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Oh yeah. I have scars... mostly because I was a klutz as a kid. I have an eyebrow scar from tripping up cement stairs at church that required stitches. I also tripped in my house and smacked a screw head from metal strip that was holding down the carpet transition and that left a scar in the middle of my forehead. I have scars on both of my feet from 3 foot surgeries. (so many bunions!) :giggle Then I had knee scars, and one chickenpox scar on the back of one calf. I think that's most of them.
 
i have scars on both hands from a kitchen accident and a surgery to remove a benign tumour, and a trip when i put my hand out onto broken glass a c section scar, and a small laparoscopy scar and a practically invisible scar on my neck where ny throid was removed
 
I have the C-section scar and related stretch marks...
Lots of little ones because I burn myself or cut myself or those poison ivy episodes that I could not keep my hands off of...
But my favorite scar if there is such a thing, is the one on my middle finger near the cuticle - at age 6, I was grabbing a cookie off the cookie sheet instead of waiting for mom.

One thing about aging, those scars do fade over time...
 
I have a c-section scar.
A scar on my leg where I accidentally poured boiling water.
A few chicken pox scars on my face.
A few (more like a lot!) scars on my arms/hands where I've burned myself from the oven and iron...seriously, I always burn myself.
And a scar on the back of my leg where a dog attacked me.
 
Lindzee said:
I was badly burned right after I learned to walk.
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I cannot believe I failed to remember these, and Lindzee's post reminded me... My sister and I both burned 3 layers of skin off our feet when we were small and left alone in the bathtub. My mother (8.5 months pregnant) went to answer the phone, and when she heard us screaming, assumed we were just fighting with each other. My sister (she was almost 2) decided to turn on the bath water that was hot, and the water heater was set too high. We had surgery to replace the skin with pig's skin... I didn't wear sandals until I was in late high school/early college because of the scars. We spent a week in the hospital, and when we got home, another 2-3 weeks before we were able to walk. My mom had a 4yr old, and a 2yr old, both that couldn't walk, and then she went to the hospital to have my brother. A rough time on my parents, I can't even imagine!
 
The better question might be, Who DOESN'T have a scar? :eek
I've got my c-section scar (which is really a scar-cut-on-top-of-a-scar since I had 2 of them) and a bunch of others. I don't scar well so little things turn into big things (keloids, as others have mentioned) except my c-s scar. It's small, thin, and barely noticeable, which I'm glad about even if no one sees it. :giggle
 
I've got a couple of scars from chicken pox - one on my forehead and one in my left eyebrow. I call them my dents lol There's a scar on my knee from crashing over railroad tracks on my bike when I was 9. I have a small scar on the inside of my right wrist from washing dishes - I took a small chunk out of my skin with my pinky fingernail! Dumb. I have a tiny scar that required stitches on my lower right eyelid from playing tether ball. My friend reached back to hit the ball and I was standing too close. She caught my eyelid with her fingernail. That sucked. The last one I can think of is an L-shaped scar on my palm, below my thumb, from a box knife. Remember kids, point the blade of the box knife AWAY from your body while using it :P
 
Karen said:
Oh yeah. I have scars... mostly because I was a klutz as a kid. I have an eyebrow scar from tripping up cement stairs at church that required stitches. I also tripped in my house and smacked a screw head from metal strip that was holding down the carpet transition and that left a scar in the middle of my forehead. I have scars on both of my feet from 3 foot surgeries. (so many bunions!) :giggle Then I had knee scars, and one chickenpox scar on the back of one calf. I think that's most of them.
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I've been putting off bunion surgery. I have 2 on each foot. I should have had at least one of them done this summer, but I went to London instead.
 
Two scars, both on my right hand:

The first one follows my "lifeline". When I was 4 or 5, I was playing outside with the neighbor girl. We were scooping sand into coffee cans (and they had the lids that used to be insanely sharp). My lid's sharp ring was facing up, I stumbled & fell with my hand right on the ring.) I remember my mom taking me to the clinic with a towel around my hand, way too much bleeding.

The second one is on the opposite side, on the face of my hand, near my thumb. I was cleaning gutters with my DH, but we had waited too long and the water had partially frozen in the gutters. I was using a NEWLY sharpened chisel to break up the ice. Well, I got done, put the chisel in my pocket & then proceeded to brush my hand up against it. Not pretty. But I refused to get stitches since it was too visible. I ended up with three steri-strips across the cut & it closed up after around 10 days.
 
My left knee has scars from two klutz-related incidents as a child that required stitches. A few years ago I had to have two surgeries (detached ACL that had to be replaced, plus a follow-up surgery to fix something that went wrong during the first one) on that same knee, so I have scars from all of that. My left knee is a war zone.

I have just one other set from my appendectomy. They went in through my belly button and one other location just a little under it, and I have two of the tiniest, almost invisible white lines as scars from that.
 
I have 3 c-section scars, a scar from my hysterectomy (which was similar to a c-section incision), 4 little scars from having my gallbladder removed. I have very small, almost unnoticeable scars on my nose, top lip and chin from dog bites. And I have a weird scar on my right knee from falling off my bike when I was 8 and hurting it very badly.
 
1 on my knee,but faded now,from watching the circus on tv,and thinking I would like to be a line dancer / trapeze artist. But our yard had stones,and the washing line wasn't strong enough. LoL.
Various small ones from doing silly things like trying to open cans.
 
I love reading about everyone. Getting to know you all one scar at a time, lol!

I have one in my eyebrow, no idea why, possibly a chicken pox scar.
Three on my belly from having my gall bladder out.
Then various scars from pimples and cuts and what not.
And my two story scars are:
1. I have a sort of scarring on my left elbow because we were doing cartwheels in the church hall and I forgot to put my arms down. I went thump and slid about 3 feet on my elbow. I had horrible carpet burn and it has left a nice big (but not very noticeable) scar.
2. I have a scar between my 2nd and 3rd toes on my right foot. When I was about 12, I was walking through the camp grounds to the river to catch yabbies (linked for your convenience, lol) for fishing and I stepped on an ant nest. At that exact moment my friend threw the yabby pump at said ant nest. The yabby pump sliced my foot between my two toes. It was quite deep but not bad enough for stitches. I noticed about 5 years ago (yep took me that long) that I don't have full movement in my 2nd toe. When I bend the others, it stays put unless I really concentrate to move it.
 
Oh my ..I have a bunch of small facial scars from chicken pox and other childhood mishaps. Once I fell down the flight of stairs and hit a metal ashtray stand (talk about the old days...) That was a hairline scar with stitches. Then I cut my upper lip on a rusty nail climbing over a fence. No stitches but I did get a tetanus shot at age 4. Then an appendectomy scar. I was fine for a couple of years til age 17 when I had a tumor on my thyroid and has the subsequent surgery. THAT scar has stretched and gravity dropped over the many years and now looks like I cut my throat. I didn't but about 20 years ago met someone who did.

No C-section but a pubic hairline scar from a tubal ligation.

Lately, as I've had various skin bits frozen off I have more little scars across my face. While insurance pays for the freezing it doesn't cover the scarring but what makeup doesn't, doesn't bother me. It's just the price of years of sun damage.
 
My scars make a map all over my body...
I was born with a bilateral femural dysplacia/double hip dislocation which means my hips weren't attached to the pelvic bone, plus, in my case, no soft tissue, no ligament. This was in the late 50s, (I was born 1958)so a hip replacement was a sci fi thing.... my first operation was ..I think I was 6 months old.
9 operations until I was 8 years old for the same, doctors kept telling my parents the hips kept coming out of the socket and that I would NEVER walk....
I did though, aged 5, thanks to my parents faith.
With each operation (9 until the age of 8) they left me with very very long scars along my hips that went down the side of my thigh almost down to the knee....and it made keloids too, which for a while stopped me wearing bikinis... those are in both my hips/legs.
Then when I was 18 months I had an umbilical hernia operation but is so very small you can't really see it.
I had an accident on a motorbike when I was 17, very little scar in my knee.
I had a nose job (cosmetic surgery) my parents gave me when I turned 18 as a present (no scars though)
I had a sacro-coxis cyst/pilonidal sinus cyst thing removed from my back (well not quiet , a bit lower when your bum starts but none will go looking for that, so counts as not visible!) I was 23
I had an operation in my vocal chords about that time but also no scars.
My C Section from when I had Sarita but not only is that very well hidden.. but even if you look, it is very faint, a week after Sarita was born, Andy would pierce a vitamin E capsule and drop the contents along the scar. I would also cover my whole belly during pregnancy with olive oil (yes, the cooking/salads one) and did not get any stretch marks.
In 2003 I had the hip replacement that left me in the condition I am today, failed miserably along with the other 3 or 4 operations they did trying toi fix the error. In one way, it was good as it fixed the keloid at least in one leg (I didn't let them operate in the other one after the fiasco of the right leg) still..... I had 42 staples...so you can imagine the length of it.
2014 I think it was I had my gall bladder removed by laparoscopy, which means 3 or 4 very tiny incisions you can't really see...
Funny many of you mention chicken pox scars... I don't have any nor does Sarita ... I do though, have a lot of scaring my teenage acne....but it really doesn't bother me anymore...
I had other procedures abut non scaring (at least not physical LOL)
I often wonder about taking photos of the scars and making a page or 5.... but not sure is something people like to see...I may just make it for myself!!!
 
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