um ok we listing scares?
right toe from kicking a broken bottle bare foot playing army
buch oh lil hair line scare on the bottoms of my feel fromm stepping both feet in the shirt box that had xmss bulbs in it.
both shins have various scares from my horse day (barrel racing)
right knee from sliding into second.. tore open and we were winning so i didnt go get fixed.
inner thigh up high by my stuff from being jumped with a knife in an ally outside of geary ind.
apendix scare
hole scares from where my nips used to be pierced
right shoulder from rotator cuff surg.
inner elbow right arm some kind if sist removal surg
left eye brow where some low life hit me with a piece of pipe while repoing a car
left cheek and lower left eye from hitting a guard raid at 65 on my motorcycle.. lot more little scares from that.
and on big scare on my heart from being broke so many times.

I'm thinking this can now go on this thread, It will match the scar I have on my right ear from a dog that didn't like me throwing his tennis ball. Now I have a semi matching ~at the moment cut~ to be a scar on my left ear.
Copy posting from the what made you :| thread.
:2butch:I went to the barber shop.:chainsaw: Sporting my Lizard skin cowboy boots, the lady started cutting and was doing pretty good, then she got to the left of my head and started to say that I have beautiful boots. All of a sudden, I felt a yank and warm fluid dripping down my ear. Yup, she buzzed my ear lobe. I guess I have to add that to my Scar thread!
First thing that came out of her mouth was Oh no, are you gonna sue me??? I said, well actually no, but if my ear was lying on the floor then perhaps we would have talked about it. She was nevous the rest of the hair cut, lol. She said, it don't hurt?? I said nahh, I really didn't feel it, she said you one strong man! I said yeah, until I come in with a full head cast tomorrow... Maybe next time I will try Petsmart :junesmiley:

I guess my most interesting story scars are on my face. One runs across the both temples, both eyelids, bridge of my nose and into my hairline on one side, one under my nose and up one side, three on my forehead... the ones on my cheeks have faded to a point where only I can trace the lines barely from memory.

I had two surgeries at Mayo to smooth and lessen them, straighten my nose and remove glass that remained after the initial cleaning and stitching. I received them in a bar on a winter night about 17 years ago when some guys realized I wasn't male but a female and it pissed them off so they decided to give me a try.

But on the bright side they walked off in at least as bad a shape as I did.

i have too many scars to list...all work related. however, i do have an interesting middle finger on my right hand. i put my hand in a blender when i was 9 years old.

holy baba ganoush ! :blink:

Atleast she recognized the fact and apologized ... i have one person where I go that I won't let him touch me. Always has been pretty rude to me and has nicked me twice ... i thought he got me the last time he did my hair and but didn't see the blood til I go home. Luckily the last few times I've gone he hasn't been there. If he's my only option when i go sometime I'll wait or leave!

Haven't visited this thread in a while...
~chuckles~ I have a few more Character to add.
Cat bite on the left arm, bad kitty!
Box cutter between my thumb and pointer, I looked up to see who was talking to me while opened a box I was receiving as well as my hand.
And some knicks I keep getting, I still don't know where the heck I am getting them from, but they say "Surprise"

Ohhh well, I am like an old truck with character. I guess.

A few scars
 

My thoughts ExACtAlly. :blink:

I have my scars. I like the term "Badge of Honor" attached to some scars. They show your metal and what your made of. A survivor's badge.

I have a series of scars from fights growing up. Both in and out of the ring.
One over my eyebrow, growing faint now, from a skateboard to the face.

If you know where to look there are several others from cigarette burns. The largest being just below the small of my back.

The most noticeable ones I have are my fingers. They were broke at a very young age, and, after being left untreated are a bit twisted and crooked.

I look at each old injury as a badge. I survived. I earned the right to brag on them if I so chose.


Good thread, thanks.

Ok..I have a mental scar that fits this bill. Where as I didn't draw blood, thank Moses, I will definitely NEVER forget it. I cringe any time I see anyone get racked.

I was about 10 or 11 and was riding a mountain bike way too big for me at full speed around a blind corner. I ran into a parked car so hard I went up on the trunk and the back of the bike tried to pin me there. Now ya'll may remember how the mountain bike handle bars were. They came up from the frame and then forward into a T shape. I wrapped around it.
How I ever walked my bike home that day I just don't know. I was told to "walk it off".
Smeh..I walked straight to an ice pack!! :|

My scars are all surgery related. Some little and almost invisible and some really big scary looking ones. I sort of wish I had some character building scars with stories behind them, but sadly no.

Melissa

I only have one significant scar that I got this summer due to sugery on my abdomen. It really doesn't bother me. I don't know if that is weird, or not.

I think scars from surgery are certainly character building!!!
I had my first ever surgery 2 months ago.

I had to have my left ovary removed, so I have two small scars on my lower abdomen.
Those scars actually mean a lot to me. I feel very proud of myself at how brave i was through the pre/during/post surgery.

Then there is my scar from where I used to have my eyebrow piercing.
That brings back good memories of younger days.

And then that weird innoculation/s scar on my arm that some others of you seem to have too.

I'm not sure I'd call them character building. Some of them are quite literally battle scars, while others are just representative of painful memories.

Remaining scars:

My left shoulder has some scarring that I received some years back. I'd rather not get into detail about how I got them, as it represents a particularly painful time during my life.

I have a scar that looks more like a dimple on my right cheekbone as a result of the last fistfight (hopefully the last one ever since I want that chapter of my life to remain closed) I was in approximately 3 years ago.

I have another scar on my right bicep from being dragged up a flight of stairs by my father as a kid. Was cut by a wooden corner of sorts at the top of the stairs.

I recall having more scars before, but I must heal well or something cause they aren't where I remember them being anymore lol

I've got quite a few scars.
One is on my left knee where a white fluffy kitten named snowball thought it would be cute to use my knee as a scratching post with one of her claws.

Another big one was from when i was almost 15. I went to cross the street and some old lady going 45mph in a 25mph zone hit me. I flew a good 5 feet into the air and the sidewalk decided that it was going to take a nice chunk out of my arm.

I used to work in a sub shop and i managed to somehow miss this massive glove that i was wearing to take out the bread from the oven. That wasn't a pleasant one.

If you look really closely at my body you'll see the scars from when i used to cut. Scissors were my weapon of choice because the pain was just as good but didnt require too much medical attention. I still think about it as well, but i dont miss those days. If i want the high i used to get i just spend alot of money on a new tattoo.

I'm the reason why they put CAUTION: SHARP BLADE on things like saran wrap and aluminum foil.
I always put cling wrap on my new tats while im sleeping so it stays moist and the scabs dont fall off. I was getting ready for bed and was about to cover the one on the back of my head. I pulled off a chunk of cling wrap and my knuckle got caught in the blade. Its on my right middle finger starting at the base of the knuckle going past it. I was far too stubborn to go to the hospital (which i really regret now) and put it in a splint for 2 weeks. After i thought it was healed, i managed to split it open at work in front of a very cute lesbian couple and my boss. (She still makes fun of me for it). So i put it in a splint again for 2 weeks. Now its been nearly 3 months. I still dont have full movement in it, it still hurts very badly everytime i touch it, and my finger has this large mass of scar tissue on it. My mom, and people in the health and medical field are convinced i may of cut a nerve or two and possibly my tendon.

What did i learn? Its very possible to do what you thought was only a myth. I used to think you'd have to be pretty stupid to cut yourself on something like that, until i did it.

I think that with scars, you cant put them in either category. You have to go through some pain to get them, which would be considered a battle scar. On the other hand, each scar tells a story and in someway you had to grow as a result of it. :)

I think scars are amazing and I have earned every single one of mine.
Most of mine are work related, but I love my job.

Right eyebrow ( my eye was busted open by a huge mountain of a man on dope, that also had mental issues and was convinced that rather than carry him off to jail that I was an alien wanting to use his brain for experiments)

Right shoulder ( stabbed by the mother of a 19year old boy that didnt think her son should pay for his actions)

Left hip and thigh ( gun shots from the night my twin sister was shot and died)

Left knee ( motorcycle wreck kickstand popped out as we tumbled down and went through my leg)

just under right breast ( shot at close range with a .22 )

my latest....left arm the stitches are still so we will see how pretty it turns out lol

I typically do not keep scars. I have one on the inside of my left ring finger. I managed to get that mark this pas tJanuary when I was sick with the flu. Boiling hot soup + vertigo = third degree burn. It is fading so unless I show you the line, you may not notice it.

I have a bikini line scar from 3 C-sections and a hysterectomy. My OB-GYN closed me internally with steri-strips so this scar is flush with the skin and barely discolored. It is very sensitive though.

I also have a few intended scars from the artistic cuttings I have had done in the last year and a half.

BUT, since I do not keep scars, two are faded to the point you cannot see them-maybe if I point them out. I have one, a butterfly, that has been cut three time-most recently in March and it is fading. The most recent, a vine with a rose, was done in June so it is still clearly visible. However, she cut deeper with the vine/rose and went over it more times than she did with the butterfly.



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I was just talking to T about this, this morning...

I have scars that I hate. One is an appendectomy scar and the other from cysts that I had. They make me insecure. But T says they tell about me...
I am working on being ok with them...Wish I didnt scar so easy :p

Okay, now I'm adding the Fire Ant scars on my feet and legs, these I call Battle scars because they sure hurt and on some of them even when I tried to pull them off, their head broke off! Ouchhhhhhh This year their out with a vengeance and no matter how hard you try to get rid of them, they just move! From one side of the house to the other, from one yard and back.
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Scars
 

*right heel - at three I was riding on the back of a bicycle, got my barefoot caught in the spokes, broke my little leg in three places, and almost completely severed my heel
*left eye, at 5, fell out of car
*Chicken Pox vaccination
*hand - using a sharp object to cut out a design on a piece of rubber - slit the skin area between thumb and pointer finger - didn't bleed that much, and it looked rather oddly cool to see the muscle below the slash.
*right foot - walking to the pool, barefoot, stepped on a broken coke bottle, felt it stick, but didn't look down, tried to kick it off, and jabbed it into the ground and my foot.
Now, the only place I DON'T wear shoes is in my own shower.
*hand - many years ago, Hardee's gave out free Looney Tune glasses, one night while washing my favorite Tweetie glass, it popped open and sliced the inside of my hand.
*stomach - c-section - they opened me up and gifted me with a beautiful baby daughter
*lower back - blown disc - working out, tried to push too many pounds with my thighs
*Neck - Hit from behind in my car had to have surgery to correct blown disc -

I have a scar going across the bridge of my nose from a cat that scratched me!

I have three scars on my left knee from knee surgery

I have a scar on my left knuckle from a speed shaving incident, lol. Don't know how it happened but it bleed for like 2 days, lol.

I have another scar of my left hand from touching the top of the toaster oven

That's about it! :-)

My list is short and boring, but it is mine none the less.....

1. 5 year old Nekohl flips the porch swing backwards and lands on her chin. Good for 4 little stitches.

2. 13 year old Nekohl gets the chicken pox. And so, not only was I the fat kid with the funny last name, now also with HUGE poc marks on my face. Lol huge deal to adolescent angsty me, not a huge deal to grown up awesome me.

2. 20 year old Nekohl furiously carving and sculpting with knives. Knife slips and lands into the medial side of my thigh just above the knee. I pulled it out, wiped off the blood and kept creating. (May or may not have been in an "altered" state, it was college after all)
Later, once I had finished with my sculpture, I realised that I had blood running all down my leg and over my foot. Quite a mess. Probably should have gotteon a stitch or two for that one.

Thanks, Miss Scarlett, that was put beautifully.

There is a sentence in my recovery that promises me that, if I do the work that I need to, "I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it".

That promise has come true for me. And for my own internal scars.

What a great thread :) Thank you Blaze, for leading me here!

I guess I will start top to bottom, since I have no chronological memory....

My left eyebrow has a scar from 3 stitches I received as a result of falling off a hassock onto a wood floor when I was about 8.

My bottom lip has a scar from 2 stitches I received at age 3 as a result a fall from the kitchen chair I was playing on (while watching my mom make pancakes) and landing on an old metal heater

I have a scar on my nose where my cat scratched me because I was wearing a towel on my head (after a shower) and it freaked her out...I was a teenager then

I have a chicken pock scar on my chest from having the chicken pox when I was 12

My left inner elbow has a scar where I needed stitches after having a glass window break on my arm. It was my own fault lol I was pressing on the glass to open the window since I couldn't reach the sash. My gram told me it would break some day....I just wanted fresh air while I watched Saturday morning cartoons...That one was the coolest to me...I had a huge gash and on the way to the hospital, my mom told me keep it covered with the face cloth...but the bleeding stopped and I could look in the big gaping hole and see tendons and stuff...shoulda known then that health care awaited me lol

I have small scar in the middle of my right hand where I interrupted a dog fight with our Mastiff...and he didn't know my hand was there and he bit down. I couldn't feel my hand for 3 days....but that's the only scar from that...

I have scar on my left ring finger from trying to catch a falling coffee mug that I was washing....didn't quite make it.

I have a scar on my RIGHT ring finger from trying unsuccessfully to extricate my cat from a pit bulls mouth. The only thing I could think of was to activate his gag reflex by sticking my fingers down his throat, but he just bit down harder... that one still makes me sad...

I have a small scar on my belly button that I THINK happened when I was very pregnant for my oldest daughter. My belly was huge and I was forever bumping into things..and I'm pretty sure I burned my belly on the stove...but I don't feel pain like other people...so...I don't know for sure

I have another scar from chicken pox on my thigh...

I have a scar from stitches on my right ankle. When I was little I was playing around the metal hatchway cellar door (after my dad told me not to) and it fell on me and pierced the skin...I'm lucky it didn't break my leg.

I'm sure there's many others...those are the most obvious and memorable...

duh....

I forgot 2....

Left wrist, I had surgery to remove a ganglion cyst...I wear a bracelet on that arm pretty much always now...it's an ugly scar...

Left forearm...I have a burn scar that will always remind me of when I worked at Dunkins..... yay

I have a c-section scar and I'm thankful for it since the emergency c-section was the only way to get my baby out and safe his life.
Also I have several little scars on my arms from kitty scratches... :)

I have many scars from accidents and surgeries, both old and new. My catastrophic motorcycle accident in April of 2011 left me with some very serious injuries from which I am now, (miraculously), almost 100% healed. I've had seven major surgeries since then. I go right back to riding and working after each and every surgery, usually in a fraction of the projected healing time, so I feel as if I should have absolutely NOTHING to complain about. That doesn't stop me from obsessing about the changes to my pelvic bone structure on the right side where I sustained all that breakage from blunt force trauma. Plus the two long scars on my hip and right thigh. The scars are surprisingly delicate and flat looking, but I always notice them right after I notice the strange shape of my right ilium whenever I look in the mirror. It makes sense since I'm a sculptor, but I'm also obsessional.

There's one scar on my body that I deliberately asked for. The fact that I had nine significant breaks in my lumbar spine as a result of that catastrophic accident, but had no injury whatsoever to my spinal cord, is truly miraculous. Every single medical professional who has seen the films and/or the report has asked me how it's possible that I'm standing. My answer each time is that it's a miracle. I never want to forget to be grateful or to take it for granted.

I asked a friend to do a cutting in a spiral flame pattern over the area on my lower back where I failed to sustain an injury to my spinal cord. I wanted a scar, but no colour change. I made the drawing, and she felt a strong connection to it. That was important to me since she's both an accomplished artist and an Apache Medicine Woman. She wore her ceremonial buckskin, said prayers, and made offerings when she made the cutting. It healed instantly with almost no scarring. Of course. The second time she went over it the scar remained more visible. I really want to notice it whenever I look at my back in the mirror. I may soon ask her to go over it a third time.