How many stitches have you had in your lifetime (external only)?

[undeterred]

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Between 70-75

not all at the same time
Ouch!

[GOPisEvil]

2. 8 right on my forehead.

I tell small children that I had a 3rd eye removed. :evilgrin:

[undeterred]

3. actually since I posted the question

I keep remembering more and more... I'm like the guy in the picture.

[miss_kitty]

4. me too

I had four stitches in my thumb, and 24" worth down my front, and a few more inches in the back. of course I was stapled shut in the front, not really stitches. One hell of a scar though!

[William Bloode]

5. Much more than 100.

I have had over 100 in my head alone. I worked as a mixed martial artist and professional wrestler for quite sometime. I am now paying the price for it due to severe back problems, and was just placed on disability.

Anyhoo barbed wire matches, and chair shots to the head have me looking somewhat like a rail road map. Yes in wrestling the out come is predetermined, but the effects of the chair shots and barbed wire is not. From MMA, i have had 60-70 stiches in the face from strikes, mostly elbows. I have had to have both eyelids sewn back on lol!

[newyawker99]

6. None.

:hi:

[supernova]

7. Multiples of 100

I've had two major operations with large scars plus the little ancillary ones that come with it (drainage tubes; experimental silks; etc.)

[stlsaxman]

8. ten on the tip of my tongue when I was a kid...

and at least 15 in my fingers during a 20 cooking career, just one of the reasons I don't cook for a living anymore. Saxophones can't cut your fingers to shreds!

[In_The_Wind]

9. 3

I think ...

[Scout]

10. 26-50 so far

I hope not to have more...
3 above my right eye when I was a child
23 external and 8 internal on my left knee
2 for the tubal ligation
Plus whatever they do now to close appendectomy scars (long one) ... then the same incision line was used two more times to fix the hernia I developed after the appendectomy. Plus one for the drainage tube, ick.

[Skittles]

11. a dozen in my shin; computer room accident

engineers were running cables thru floor, used a tile with a quarter cut out. Combine that with raised floor / dark room / bad location (behind printer)(......:o

[Solon]

12. 2...

One in the back of my head when I leaned back in a school chair in kindergarden, then it slipped, fell backwards right into the corner of a desk, that hurt like hell.

Second one was an internal stitch in my right eyebrow for when I slipped in some water at work and slammed my face into a big assed metal plate used in transformers, the big ones, to secure the coils. Weird thing was that they superglued the outer skin of the eyebrow but had to put a dissolvable stitch in the tissue underneath. Let me just say that the doctor saw my bone when he looked at it.

[bridgit]

13. 26-50, way more than my share...

x(

[ghostsofgiants]

14. None, somehow...

Still amazes me.

[SCDem]

15. In a car accident when I was young

Asleep, knocked unconciouncious, then in a coma for two months. My head was in two. That was just on impact then there were 18 reconstructive surgeries in the 13 years to follow which of course involved stitches or tape of some sort of the other.

[undeterred]

18. You're lucky to be here

[SCDem]

19. Thank you!

As one with visible scars... I've been observant of so many others who have inner scars and are faced to deal with them (ever) or at a very late date in life.

Having visible scars forced me to get over all the crap that I needed to go through my self in living with them and anything that anybody would ever throw at me ever in life at an early age. After surviving adolescence I now consider myself fortunate.

Again thanks for your kind words.

[kick-ass-bob]

16. stitches are for wusses.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. What? No abductee's checked in yet?

No one have any mystery stitches? :P
Enquire minds want to know :silly:

Melonhawg

[Divameow77]

20. 30 in my hand

after it went through a window, and some internal ones from giving birth twice, but we won't go there.