeared over the past 52 years, but it's still there. Slight scars left from when I was bit on the leg by a dog as I was riding my bike when I was in junior high. Slight scars left from finger reconstruction surgery. And lastly, the scar above my left ankle where I sliced out a hunk of skin when using my camp counselor's razor is almost gone, too. That has a funny story attached to it.
This thread is painful reading. I might still have one on the back of my thigh from when a very enthusiastic dog jumped on me about 30 years ago but I haven't checked in a long time. The only other really noticeable one I'm remembering (because I can see it so easily) is what was a huge gash on my left index finger, below the finger nail. Almost a decade ago, I reached into a trash can forgetting I'd recently disposed of a broken glass dessert bowl. I could share a photo, but no one wants to see it, I'm sure.
I'm covered in the them *blush* One on my forehead, at my widows peak, from stitches when I was 2. One on my chin from dragging it on the blacktop in 2nd grade (I was, um, low running. It was my favorite thing. I'd run really fast in a tight circle until my body was at a 45 degree angle with only my feet keeping me up. I was positive I'd be able to turn it into an olympic sport...). One on my nose from when I was 23. A big frame fell off a shelf above my desk while working and cut it to the bone but my ex didn't think I needed stitches. I have a permanent dent. I have thick scars on each thumb knuckle from glass work. I get in the habit of popping pieces off mosaics when I don't like how it looks and sometimes the adhesive is dryer than I expect. I have gallbladder removal scars including a big one in my belly button (next to another belly button scar from having my tubes tied a few weeks prior). I have a few big scars on my hands and fingers from a squirrel meltdown. I also have a couple dozen scars from misspent youth (my tattoos cover a lot of those).
I have a c-section scar but that's it. My husband is the one with multiple scars. He's pretty clumsy.
