Scars

[pseudobrit]

['jaws' time]
Anyone have any cool scars?

I took a stick (the blade of a SyNergy Grip, to be precise) in the face tonight and eight stitches under my nose and across my cheek. I left about a pint of blood on the ice. It was deep as hell and will likely leave a nice scar after it's healed.

I also have a knife wound scar in my left palm. It severed the nerve so I had it microsurgically repaired, which added two more cuts on the scar. It looks eerily like a lightning bolt from the SS insignia.

What about you folks? Got any cool scars?

[macka]

Sure do. My other (not so signficant) half knocked his bike into mine.
I crashed into a window and I am now the proud owner of an inch long scar on the outer edge of my right hand.

Of course I took revenge. He became the (not so proud) owner of an ugly scar on the knee from a really deep graze about two weeks later.

This all happened when we were 10 years old. :cool:

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Hmmm - two dog bites to the right hand and wrist (when I was in my teens), and an operation to my left wrist (about the same time) left me with what looks like a suicide attempt!!!

Also, I nearly got the top of my right middle finger cut off (hung by a thread) when I was 4, and I put my hand in the way of a shovel coming down...

I've also a row of scoremarks between my right thumb and forefinger when I was sawing a piece of wood. I was busily engaged in a conversation with someone at the time - until he pointed out what I was doing, and noticed the blood spraying everywhere...

Once I was ankle-tapped whilst ice skating, and was sprawled face-down on the ice. But to add injury to insult (!), the jerk then proceeded to run over my left index finger. Lots of blood, and a nice scar. They had to close the rink for a bit to clean up the aftermath. Isn't it cool how ice makes the mess look like a slaughterhouse? :p

I've a nice scar on my left arm from an African Blister Beetle whilst I was in Zimbabwe a few years back - it vomits acid all over its victim to aid in digestion. I was a little too big to eat, but it gave it a go anyway.

That's all I can think of - apart from the two little scars either side of my left knee after the Arthroscopy operation.

Well? Whad'ya EXPECT after 34 years of existence? Bubble-boy?!?

:D

[macka]

Man....kiwi you deserve an award.

"Most accident-prone man" or something.

Gotta love the avatar, I think it puts [your horrendous experiences with saws and beetles] nicely for you in a much more visual way. :D

[takao]

only a few small, unnoticable ones like,cuts on hands but i have to look closely myself

i bite my tongue once which had to be treated in hospital
and once i fell down and had a wound on my forehead with blood running all over me

but no scars
i never had broken any body from my body i guess i'm lucky hehe
but bloody knees as a child sometimes were normal i guess

[WinterMute]

I have a small scar on my forehead from being hit with a Newcastle Brown Ale bottle at a party, it used to be hidden, but I'm getting old and bald.... :p

I have a small puncture scar just above my right kidney where a girlfriend stabbed me with a pair of long-handled nail scissors.... loooong story..... don't ask :D

I also have some scarring on my right knee from kneecap splitting contact with a chair in a recording studio.

Anyone want to hear about my mates infected vasectomy scar?

Didn't think so.... :eek:

[kiwi_the_iwik]

IAnyone want to hear about my mates infected vasectomy scar?

Didn't think so.... :eek:

Well - on a BRIGHTER note, it wouldn't really matter that much if the two veg. started falling off the guy...


Imagine down the pub:

"Hey - wanna see the scar? It sticks out like dog's balls... LITERALLY."


Ewwww!

[thatwendigo]

Let's see... I've got a couple, most of them injury-related, though surprisingly not brought on by my six years of contact sports.

On my left knee, just above the patella, I've got a row of four gouges that came from the gearplate of a bike I was hauling out of the back of a car. I was wearing shorts, and it swung down and cut me before I could do much about it. The cuts bled pretty freely, and are still visisble about ten years after the fact.

I've got a surgery scar at the base of my spine, from the removal of a pylonidal cyst. They had to cut a lump of flesh the size of a golf ball out of my back to be sure they got it all, and the skin's a little puckered and still has scars from the stitches they had to use to hold it together.

There's one below my lip, from when I faceplanted into a sandbar while bodysurfing. My upper tooth went through the skin. It's mostly covered by facial hair, these days.

My right knee has three small scars in a radial arrangement, the leftovers of a bout of arthroscopic surgery for a torn MCL. Funnily, it's not from my weightlifting days, though it was discovered because of them. I had a car accident, and two weeks later, I had the knee go out from under me while doing squats with more weight than most people max (I used to work out with about 350 pound bards). Luckily, my partner caught me enough to slam the bar into the rack. A week of consulation, two MRIs, lots of prodding, and some other hassle later, a surgeon decides it's best to go ahead and look around inside, and that's how they found the tear.

My right nipple has two near it, but those are boring. Just moles I had taken off. :D

[rjrufo]

Ok, strange topic, but I'll contribute my part.

I have a few scars on my face from a bike accident, and four false teeth because of it.

I have a stab wound scar to my left hand from being stupid, I was cutting something and had my hand in the way. The knife went clean through.

I have various scars on my elbows and knees from when I was a kid.

And, I have a scar on my abdomen from being shot by a BB gun back in high school.

I think kiwi should get an award for the most exotic cause for a scar... :)

[Dr. Zauis]

I have a scar on my right ankle from a dog bite when a was 8. It looks almost exactly like the Nike logo.

[Kingsnapped]

I have one scar in the middle of my left hand from where a pen penetrated it (no real damage, thankfully)
A scar over my right eye where I had seven stiches from an iron gate knocking me out.
Two scars on my right hand from a car door (middle finger) and a over-powered break in a game of billiards.
And my ankles look like they've gone through a garbage disposal once or twice from five years of skateboarding.

Chicks dig scars, powerbooks and puppies... all of which I carry around on a regular basis. :D

[AppleMatt]

I've got 2 main ones;

- One on my arm from lifting a cut-up metal bath, it went through me like a hot knife through butter. As it's quite large (it pushed open and got infected while healing) I'm going to try and convince my doctor to put me forward for scar revision. *crosses fingers*

- One on my knee where my friend thought it was "funny" to knock me off my bike, in the process smashing my knee open. 8 years later it still hurts on cold mornings :)

And lots of little ones, fag burns (from other people), cuts, nicks, the usual you get from having pets and lads running around all day every day, usually drunk or hyper.

AppleMatt

edit: I forgot, a thin one around my eye. But that was because I was the complete idiot running around hyper trying to hit my friend with a piece of wood. He ran through the door and I followed but unfortunately the stick was wider than the door frame so instead I just went *WHACK* into the stick and a staple sticking out of it cut around the side and bottom of my eye, which to be fair was quite lucky.

[Savage Henry]

After being savagely attacked by a sharp edge of an opened can of corned beef, I received a slight nic on middle finger of my right hand.

[wowser]

I puched a wine glass as a kid, trying to do kung fu moves. it shattered into my hand. It looks like a small walking stick in the palm of my hand

[cb911]

pseudobrit, that's no good. sorry to hear about that. if it's on your face alot, you really should try to leave as little scaring as possible. get the doctors to do a good job on you and leave it as smooth as possible. otherwise it'll be a bitch to shave. :p

i've got a few scars on my shins... BMX accidents. one on my shoulder from riding along and a woman opening her car door on me. also got a nice big 4cmx1.5cm scar on my elbow from that one... one about 3cm long on my forehead from when i fell on a rock at 3 years of age. nasty scars on my hip from coming off my pushy while riding down hills. also big scar on my right knee from falling stacking my pushy as well.

and that's only on a BMX, and i'm getting a motorbike as soon as i can afford it. :eek: :D

[vniow]

I've got one on my left wrist where my cousin accidentally burned me with a hot pan when we were baking french fries.

I also had one on my left eye (I think) when I was in middle school or so that went vertically from above my eyebrow to below my lower eyelid, it would have looked really cool if it turned into a real scar, too bad it healed up, bah.

[kiwi_the_iwik]

BUT WAIT!!! THERE'S MORE...

(Talking of interesting injuries)

I SHOULD add that I have a small scar around my left eye, and also scar tissue on my left cornea - some kid brought in an air rifle to school when I was 7 for show-and-tell (unheard of, now!!), and cocked it (no pellet), firing it at point-blank range into my eye...

I can remember it well:
I'm sitting on top of my desk, chatting to some other kids, and I hear - "Hey - look at THIS...". I turn, and see the gun... <BANG!>

Charming. I ALSO remember (a few years later) kicking the crap out of the little bastard, for that and a few other nasties he'd performed on myself and my friends.

Ain't poetic justice cool?!? :p

I STILL have fuzzy vision in my left eye - A surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital is considering an op. to repair the damage, as it has started to get a lot worse over the last few years, and keratoconus has set in. Nice... All due to some little twirp and his air rifle.

:mad:

Luckily, I film with my RIGHT eye...

;)

[toontra]

I have a 2" scar down my left cheek. I was dating a girl in Paris - she didn't tell me she had a boyfriend. I went over to her birthday party & we were dancing - I'd noticed this guy giving me strange looks & when my back was turned I felt this thump to my face & a lot of blood - it was a stanley knife. Crimes of passion are tolerated in France so I didn't bother calling the law!

I was quite drunk at the time so stuck a bandage on it & didn't do anything else till I got back to London the next evening. Needed 15 stitches. Still a visible scar - doesn't bother me really.

Other assorted leg indentations from 8 years of rugby twice a week.

[billyboy]

I chopped the top right corner of my thumb off with an axe and I have a piece of my arm skin grafted on the missing bit, so my thumbprint is sort of wierd. It was a bummer because I had been in training for months for a rugby tournament and literally minutes before I was due to head off my dad asked me to chop some kindling and firewood so my gran wouldnt die of cold while we were away. Guess I was thinking of other things.

[gwuMACaddict]

4 incher on the inside of my right calf from burrying a chain ring just a little too deep during a mountain biking crash... assorted scars on hands from who knows what

[ExoticFish]

when i was a baby i fell off the coffee table and hit my chin so that my bottom tooth when through my bottom lip

when i was ten i was running around and put both my arms through a plate glass window... i have NUMEROUS scars on both arms, luckily none of them are too large, i had a towel wrapped around each arm and they were drenched in blood by the time i got to the emergency center, but i only needed 4 stitches.

i have a 1" scar right around my eye brow that blends in luckily from a basketball accident when his arm collided with my eye and lucky me the male scull has a sharp point under the brow... well it cut straight through and i was standing there and felt sweat dripping down my face cause it was hot... sure enought i went to wipe it away and my hand was covered in blood. i reached up and touched my own shull... that's an interesting experience! i needed however many stitches that my then step dad was too cheap to pay to take them out so i had to do it myself.

that's all the scars i have luckily with all the times i hurt myself! my place of work bought me my own box and bandages cause i kept using all of the supply for everyone else with all the times i cut myself... i'm getting better about it though! :p

[blueflame]

I got a one incher from running away from mean turkys. I had t jump unserneath a razer wire fence and i got caught on my shoulder. its a good 1-2 inches long.
Turkeys are evil, the know to go after the jewels
Andreas

[Santiago]

Well, I have a two-inch long scar on top of my left foot, from where I ran into a steel bar near a construction site when I was around 4 or 5. I have a a few teeth marks around my left knee from where I was attacked by a German shepherd when I was five. They're barely visible these days, but given much I've grown since then, they now look more like a bear's bite than a dog's.

Then, I have a pair of symmetrical scars. On my left hand, on the knuckle at the base of my index finger, I have a small bumpy scar from an impetigo infection in 6th grade. On my right hand, in the same place, I have a little centimeter-long wavy scar from where I bit myself in a car crash. I was talking and gesturing at the time, when our vehicle (driven by my dad) hit the one in front of us at about 25-30 mph. My head snapped forward, and my canine punched a hole in the back of my hand. I didn't even realize it until several minutes later, when I noticed a fair amount of blood on my hand.

And, it's not really a scar, more of an accidental tattoo, but there's a small black spot on the skin between my right thumb and index finger where I tripped and jabbed a pencil I was holding into myself in the third grade, and the end of the lead broke off.

[rainman::|:|]

when i was a kid, i accidentally bit through most of my bottom lip, just about severing it... so i have a lovely railroad (where you can make out the stitches) below my lip. It's only noticible in certain light, or when i have my face contorted right. But i see it every damn day. Considering looking into surgery to reduce the appearance.

All of the rest of my scars seem to disappear after a few years. I had some pretty nasty ones on my arms, but they're gone now. I had most of my left ring finger pulverized a few years back, and they reconstructed it, so it looks like frankenstein's finger... but even that is slowly regaining a more normal shape...

paul

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Oooh - I remember that I got ONE more scar - and It's amazing I'd forgotten about it. Maybe it was just one of those mental blocks you have when something traumatic happens to you...

There we were, back in 1994, travelling over Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia. I was working for Beyond 2000 at the time - and we were travelling out of town from the airport, heading towards New Jersey - halfway through a 2 month trek across the US, the Caribbean and Africa. The crew consisted of four of us - Camera, Sound, Producer and Reporter, along with 57 assorted flight cases all stuffed into the back of a Ford Aerostar.

The problem was, however, we never anticipated the puncture...

OUT came all 57 flight cases in order to reach the spare tyre - which unhelpfully occured right on the bridge itself. Needless to say, we weren't flavour of the month amongst the drivers who had to avoid us.

As I was trying to remove the hubcap, the screwdriver I was using spun outwards, collecting me in the right hand. There I was, confronted by a flathead that had passed THROUGH the skin between my thumb and forefinger (I STILL remember it hurt like a bitch). LUCKILY (or so I thought), the reporter we were travelling with just happened to be a Medical Doctor - her field of scientific speciality.

"Great! Caroline - can you check THIS out for me, pleeeeese?!?" <yelping in pain>

All she did was scream. Some feckin' doctor...

:rolleyes:

[Josh]

When I was about 3 or 4, I was standing behind my older brother (who was 7) while he attempted to toss a ball up, then hit it with a bat.

Whell I can't remember if he hit the ball or not, but he caught me on the backswing and hit me right between the eyes.

It cracked my nose and my nose was literally hanging off my face, and it resulted in 13 stitches and I now have a horizontal scar across the very top of my nose. Its easy to see, but not obvious.

Then I had a sharp bmx bicycle pedal dig into my calf and rip out 3" long, 1/4" deep gash...that was 6 stitches and a scar. Those same pedals turned my shins into a mess of scar tissue as well.

About 3 years ago, I was climbing a tree to build a deer blind. I had a hammer and bucket of nails in one hand, and was climbing with the other. When I reached to a limb and began to pull myself up, the limb broke and I fell about 15'. I dont know what exactly caused it (Im guessing a branch) but I now have a 3" long scar on the inside of my left arm.

2 years ago I was skateboarding and a friend and I were seeing who could hold on to the back of a pickup truck and go the fastest before letting go. He got to 25 and let go...I made it to 40....the board started wobbling and hopping like crazy, so I didnt have a choice but to jump off. Little did I know, I could not run that fast (at the time, I didnt know how fast we were goin). After rolling down the street, I got myself a nice gash in my hip, and now there is a dime-sized scar thats barely visible.

My knuckles are have many slinder scars on them, but Im not too sure what they are from - been there as long as I can remember.

I also have a 6" very visible scar just under my arm pit by my pec...it seriously looks like I had some sort of surgery, but I never have and Ive never been hurt there. I do not have a CLUE where, how, or when I got that scar.

(Im 19 if that helps)

[fistful]

oh boy!

as a kid:
-1'x1'' gash on my inner right calf from a muscle biopsy
-1'' scar on left eyebrow from falling off a slide
-2 scares on my lip, I guess I tried to put a live plug in my mouth as a toddler. :confused:
as a teen:
-1'' scar on right pointer finger from a busted beer bottle
-2'' scar across right wrist from smashing a window with my palm

[mnkeybsness]

Let's see...

One just under my chin from when I was 10 trying to do a bunny-hop on my bike... we'll just say that I biffed that one and ended up with 8 stitches in my chin--looked like a little goatee.

A year later, my brother and I were riding our bikes like scooters (right foot on left pedal and pushing with left foot). We were kind of racing to the garage. I won, jumped off of my bike and he was right behind and next to me coming in. His right pedal went through the back of my leg, making 5 1-inch wide and 1/2-inch tall and 1/2-inch deep holes in my left leg, just below the calf. The doctor said that he could see the Achilles tendon and that I was very lucky that it didn't get ripped apart.

About 3 years later, I was cutting an apple and the knife got stuck on a seed. The point of the knife stabbed upward right into my left palm, cutting the artery and nerve that goes to the index and middle fingers. I now only have 10% feeling on half of each finger (between the two). Luckily I was only in 7th or 8th grade and I was still playing my violin on a daily basis. That made for great rehabilitation.

I have a small burn scar on my right forearm where my oldest brother decided to show me how to make a match burn twice... "Hey you wanna see a match burn twice?" He asked. "sure," I replied. He lights the match and says, "Here's once." Then he blows it out and sticks it on my arm, "Here's twice!"

I have another small scar on my left pec from when I was 10 and fell on a log... don't know how that's still there.

I have a lot of other miscellaneous scars on my knees and arms and back from biking.

Two scars under my tongue from two surgeries to have a cyst and my sub-lengual salivary gland removed. That wasn't fun... I'm allergic to chlemdamyacin, the most common anesthesia... it makes me stop breathing completely for a few hours... I had 2 nurses by me for about 6 hours-one keeping me awake and the other telling me when to breathe in and breathe out... it sucked a lot.

But the crown jewel...
Last year I was playing capture the flag and being very sneaky by climbing across a cliff to find the other team's flag. Long story short, I fell about 15-feet, landed on my neck on some rocks, and rolled around until I finally came to a stop. After opening my eyes and realized that I wasn't dead, I saw a member of the other team walking to me to see if I was alright. I saw his armband color and said "oh sh--," got up and ran away as fast as I could. I couldn't find their flag so I settled with tagging someone out of the jail. Since we got "free backs," I stopped to gather myself and everyone around was like... whoa you are bleeding all over. So I went and washed off quickly in the river, came back out and someone exclaimed "You're STILL bleeding, EWWWWW!" I looked down at my shin where they were pointing and saw a lot of blood. I looked closer at it and said, "Aw crap I can see the bone." I lifted my leg up in the air and said, "can someone tie something on this so it stops bleeding?" The person that was trying to do it was tying it really loosely and I said, "Aw you suck!" So I took the cloth they were using and just tightened it so much it made everyone around me cringe. Fortunately, the hospital was just on the other side of the hill and a street. I got about 15 little shale pebbles taken out of the hole and had it stitched up. While the stitches were in, I was able to pop out 2 more little pebbles. Now, there is just a big purplish scar on my right shin and a bump in the bone because it calcified a bit.

Chicks dig scars
:cool:

[leftbanke7]

Last year I was playing capture the flag and being very sneaky by climbing across a cliff to find the other team's flag. Long story short, I fell about 15-feet, landed on my neck on some rocks, and rolled around until I finally came to a stop. After opening my eyes and realized that I wasn't dead, I saw a member of the other team walking to me to see if I was alright. I saw his armband color and said "oh sh--," got up and ran away as fast as I could. I couldn't find their flag so I settled with tagging someone out of the jail. Since we got "free backs," I stopped to gather myself and everyone around was like... whoa you are bleeding all over. So I went and washed off quickly in the river, came back out and someone exclaimed "You're STILL bleeding, EWWWWW!" I looked down at my shin where they were pointing and saw a lot of blood. I looked closer at it and said, "Aw crap I can see the bone." I lifted my leg up in the air and said, "can someone tie something on this so it stops bleeding?" The person that was trying to do it was tying it really loosely and I said, "Aw you suck!" So I took the cloth they were using and just tightened it so much it made everyone around me cringe. Fortunately, the hospital was just on the other side of the hill and a street. I got about 15 little shale pebbles taken out of the hole and had it stitched up. While the stitches were in, I was able to pop out 2 more little pebbles. Now, there is just a big purplish scar on my right shin and a bump in the bone because it calcified a bit.

Chicks dig scars
:cool:

The real question here is did your team capture the flag?

[Giaguara]

right knee - i hurt it when i fell down when i was 10 and riding a bike.

right leg - about 1,5 in x 1,5 in. i burned it with a bmw exhaustion pipe (whatsitcalled..) (motorcycle) a few years ago.

hands are full of small scars. i hurt them a lot.

right arm, some scars that make me wear long sleeves all year.

right palm, a pink area sized 25 cents .. i burned it cooking 2 months ago.

plus some otehrs..

[Doctor Q]

Are men usually proud of their scars and women ashamed of theirs?

[macka]

Are men usually proud of their scars and women ashamed of theirs?

It depends on the kind of scar, where it is, and how you got it. Of course the men tend to achieve their scars doing something mildy impressive...like sport or (exotic beetles? :p ) whereas the women are more likely to have gotten scars from doing something stupid....like botched plastic surgery:eek: :D , or picking up glass when told not to...so generally I reckon that yes, men are proud of their scars and aren't afraid to show it. As so evidently seen in this thread.

[davegoody]

I have a 9" scar on my right side, just above the hip, was from a small operation (well started small anyway), but for a while it was a really easy way to pick up women, told them it was a shark bite - looked really bad - sympathy is a great way to pick up women ! :p

[Giaguara]

Are men usually proud of their scars and women ashamed of theirs?

hey i'm a girl and i happen to like mine.

having a scar from a motor cycle, a huge one from cooking etc .. they give charachter ... arrr!!! ;)

[wdlove]

I don't really have any scars to speak about. A small one from a dog bite, which was my fault. Also a small scar from my small pox vaccination. All of my other cuts and scrapes healed without scars.

[SiliconAddict]

Last summer I was hiking in the Boundary Waters and after making camp I felt like scouting around. I'm guessing I was about 200 yards out from the camp site where I ran into a nice ledge that had about a 10-15 foot rock face that dropped down and hit a (guessing) 60* incline that ran about 100 yards. Well I was enjoying the view and didn't realize that the rocks under foot were fragmented and (You see this coming don't you?) It gave way. I fell and started rolling. Call it luck or call it reflex but I somehow grabbed a branch and turned a roll into a slide that gradually slowed down but not after going about 1/3 - 1/2 the distance down the hill.
I seriously messed up my cloths and ripped the crap out of my jacket. I just laid there for awhile looking up at the sky thanking god I didn't break my neck or anything else for that matter. I had some nice bruises, scratches, and one messed up ankle that took an extra day to firm up but nothing that would have killed the trip. Since then I've learned the hard way to never assume any type of cliff edge is stable. Very STUPID mistake on my part that could have cost me my life.

PS-Thankfully my buds came looking for me after an hour. I somehow crawled back up the hill and scooted around the ridge to get back on solid ground but shot of crawling back I wasn't really going anywhere.

[Kyle?]

I have a scar on my lower lip caused by biting through it after hitting a bump, losing control of my bike, and slamming into a split rail fence when I was about ten. Knocked the fence over. That scar is amazingly hard to spot.

Only three months ago, I chopped off the corner of my left little finger with a miter/chop saw. I didn't hit any bone at all, though I took off more than half of my fingernail and pretty much one side of my finger. It's truly amazing how well it has healed. I didn't get all the way to the root of the fingernail, so it has come back almost 100% normal. The scar is very minimal, even though I had to completely regenerate tissue in that area by, as the doctor said, second intention (no grafts).

Oh, and by the way, emergency rooms suck. I shot a brad (small nail) through my thumb another time and between both of these injuries, I was waiting for almost 10 hours. With my finger, the nurse asked if I had waited a day or so to come to the hospital since it had already started to heal. The only reason to go was for the cephalexin (antibiotic).

[Big Bad Voodoo]

['jaws' time]...I took a stick (the blade of a SyNergy Grip, to be precise) in the face tonight...

Niiiiice.... Mine came from old school wood sticks, one between the eyes (5 stitches), and one on my jaw (37 stitches - 23 outside/14 inside). :D

-voodoo

[pseudobrit]

Are men usually proud of their scars and women ashamed of theirs?

You gotta be proud of it when it's on your face.

"Where'd you get the scar, tough guy? Eatin' ------?"

[pseudobrit]

Niiiiice.... Mine came from old school wood sticks, one between the eyes (5 stitches), and one on my jaw (37 stitches - 23 outside/14 inside). :D

-voodoo

Ever catch a skate blade? I'm just waitin' for that one.

[pseudobrit]

Oh, and by the way, emergency rooms suck. I shot a brad (small nail) through my thumb another time and between both of these injuries, I was waiting for almost 10 hours. With my finger, the nurse asked if I had waited a day or so to come to the hospital since it had already started to heal. The only reason to go was for the cephalexin (antibiotic).

It was four hours 'til I got done. About a half-hour to an hour waiting to see a doctor, another hour or so for them to get their **** together and then about 1/2 hour for the stitches themselves. Then a CT scan and more waiting.

I was negative on a fracture and they wouldn't prescribe anitbiotics. My family doctor has since put me on Cipro.

The novocaine barely worked; I felt almost every stitch. I wish I'd been playing semi-pro. I'd have been stitched up without novocaine and back on the ice in ten minutes. I love hockey.

I can't wait for the bill. But thank God it's not that accursed socialised medicine, there'd be such a wait, and I wouldn't get to choose my doctor like with my PPO![/sarcasm]

[kiwi_the_iwik]

MATE - Nothing beats a decent Judo injury...

I threw some guy at a tournament once - he went over in a BIG way, perfect arc, and that stuff. Unfortunately, he didn't really like the idea of being chucked, so he put out his free hand as he went over. The problem is that in tournaments, when you throw someone, you want them to STAY thrown - so there's a lot of energy behind the throw.

And you can see THIS one coming, can't you?!?

The impact sent his forearm pretty much out of his judo jacket at the elbow - compound fracture, lots of blood, and a large quantity of sick spectators...

Ewww!

[Awimoway]

All my cool scars are on my face.

A week before 9/11 (I remember this because I was still sore and bedridden a week later), the first day of a new semester, I was bicycling home. While crossing a busy four-lane road, in the crosswalk, an Ecuadorean tourist in a rental car (from a company that had no business renting its vehicles out to tourists without insurance) thought she had the right of way--apparently pedestrians are fair game where she's from--and plowed right through me. I rolled across the hood, smashed the windshield, and skidded across the pavement.

Amazingly enough, no bones were broken and the only lasting scar is a pale patch of skin on my forehead. The worst damage was to my mangled new bike, my smashed Palm PDA, my ripped-up clothes, and I was covered in bruises and road rash. For two weeks I spent every morning at the doctor's getting my wounds re-cleaned and dressed. The tourist spent a week in a ratty local motel with no car and had to give me all her cash to pay for the bills, bike, and PDA and she flew straight home, canceling the rest of her travel plans. The second bike was soon stolen. I gave up on bikes.

My other facial scar is as old as me--the nurses refused to cut my fingernails when I was a newborn (I can't remember what their stupid-ass reason was) and I promptly gave myself a vertical gash on the cheek that can still be seen today (I'm 28).

[cb911]

he he. :D it's funny how everyone wants to talk about their scars, but no one talks about other peoples, and probably don't care either. i know i don't... :p

[jazzmfk]

Not a scar story, but a funny one nonetheless.....

Every December 31 (weather permitting), my family used to go ice skating after dinner to pass the time before the big ball dropped. There was a small lake in our neighborhood that was fairly well lit by the combination of streetlights, porch/deck lights, and sometimes, the moon. Well, one year my Mom fell and landed pretty squarely on her chin, getting a big bruise, as well as splitting open her top lip. My Dad brought her to the local hospital, and while waiting, anyone who came in looked at my Dad with complete disgust, and my Mom with pity. After about the 5th person gave my Dad the evil eye, he went outside and waited in the car.

It seems that the bruised chin and split lip looked for all the world like he belted her.

After a year or two went by, this became one of our oft-told family stories.

MFK

[7on]

I have a vertical scar under my right eye for when I was a baby. My Mother says a bowl/plate fell and cut it.

I have another scar on the inside of my left elbow from a rusty nail

Several on my legs from when I stepped on some barbed wire fencing stuff (that was curled, or bowled) and it came up and hit me in the shins. Much like those cartoons with the rake.

I got a recent one when my X-Acto knife slipped and gashed open my left index finger. I rapped it in linen tape and finished class.

[mrdeep]

I have a scar on my chin from flying over the handle bars on my bike as the tires stopped, its quite noticeable when i don't shave for a couple of days.

One on my right arm from climbing a fence and being pulled down when i was at the top.

And one on my left arm from getting burnt on the oven while baking cookies ... err i mean a bar fight, yeah, thats it a bar fight. GRR!

[Big Bad Voodoo]

Ever catch a skate blade? I'm just waitin' for that one.

I never did... to be honest I've only ever seen one, and that was on TV years ago. Anyone remember Clint Malarchuk (sp?) with the Washington Caps? Nasty - skate blade slashed his jugular... looked like a fountain. :eek:

-voodoo

[wdlove]

I was just thinking of an interesting idea. Is anyone willing to post a picture of their favorite or most weird scar? :cool:

[ThomasJefferson]

OK heres the scar story. When I was a kid, a friend of mine and I built a treehouse in his backyard. While climbing to the said treehouse, I slipped and fell. A NAIL sticking out of one of the 2*4 steps went THROUGH the side of my wrist. I dangled for a second, then it RIPPED through the skin. Lucky tho, it was only skin ripped open, no nerves/tendons etc.

ugh!

[Opteron]

Just a few on the belly from and apendix opperation,

Plus knees and elbows form numours bike crashes, and Field hockey on SuperGrass (that awful sand based stuff)

[musicpyrite]

I got one on my left elbow. Stupidly, when I was about 10 years old, my friends and I would ride the back of the mail truck around the neighborhood. :D And you guessed it, I eventually fell off, the scar is about 2 1/2 inches long and about 1/4 and inch wide, it was made by a peice of gravel that had worked itself into my arm.(Thats not nearly the stupidest thing I've done; won't say no more here :D :D :D )