Do you have any permanent scars?

[sundog]

And where are they?

Feel free to tell the story behind them too if ya want.

I'm not talking about scars on the soul... We all have those, and I'm sure some of us have more than a few. ;)

This is about visible scars.

I have a two inch scar on my abs area.

When I was 21, I was working at a day camp. We set up a water slide for the kids & the workers got to test it out. I was the first to go on my belly. Half way down, I felt a stinging. When I got to the bottom I noticed blood was everywhere. Apparently someone had broken bottles on the hillside the night before... just to be a smart ass I guess. :shrug:

Ok, your turn. :7

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yep - one on each side of left knee

From when I had a pin put through it for traction.

They're not very noticable, though.

your glass thingy sounds very painful.

[progmom]

2. A lovely c-section scar have I

Kind of self-explanatory, I guess.

[jonnyblitz]

3. off topic but...

cool avatar. :P I have that movie on my hard drive(downloaded it off a torrent site).

[sundog]

5. thx

Joe :evilgrin:

[jonnyblitz]

13. I DO have a minor scar...

when i was a teen a black light with a jagged metal frame fell from the shelf in my closet as I was grabbing for something else and gashed my upper lip. Hair won't grow where the scar is so I could never grow a full 70's porn 'stache if I wanted to. oh well.

(BTW another Warhol flick named "Heat" with Joe Dallsandro is interesting also.)

[sundog]

14. haha

I've seen them all. Try "Women in Revolt." That's a trip.

My fave is "Flesh for Frankenstein." That was their "big budget epic: :P

[jonnyblitz]

16. I saw the frankenstein one in 3-D

guts coming through the gratings right at you etc. Udo Kier is awesome! :P

Dracula was amusing too when he needed the blood of "WAARE GINS" and the girls kept getting banged(deflowered) by Joe before he had a chance to bite them!

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. I have a half inch scar right next to my left eye...

It looks more like an indent than a scar, but when I was about 4 or 5 I was running in my house and I caught the corner of a table that was in my foyer. I bled like crazy and I was lucky that I didn't hit it a quarter of an inch to my right, otherwise I might have lost an eye!

[atxryan]

6. my favorite is almost as old as I am...

I have a 2 inch crescent shaped scar on my abs from when I was 5 years old (I'm 21 now). I dropped a large glass of sun-made tea and it shattered. Well, like any good boy, I tried to clean it up. So, I picked up all the glass in my arms and sorta cradled it to hold it all. One piece shifted and slid in a curve pattern to give me my scar. It's stayed with me all these years too, never fading.

[ikojo]

7. Psychological or physical?

Physically I have a scar on my neck where my parathyroids were removed in 1999.

I have a scar where my appendix was removed in 1984

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. one in the palm of my left hand

i broke a pen in it and it cut REAL deep, small ones all over my arms from my run-in with a space heater, and for some reason, i have a scar down the crack of my ass

[Dr.Phool]

9. It would take all day to list them all

But the most interesting one is on my lower abdomen where they removed a bunch of dead tissue after a motorcycle accident. I had a hole there you could stick your fist in.

[WillyT]

10. November 22, 1963... April 4th, 1968... June 6th, 1968...

December 8th, 1980...

Just to name a few.

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Chin

Went head-on into a pole when riding down a steep street in a bike. I was 10. My jawbone has a funny shape, although you can't see it from outside.

[pres2032]

12. from the bottom of my nose to my mouth

and on my lower back, both from surguries.

[cags]

15. No scars of my own but....

my sis has a perfectly round scar on her thigh where the handlebar of her bike that was missing the plastic grip went into her leg.

My brother in law has a gun shot scar on his calf from being shot by a robber outside of a bank.

My husband has a scar on his chin from crashing our Sea-Doo into rocks that were just below the surface on the lake. And one on his forehead from a truck rollover in the mountains and he was in the bed of the truck.

Wow I'm pretty lucky

[baldguy]

17. I've got a bunch. 7? 8? I can't remember.

I just counted. I've got 10.

[nini]

18. Plenty on both feet/ankles from a car accident

tiny ones on my knee from arthroscopic surgery.

a C-section scar and a little one on my forhead from the same car accident.

[achtung_circus]

19. A list, not guaranteed to be comprehensive.

1) outsided of right eye from forceps as I was delivered.
2) double hernia,
3) vasectomy
4) star shaped on upper side of right foot- from a pry bar.
5) slice on sole of right foot where the extracted a piece of rubber boot (see #4 for further info)
6) SOmewhat mangled (4 stitches) tip of left forefinger- caught in a chain & sprocket.
7) Gpouge on left knuckle, from carving tool, 4 stitches
8) slice on ball of left thumb from hoof knife (trimming goats' hooves) 3 stitches
Is there a pattern here? Well I hold blades in my right hand.
9) variegated right kneecap from broken glass- I was just a kid I don't remember how many stitches.
10) Lovely punctures from German Shepherd on left calf.
11) Lovely series of punctures and gouges up the right side of my abdomen from another German Shepherd.
12) This cute dimple in my right cheek? Canine tooth of yet another German Shepherd. The scars he left on my upper lip have faded. They were mostly scrapes.
13) Upper lip , scar runs vertically, 2 stitches, bar fight.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. If I were you, I would switch to cats. They don't have such big

teeth as the German Shephard. Or maybe you should get a toy dachshund

[achtung_circus]

31. Not one of those was a dog of mine,

one was when I was a kid and the other 2 were being taken into SPCA custody.

[yellowdogintexas]

43. oh good grief. You should definitely stay away from that

breed, then, obviously they don't like you.

of course these were all probably out of the ordinary situations, right?

[yellowdogintexas]

20. nice abdominal one on the "bikini line" from two major

surgeries:

tube, ovary and endometrial plaque removed in 1982

total hysterectomy with removal of an even huger endometrial mass in 1996

(in 1984 I had my daughter, so got lucky there, normal birth)

dime sized scar on my upper arm from removal of an inflamed mole (negative biopsy)

nickel sized scar on my left thigh from SMALLPOX IMMUNIZATION! yes I had one, I am that old.

yucky double scar on my knee from a nasty fall at school which really should have been stiched but back then they just sent you to the coach and you got a bandage.

similar scar on left knee from close encounter with a nail playing bobsled in a hayloft

on edit: almost forgot about the 7 little white scars from the impetigo I got in my 7 little remaining chickenpox spots when I returned to school. My mom was aghast, and told the doctor she thought only "dirty" people got impetigo, to which the doctor replied "she goes to school, doesn't she?" LOL. (I went to a very rural school with an extreme filthy bathroom. I could have caught the plague and gangrene in THAT bathroom. This doctor knew about those country schools and gave us typhoid immunizations every two years)

faded badly but still there scar on right boob from lump biopsy (negative)

lovely littly scars on my back from terrible backne wars

various cuts and nicks on my fingers mostly from kitchen incidents

[SOteric]

21. Yep. Lots of them.

Not a one of them has ever prevented anyone from finding me charming.

[Swede]

22. A half inch scar under my left eye,and 3 inch scar on my left shoulder.

Both from barroom brawling days twenty years ago.

[AlCzervik]

23. i have a few

gallbadder surgery-old school 15 years ago, the scar is about 6 inches long now underneath my rib cage. My knees from when i was about 11, skateboarding down "Suicide hill" in the cemetery, hit a sand patch, still have the scars. And one above my left kneecap from hit a coral reef in Hawaii, i got a little to close swimmming and a wave pushed me into it and a piece punctued my leg, that thing bled like a mofo when i got out of the water and the air hit it. You should have seen the other tourists on the beach, they thought i hat been bitten by a shark.

[Dzimbowicz]

24. Yes, but nothing major

When I was seven years old my sister threw a rock which hit me in the forehead. It left a scar which I now use as an indicator of my hair loss (LOL).

The other scars are: below my lower lip, just inside my left nostril and on the tip of my chin. I was in a "vehicular accident" while in the USMC. I broke my nose and bit my lower lip all the way through.

I guess I'm lucky in that they are not that visible, with the exception of the scar below my lower lip. I work with teenagers and they always ask me what caused the scar below my lip. When I relate the details of the accident, as gory as they may be, especially when combined with the medical treatment I received, the teens act all grossed out, but still they want more details. Go figure....

[Nikia]

26. I have one from 4 years ago, don't know if it's permanent yet

I have a scar on my knee from when I was biking home from work, a longer way which I thought would be safer. I approached railroad tracks, which weren't on my normal route. I thought that I could ride over them alright. Unfortunately, the tracks caught my tire and I fell off my bike. My knee and a couple other spots were bleeding. I went to the nearest business, which was some kind of marketing office for help. We decided that I didn't need medical attention. Being just an office, they didn't have a lot of medical supplies. They taped napkins around my knee as a bandage. They also helped straighten out my bike and I road home in pain.
The reason that I won't call it permanent yet is because I've bad older scars that have gone away. My oldest scar went away after almost 10 years. I had gotten it while swimming for the Y. At one practice, they had us wearing fins. The ones I chose didn't fit quite properly. The fin rubbed into my ankle laeving a gash that was visible for that long.
Come to think of it, I do have a couple more scars. I have a small one on my arm that continues to shrink after 9 years. I did self surgery with a paper clip on a small hard lump, which was probably some kind of pimple, in class.
I don't know if this counts as scarring or not. I had my ears pierced when I was 4 years old. I stopped wearing earrings when I was 7 years old. The holes have not grown shut. For my friends wedding when I was 22, she made me wear earring, which went through alright.

[nicolemrw]

27. a bunch

lets see... on my left index finger i have two. one from an accident while devaining shrimp, and one from a slip while slicing turkey. on the heel of my right hand, from a cat food can lid.

on my right hip, from an exposed nail in a couch.

the worst though is on my forehead from a fall when i was a kid.

[HeatherG.]

28. Several

The one near my left knee is from when I fell off my bike in a church parking lot when I was about 7. I was learning to ride without training wheels. I have a tiny scar on the knuckle of my finger from being bit by a parrot. I have a larger curved scar on the pad of my finger from opening one of those cat food cans with the peel back lids. It required about a dozen stitches. I have another one from having a big mole removed from under my right breast . I didn't know when I was having it removed wether it was cancerous or not. They took it to get tested and found it wasn't cancerous. The mole was much uglier and more visible than the small barely noticeable scar I now have.

[supernova]

29. A giant "T" in my chest and a long line down my spine

:-)

I have a giant T on my chest. I had heart surgery when I was five. The horizontial top is about 3 inches and the long part is about 5 inches. You can see it when I wear low-cut blouses and bathing suits.

On my back, I have a long scar from about the base of my neck to about the beginning of my behind. I had corrective surgery for scoliosis when I was 14. Again, you can see it when I wear bathing suits.

I don't hide them. They are part of who I am. If they weren't here, I wouldn't be here. :-)

[kittycat1164]

30. a couple yep

one on my leg from a dog bite when I was a kid and my head is dented now where I had part of my brain removed in 2002. My hair covers that completely, so it's not "noticable" and my wrist now has all kinds of scars from surgeries just this year.

edit for spelling

[Blue Diadem]

32. I have a few

two are from tubal ligations. First surgery didn't work, so I had a second one.

I have a weird little finger from washing dishes and sticking my hand in the dishwater and coming out with 1/2 a glass stuck in my little finger.

Then there are the two divots in my hand from my dear old tom cat's teeth. Vet said he went temporarily insane because I had picked up a stray cat and held it, then made the mistake of holding him. Ended up in the hospital with that bite and then two weeks of IV antibiotics at home.

[Samurai_Writer]

33. More than I can count, but the major ones are...

A raised scar that goes almost all the way around my right thumb. When I was 3, my cousin dropped a brick on my thumb and nearly severed it. My grandmother, who was watching us at the time, taped it up with scotch tape. Yes, scotch tape. What can I say, she only had a 7th grade education. When my parents got back from their trip, they were livid.

I have a circular scar on my right elbow from when I had traction on that arm when I was 9 years old. They drilled a hole through my elbow, inserted a wire, and then hung my arm up by the wire. I still have the wire, btw.

My newest scar is one just below my belly button, about 4 inches long, and keloid. It's from having surgery for a paraumbilical hernia last April. And, of course, I have the normal stretch marks that come with childbirth. Have had those since I was 17. No bikinis for me, ever.

I have other scars from scrapes, burns, etc. I'm quite the clutz. I also have small round scars from a skin infection I had 10 years ago on my legs and arms. It's a wonder I can model at all, but photoshop works wonders.

Peace,
Bella

[LiberallyInclined]

34. my sister and I and my two cousins all have scars above one eye...

and all from the same big marble/glass coffee table in the living room of my aunt's house when we were very young. both my male cousin and myself are blessed with bushy enough eyebrows to cover the scars tho.

[HEyHEY]

35. I have one on my left pinky

From playing with coathangers and the fireplace when I was seven, burned myself pretty good

[sundog]

38. dude

coathangers and the fireplace? :wtf:

[KittyWampus]

36. Long Scar Along Bottom Pelvis (2 Ovary Operations) Long Scar Bottom

left leg (car accident where I almost lost my leg).

[LiberallyInclined]

37. not a scar so much as a couple deformed fingers-

when i was 4 the first knuckle(near the tip) on my right hand was crushed in a revolving blackboard. when it healed, two other fingers on that hand also grew callouses in the bome that fused the same knuckle.

[Joe Power]

39. My two dumbest scars

Both involved games of "Chicken" with dangerous items when I was young and incredibly stupid.

A friend threw a homemade carp spear through my foot leaving a nice scar from the top of my foot to the bottom between my big toe and the one next to it.

The other is even more moronic, if that's possible, from a drunken evening of holding our forearms together with a cigar laid between them, seeing who could go the longest without pulling back.

[jmowreader]

40. Massive chemical burns on both shins

These are real beauties, they run from 3" below my knees to 8" above the tops of my feet.

During Operation Bright Star in 1983, I was helping change a 100-pound battery and had to haul the spent one to the truck so we could take it to be turned in. 130-pound soldiers should not attempt to carry 100-pound batteries and I proved this by dropping it. I was fortunate enough to jump back before it landed on my feet, but I got splashed in the legs with the fluid.

Itches like hell sometimes, but other than that no big problems.

[American Tragedy]

41. The most noticeable is the large raised scar tissue along my arm

When I was eleven I was mauled by a yellow lab. The owner had invited me to her house, and as I approached her property, the dog confronted me, snarling. I tried to slowly inch away, but the dog charged and knocked me on the ground easily, digging in its teeth and shaking me like a rag doll. For about five minutes I wrestled with the dog, protecting my throat with my bare hands and arms, until it lost interest.

Afterwards, my mom repeatedly asked me if I wanted to have the scars removed, but I declined. I kind of get a weird kick out of the reactions when my arms are exposed.

[NC_Nurse]

42. I've got a bunch!

1. Forehead, where in the '60's I was standing on the "hump" of my parents car back seat and went flying over when my dad had to slam on the brakes...no car seats back then. Hit the dashboard radio...had stitches. I was 2 years old. My parents said all I could talk about was when could we go to dinner...we were on our way out to dinner. I still love to eat out!

2. Rolled a VW van in 1983 with my 1 year old daughter in the passenger seat. Thank God she was in a car seat! She escaped with a bump on the head. I had no seat belt on, flew out of the windshield (on I-85 in South Carolina) and landed on the median. The van flipped a few times, the last time, bounced off of my leg and STOOD BACK UP! The only reason I'm alive today. Broken femur, have railroad track scars on my right hip and thigh from the rod they put in to stabilize it.

This are the big ones...
:P

[Pithlet]

44. I have a scar on my arm

from burning myself with an iron when I was a teenager. I also have a scar on my right wrist, just above the wrist bone, from where I slipped and fell carrying a stack of child support garnishment checks fresh off the printer. It was raining, and I was more worried about the checks staying dry than anything else, so I didn't catch myself properly when I fell, and scraped myself up pretty bad. That was 6 years ago.