What's the story behind that scar?

[pablocruze]

I was slicing a dill pickle on the meat slicer in the delicatessen when I sliced off the tip of my right thumb.

What about your scar?

[JM28Cardiff]

Scar on abdomen from an operation when I was 11. I had sprung a leak internally, and water was collecting around my right testicle......is that too much info!!!

[JDH]

The one on my chin's from a dodgem injury when I was three, the one on my forehead is from going head-first through metal doors when I got pushed over playing five-a-side football indoors, and my knees are slowly turning into two big masses of scar tissue, the legacy of me now playing outside on sand-covered astroturf.

[Tattoo-X]

Which one?

Right indext finger
- - can of berries when very young
- - ran through table saw

Left thumb
- - band saw

Left chest
- - bike crash in a ditch around age 5
- - collapse lung

Two on right arm
- - put arm through window around age 5

Lower back
- - Tubing and a hit rock

FACE
Right side
- - hit myself with veneer
- - while logging, wrestled in snow, fell into sticks
Left side
- - dove into rock
- - firecracker mishap
Center
- - dog bite or scratch - very young

Many, many others. Many I don't remember. Several that have almosted faded away or completely faded.

[abarron]

Which one?

Right indext finger
- - can of berries when very young
- - ran through table saw

Left thumb
- - band saw

Left chest
- - bike crash in a ditch around age 5
- - collapse lung

Two on right arm
- - put arm through window around age 5

Lower back
- - Tubing and a hit rock

FACE
Right side
- - hit myself with veneer
- - while logging, wrestled in snow, fell into sticks
Left side
- - dove into rock
- - firecracker mishap
Center
- - dog bite or scratch - very young

Many, many others. Many I don't remember. Several that have almosted faded away or completely faded.

Damn
Nothing really i have one or two minor scar just from cuts a bruises i got that didn't heal right.

My dad has some pretty good ones though

Finger nearly sliced off with a piece of steel.

Ear done when he slipped on some ice.

Both wrists from surgery

[Babytoxie]

11 years old, tripped while roller skating, landed chin-first on the sidewalk. It turned into a nice Harrison Ford scar.

1-incher across the scalp over my right ear, quarter-sized on my right trapezius - skin cancer

1-incher across my left palm. A bottle of OJ I was holding slipped and hit the counter, broke in two. The bottle cracked right up my palm and laid it open.

[armitage]

I got my eyelid split in two when a guy hit me with a big @ss ring. Now I have a nice scar there.

[cblakey1]

Around the groin area - hernia when I was 7.

Left ankle - nailed by the roof of a classic car that people cut off to use as a sled. It was rusted and had like five kids on it when it came careening down the hill and nailed me. I was 10.

Left elbow - wiped out on a ten speed when flying down a street. My foot slipped off a pedal and it was al over. The scrape/cut went all the way to my bone. I passed out when saw it. I was 13.

Chest - firecacker exploded on me. It was summer and I was sweating like a pig. Me and some friends were lighting firecrackers and throwing them at each other. Well, one hit me on the chest and it ws held on by the sweat and *BAM*. 13 was a bad year.

[VinReaper]

Hmmm.....

Where to start? I will document injuries as well as scars. all things that are permanent! :D

Left Knee: 6 years old: Rusty door latch on a metal locker. Me being stupid and jumping of a bed and accidentally catching on the latch.

Right Middle finger: 12 years old: Can off dog food. Lid was still attached and didn't realize it as I grabbed it to dispose of it.

Right Palm: 16 years old: Knife wound: As I had gotten locked out of my apartment by my friends playing tricks on me. I proceeded to bang on th door open handed and flat palmed. You can guess the rest.

Alright I tell you more. Idiot friend thought it would be funny to stick a steak knife out of the peephole and as I didn't see it. And did not expect the door to have a steak knife sticking out of it, I slammed my hand down onto the knife and watched it protrude from the back of my hand. Not a fun day after that I assure you!

Left wrist: 17 years old: Permanent misalignment of wrist joint from Judo Training. It looks fine, but will at times lock for a second and then snap back into place. Not a big deal. Occupational hazard.

Right ankle: 18 years old: US Army training. Torn ligament and stress fracture during jump school training. Re-occurring injury due to weakness of area from first injury. Just tape it up and walk it off. Not a problem!

Left wrist: 20 years old: Shrapnel hole: Accidental miss fire on the range. Ball bearing from buckshot lodge in wrist and is still their today. And was done by one of my closest friends.

Left Pectoral: 22 years old: Broken Beer bottle: Mutli person brawl in a bar. I was a bouncer and while dragging one member of the fight out, one of his adversaries decided to attack him while I had him subdued. Nonetheless I turn the one I had in hand away from the attacker and the attacker decided to attack me. So after get a cut from his beer bottle I threw the first subject out the door and dealt immediately with the my broken beer bottle wielding friend. Needless to say. He doesn't play with broken beer bottles and more. Not sure if he can even hold a beer bottle anymore.

Left thumb: 23 years old Permanent/reoccurring stress fracture: Martial Arts Grappling injury.

Lower back & Left Knee: 34 years old: Tear of the left side meniscus tissue in left knee and two herniated discs in lower back. As I was a passenger in a vehicle that was hit while stopped at a light by joy riding 16 year old kids in an SUV doing 60mph that the stole from their older brother while he was away at school!

That was probably my luckiest escape from death.

14 months of Physical Therapy

I consider myself lucky since this is all that has happened to me so far. And I had been a Bouncer for various night clubs for over 12 years, in the military, am a hunter, train in full contact martial arts and obviously have a bunch of idiot/maniac friends.

Someone upstairs is looking out for me! :D

After reminding myself of all that I feel sore. May have to get a massage today! :thumbs2:

VR

[abarron]

Chest - firecacker exploded on me. It was summer and I was sweating like a pig. Me and some friends were lighting firecrackers and throwing them at each other. Well, one hit me on the chest and it ws held on by the sweat and *BAM*. 13 was a bad year.

Dude
You play with fire your gonna get burnt

[risingstar]

My left thumb - When I was 11 or 12, for whatever reason, the can opener wasn't working properly. I thought I could simply slice the rest of the can open with a sharp knife. The knife slipped out in mid slice and cut into my thumb just below the nail... I felt like such an idiot afterwards. I really knew better too.

[cblakey1]

Dude
You play with fire your gonna get burnt

Well, I proved that theory to be true. :thumbs2:

[cblakey1]

My left thumb - When I was 11 or 12, for whatever reason, the can opener wasn't working properly. I thought I could simply slice the rest of the can open with a sharp knife. The knife slipped out in mid slice and cut into my thumb just below the nail... I felt like such an idiot afterwards. I really knew better too.

Reminds me of a couple years back. I was fourty-something and was rifling through my kitched utencil drawer. With the lightest amount of pressure I pressed down on a Pampered Chef apple slicer with my thumb. :eek: Went almost through to the bone. It took forever to heal because it was a razor-sharp cut. Left minimal scarrage, though!

[Collection King 13]

Right Forehead - 1" scar - Baseball bat
Back of head - 1" scar - Baseball bat
(same fight, 1 vs 5)
Right Ring finger - Tooth Scar
Right Middle Finger - Tooth Scar and busted knuckle from some dudes nose
Right Index Finger - 3 Tooth scars
(all different fights)
Left plam - Nail in skin scar from a fall on a bike
Left hand between ring knuckle and middle finger knuckle - Paintball shot from less than 10ft...
Left& right knee - a couple of scars from different falls

[Tattoo-X]

This reminds me. My one (of many) firecracker incident was a bottle rocket on New Years Eve several years back. Shot it off in the dark, hit a tree, and came back and exploded on the side of my head.

My collapse lung was from a logging accident that I've talked about before. It included couple herniated discs, several broken ribs, and my left arm broken in 3 places. Worse break one bone specialist had ever seen in an upper arm. No cast or rods. I used my mutant healing factor. Arm is a little bowed though.

[risingstar]

Reminds me of a couple years back. I was fourty-something and was rifling through my kitched utencil drawer. With the lightest amount of pressure I pressed down on a Pampered Chef apple slicer with my thumb. :eek: Went almost through to the bone. It took forever to heal because it was a razor-sharp cut. Left minimal scarrage, though!





Ouch!

[Tattoo-X]

No real big scars. Hands and foreams are totally scared up though from doing outdoor type of work my whole life. Still have a piece of wood under one scar.

One funny thing that didn't leave a scar was shooting myself in the leg with a nail gun. It slid down and triggered the safety against my leg. Figured I better be safe and move it. Bam! Nail stuck in my leg.

[risingstar]

One funny thing that didn't leave a scar was shooting myself in the leg with a nail gun. It slid down and triggered the safety against my leg. Figured I better be safe and move it. Bam! Nail stuck in my leg.


Man alive... That sounds awfully too close for comfort.

[Tattoo-X]

Man alive... That sounds awfully too close for comfort.

Yeah, got myself in the inner thigh just close to the knee.

Now that logging incident was too close for comfort. My co-workers say I wasn't beathing and nor had a heart beat for a few seconds/minutes. Don't remember much of that day. Mostly that I wanted the nurse and Shawna to wake me up for X-Files that night.:thumbs2:

[abarron]

My collapse lung was from a logging accident that I've talked about before. It included couple herniated discs, several broken ribs, and my left arm broken in 3 places. Worse break one bone specialist had ever seen in an upper arm. No cast or rods. I used my mutant healing factor. Arm is a little bowed though.

Woah:eek:
Lucky for me i haven't broken anything. I have chipped a tooth though

[Vince-Vell]

Left Knee - In 4th grade i slipped in the jungle gym and my knee caught the metal corner of the platform and split it open. 8 stitches

Left Pointer Finger - Cutting a resin kit slipped and slit the side of the finger to the bone. Had to get 5 stitches. Did it about 4 years ago.

Left Pointer Finger - Working on a model at the age of 12 had another nice exacto blade moment cutting the top part of my finger.

Right foot - Lawn mower rolled over my foot when i was landscaping during my senior year in highschool. Wasnt wearing my steel tip shoes that day, so cut my boots and cut the skin only on top of my foot. From the pinky toe to the big to where the joints connect to your foot, skin was cut to the bone and pulled back to my ankle. Lucky for me i didnt cut my toes off or my bone. Best part about this one is i got my tetanus shot that morning. When i was drugged up the doctor didnt trust me in saying i had my shot that morning till he looked at my records. No stitches since it had to close and heal itself. So nice big scar there.

Left hand between the pointer finger and middle finger - back as a kid at the public swimming pool. Some girl i was friends with dug her nail into my hand so bad she slit it wide open. But as a dumb kid i just kept playing with a bloody hand.

Left for arm - Working at a kitchen in college a bucket was toppling over from the delivery guys onto the female worker. So as went to move her out of the way the top corner of the bucket decided to make a jagged cut there. So didnt heal very nice.

Few scars on my chest due to stupid tree climbing stunts as a kid.

[abarron]

Right foot - Lawn mower rolled over my foot when i was landscaping during my senior year in highschool. Wasnt wearing my steel tip shoes that day, so cut my boots and cut the skin only on top of my foot. From the pinky toe to the big to where the joints connect to your foot, skin was cut to the bone and pulled back to my ankle. Lucky for me i didnt cut my toes off or my bone. Best part about this one is i got my tetanus shot that morning. When i was drugged up the doctor didnt trust me in saying i had my shot that morning till he looked at my records. No stitches since it had to close and heal itself. So nice big scar there.



damn that has got to hurt

[risingstar]

...skin was cut to the bone and pulled back to my ankle...





Yikes! The mental image alone hurts...

[Sgt Taz]

-big cut (about 2 inches and to the bone) on left shoulder from a scalpel attack

-(very) small cut between the eyes from an arguement with some teachers after they cought us in our room on a trip smoking weed (they were drunk)

-(very) small cut behind the left ear from recieving a punch from a bigger and older (coward) guy while he had his (bigger and older) friends watching making sure I wouldnt do anything

Nothing recent though :)

[Collection King 13]

Oh and I forgot about the Scar I have on my bottom lip... That one my mom gave to me when I was around 4 yrs old... She got mad at me for digging up all her plants and playing with the dirt so she through a teddy bear at me out of frustration and the damn bears hard nose busted my lip... now I have that scar forever!

[goodydog12]

I have a tiny scar above at he bridge of my nose from when I was in high school. I was taking out the trash when I saw a girl I had a major crush on. As I was walking the trash out, I was looking at her and walked into the light post in my front yard.

I sliced my thumb down the middle with a box cutter. Actually, the tendon in my thumb is still in half (not severed though).

[Vince-Vell]

damn that has got to hurt

Ya lucky for me my two cousins were with me who ripped off my shoe and tied my sock around my foot to stop the bleeding.

Yikes! The mental image alone hurts...


Ugh if you saw it, you would puke. just imagine a open wound that had dirt and grass bits inside of it. They couldn't stitch it cause of how dirty it was and said it needed to clean itself out.
:puke2:

[nbr3bagshotrow]

I've got two scars from a double hernia surgery. That count?

[risingstar]

You guys are all serving as great inspirations for Paquet's next piece from the Master of the Macabre series.


:eek:

[abarron]

Oh and I forgot about the Scar I have on my bottom lip... That one my mom gave to me when I was around 4 yrs old... She got mad at me for digging up all her plants and playing with the dirt so she through a teddy bear at me out of frustration and the damn bears hard nose busted my lip... now I have that scar forever!

How that is motherly love

[abarron]

I might have a decent scan but i have never seen it.

I fell down the stairs and hit my head on the radiator ot the bottom. Cracked my head open and it was bleeding loads but didn't go to hospital or anything.

Have never checked to see if it scared or anything though.
I cut my hand on a drinks can too but the scar is really faint

[pablocruze]

When I started this thread, it didn't occur to me that poeple would list every scar on their bodies...silly of me to overlook that one.

Here are more of mine:

1) Scar on chin from falling off my bicycle (I was about 7 years old) while trying to make a u-turn in the driveway and hitting my chin on the edge of the concrete.

2) Frankenstein-like scar through my left eyebrow that I got in 8th grade while playing keep away with a volleyball during recess. Jeff was hauling back to heave the ball and I was rushing forward to steal it from behind. He leaned back farther and faster than I anticipated and our heads collided. His head was shaped kinda like Namor's (triangular) and it split the skin on my brow line. Eight stitches, the day befoe class pictures, so the stitches are immortalized in my eighth grade pic and my classmates were calling me Frankenstien Jr.

3) Scar on my left pinkie from peeling potatoes with a hnad peeler too fast and not getting my fingertip out of the way. I was a junior in high school. Had band practice that night, and the wound opened up and I had blood running down my left forearm and dripping off my elbow. Still have the bloodstains in my guitar case.

4) Scar inside my chest from when my first gilfriend broke up with me...she broke my heart.

[abarron]

2) Frankenstein-like scar through my left eyebrow that I got in 8th grade while playing keep away with a volleyball during recess. Jeff was hauling back to heave the ball and I was rushing forward to steal it from behind. He leaned back farther and faster than I anticipated and our heads collided. His head was shaped kinda like Namor's (triangular) and it split the skin on my brow line. Eight stitches, the day befoe class pictures, so the stitches are immortalized in my eighth grade pic and my classmates were calling me Frankenstien Jr.

:laugh: That would be a great class photo

4) Scar inside my chest from when my first gilfriend broke up with me...she broke my heart.

Oh poor pablo:(

[pablocruze]

2) Frankenstein-like scar through my left eyebrow that I got in 8th grade while playing keep away with a volleyball during recess. Jeff was hauling back to heave the ball and I was rushing forward to steal it from behind. He leaned back farther and faster than I anticipated and our heads collided. His head was shaped kinda like Namor's (triangular) and it split the skin on my brow line. Eight stitches, the day befoe class pictures, so the stitches are immortalized in my eighth grade pic and my classmates were calling me Frankenstien Jr.

:laugh: That would be a great class photo

Actually, it was. I was embarrassed at the time, but it's one of my favorite class pics now!!!




4) Scar inside my chest from when my first gilfriend broke up with me...she broke my heart.


Oh poor pablo:(

Hey, she was HOT!!!! Still hurts sometimes...:(

[abarron]

Hey, she was HOT!!!! Still hurts sometimes...:(


Forunatley me+the wife are childhood sweethearts so i don't really know the feeling.
I did have a girlfriend when i was 10 but i can't really remember what it was like back then

[pablocruze]

Forunatley me+the wife are childhood sweethearts so i don't really know the feeling.
I did have a girlfriend when i was 10 but i can't really remember what it was like back then

Well, it sucks...especially when you are a teenager and your emotions are way out there...:thumbsdow

[Argonus]

Scar IN my right eye (unnoticeable, thankfully) from taking those bozos on (what... a month or so ago?) on one of my studio jaunts in Seattle when they harrassed a girlfriend of mine at a dance club .. that's going to eventually require surgery to fix, no rush for now.

My right foot has an indentation on the bottom of it from pier-jumping, which is what you do to get out past the break of waves too high to swim over/duck-dive under - so like.. 10-15+ footers (if a pier's available). I either hit a rock or something similar as I actually touched bottom briefly.. (which shouldn't happen, but we think it's because the tide was lower than usual and the set was going out). It tickles when I use that foot for kicking when surfing.. haha. Euphoric, almost. My wife and the wives/girlfriends of my friends who join me have forbidden us from doing this after watching us do it a few times, but hahah.. yeah, THAT'LL stop us. :confused2

Probably numerous other ones, but those are the scars that stick out in my mind. :)

[ANGRYCOMICMAN]

Lemme see:
1957 - hernia scar - 12 baby stiches
1961 - Christams Eve - fell with a cup of hot cocoa - 1st & 2nd degree burns on my hand, arm, face. 6 stitches inside, 12 stitches outside on my left thumb, from the broken cup.
1963 - 4 stitches two times from throwing rocks. Right forehead at hairline and one just above my left eye. Boyz will be Boyz.
1971 - stabbed with a 3" pen-knife by a would be mugger, 4 stitches in & out left elbow. Never saw him, just the knife. Someone yelled "hey kid watch out".
1977 - shot at by bad guys with shotgun, 3 small holes in right shoulder, 2 stitches each. Good thing it was birdshot. He's dead. I was a really bad person back then.
1979 - stabbed in throat by a bar patron (female) while bouncing. 6 stitches inside, 12 out. She's brain damaged, now or dead.
1980 - slashed in a bar room fight, left tricep/bicep 20 staples. He's dead.
1993 - stabbed by 2nd X-wife, left hand in web between thumb and forefinger, 3 stitches, right forearm 3 stitches, all from a butter knife and right shoulder blade - 4 prong fork holes. That was fun.
I always remember the bad things that have happened to me.

[mwf6171]

Inch long scar are forehead at hair line from rock thrown by my brother.......the sad thing is the scar used to be above my hairline........ :bawling:

Left knee, three scars from knee surgery this past October........still can't kneel to give my kids a bath or sit for longer than 15 minutes.

Right arm, front site of elbow, was running on top of a fence and fell and jammed a three inch piece of wire in my arm where they draw blood.

Many others on hands and arms from growing up with pets and doing farm work.

[mwf6171]

Lemme see:
1957 - hernia scar - 12 baby stiches
1961 - Christams Eve - fell with a cup of hot cocoa - 1st & 2nd degree burns on my hand, arm, face. 6 stitches inside, 12 stitches outside on my left thumb, from the broken cup.
1963 - 4 stitches two times from throwing rocks. Right forehead at hairline and one just above my left eye. Boyz will be Boyz.
1971 - stabbed with a 3" pen-knife by a would be mugger, 4 stitches in & out left elbow. Never saw him, just the knife. Someone yelled "hey kid watch out".
1977 - shot at by bad guys with shotgun, 3 small holes in right shoulder, 2 stitches each. Good thing it was birdshot. He's dead. I was a really bad person back then.
1979 - stabbed in throat by a bar patron (female) while bouncing. 6 stitches inside, 12 out. She's brain damaged, now or dead.
1980 - slashed in a bar room fight, left tricep/bicep 20 staples. He's dead.
1993 - stabbed by 2nd X-wife, left hand in web between thumb and forefinger, 3 stitches, right forearm 3 stitches, all from a butter knife and right shoulder blade - 4 prong fork holes. That was fun.
I always remember the bad things that have happened to me.

Remind me not to fu@k with you...............:confused2

[touche22]

Scar over left eyebrow, hit with bottle in college.
Scar right knee, spiked during baseball game and need a procedure.
Scar right shoulder, gunshot wound ( work related ).

[ANGRYCOMICMAN]

Scar over left eyebrow, hit with bottle in college.
Scar right knee, spiked during baseball game and need a procedure.
Scar right shoulder, gunshot wound ( work related ).

Hey, me too!!!:thumbs2:

[touche22]

Hey, me too!!!:thumbs2:

Living near Iona, I wouldn't doubt it!:laugh:

[ANGRYCOMICMAN]

Living near Iona, I wouldn't doubt it!:laugh:

It was a long, long time ago.
In the Bronx, actually.
Iona is coolio.
The Coed's are hot.
The cops are always getting in trouble with them.
You might have heard???

[touche22]

It was a long, long time ago.
In the Bronx, actually.
Iona is coolio.
The Coed's are hot.
The cops are always getting in trouble with them.
You might have heard???

:confused2 :sly2: :laugh: