Poll: What scars do you have?

[Shapsters]

SCAR TISSUE THAT I WISH YOU SAW!!

I have a cleft palate, my lip was split in half when I was born so yes I have many a scar. My lip is on big scar, I have a scar on my chin and a HUGE one on my arm from an operation. Oh and one one my eyebrow from walking into a sign at Wal-Mart...

 

[Shapsters]

In chronological order:

Top lip: I was born with a cleft lip. As a baby I had surgery to repair it, but the scar's still really obvious. It makes my lip peak off-centre. Doesn't bother me, though - I think it looks interesting.

Eyelid and temple: chickenpox scars. The one on my eyelid is right on the edge, and no eyelashes will grow there. You wouldn't notice it normally, but if you look closely it looks odd.

Hip: Big one from a bone graft operation when I was 8.

Elbow: Two small scars from a car accident - got cut by some broken glass from a window. One's a short line, the other's a tiny triangle. The interesting thing is that the triangular one was a much worse injury than the other - it was quite deep - but now it's barely visible. The line's much more obvious, even though it wasn't much more than a scratch.

And none of those - except maybe the chickenpox scars - were my fault. (I wasn't driving the car, in case you were wondering.)

Cleft buddies! I still need one more surgery for the bone-graph. Did you have the palate as well or just the lip? And if yes to the palate, how did they fix it?

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

oh, goodness. well, here we go...

i have three on my head-one at the hairline from cracking my skull as a two-year-old, one over my ear from a hairpin, of all things, and one at the back from smashing my head on a fire extinguisher.

then, i have a long one on my back-a cut from fence wire (i liked to play in construction sites as a child-i think i was looking for prince elfangor, but i'm not sure).

adding to those, i have two on my left leg, from a hip and an ankle surgery, respectively, and a few marks on my right, from a biking accident (a gear broke off and ended up IN my leg-it was not pretty).

finally, my favorite story, the one on my left arm, from a dog. it was a chihuahua, and i guess i pissed it off by walking home from school, because the stupid rat leapt its fence and bit my arm.

i'm considering tattooing, to cover them up. but i don't know if ink will take on scar tissue.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I have loads, but they're all either tiny or so very thin so you can only see them in certain light.

Most of them are on my hands from using small saws and Stanley knives in design tech or from my cat. Then theres a long thin one down the top of my left arm from narrowly surviving having a suitcase dropped on me. And theres a few bigger ones on my chest from when I was a kid and had the chicken pox.

 

[EmeraldGreen]

In chronological order:

Top lip: I was born with a cleft lip. As a baby I had surgery to repair it, but the scar's still really obvious. It makes my lip peak off-centre. Doesn't bother me, though - I think it looks interesting.

Eyelid and temple: chickenpox scars. The one on my eyelid is right on the edge, and no eyelashes will grow there. You wouldn't notice it normally, but if you look closely it looks odd.

Hip: Big one from a bone graft operation when I was 8.

Elbow: Two small scars from a car accident - got cut by some broken glass from a window. One's a short line, the other's a tiny triangle. The interesting thing is that the triangular one was a much worse injury than the other - it was quite deep - but now it's barely visible. The line's much more obvious, even though it wasn't much more than a scratch.

And none of those - except maybe the chickenpox scars - were my fault. (I wasn't driving the car, in case you were wondering.)

Cleft buddies! I still need one more surgery for the bone-graph. Did you have the palate as well or just the lip? And if yes to the palate, how did they fix it?

No, just the lip (thank goodness!). It did affect the development of my upper jaw a bit, apparently - hence the bone graft. But it hasn't been that troublesome, really. The only surgery I needed was the initial corrective operation and then the bone graft. There was some talk of plastic surgery to straighten up my lip and hide the scar, but since the scar doesn't worry me, we never followed that up. Every so often, though, someone looks at me and says, "Hey, you had a cleft lip, right?" and then tells me a long story about why they're able to recognise cleft lip scars...

 

[mrblindcat1]

got a good for inch scar going down my leg from some glass

 

[Shapsters]

In chronological order:

Top lip: I was born with a cleft lip. As a baby I had surgery to repair it, but the scar's still really obvious. It makes my lip peak off-centre. Doesn't bother me, though - I think it looks interesting.

Eyelid and temple: chickenpox scars. The one on my eyelid is right on the edge, and no eyelashes will grow there. You wouldn't notice it normally, but if you look closely it looks odd.

Hip: Big one from a bone graft operation when I was 8.

Elbow: Two small scars from a car accident - got cut by some broken glass from a window. One's a short line, the other's a tiny triangle. The interesting thing is that the triangular one was a much worse injury than the other - it was quite deep - but now it's barely visible. The line's much more obvious, even though it wasn't much more than a scratch.

And none of those - except maybe the chickenpox scars - were my fault. (I wasn't driving the car, in case you were wondering.)

Cleft buddies! I still need one more surgery for the bone-graph. Did you have the palate as well or just the lip? And if yes to the palate, how did they fix it?

No, just the lip (thank goodness!). It did affect the development of my upper jaw a bit, apparently - hence the bone graft. But it hasn't been that troublesome, really. The only surgery I needed was the initial corrective operation and then the bone graft. There was some talk of plastic surgery to straighten up my lip and hide the scar, but since the scar doesn't worry me, we never followed that up. Every so often, though, someone looks at me and says, "Hey, you had a cleft lip, right?" and then tells me a long story about why they're able to recognise cleft lip scars...

Ah damn, you got off really easy. I have had tons of surgeries, a few of them were complete failures.

 

[ffxfriek]

one on my right finger knuckle on my left hand. punched a kid with a knife and slashed open my knuckle on it. i got him first though. 1 on my right knee from falling down an escalator, 1 from falling down stairs, one on my head from playin star wars with croquet mallets, plenty more these are the better ones.

I think scars tell a story... sort of.


Probably my favourite one is on my lower arm. Skin + sauldering iron + melted metal = awesome scar.

good sir is that from doing stained glass by chance?

 

[thepopeofatheism]

I have a few but the most noticeable is a one-inch scar that extends across my right cheek starting at my nose.
What is it from?

From when I was two and a dog [i/]bit my face off.[/i]

I wish that was hyperbole.

 

[reg42]

I have one on my foot from a lot of years ago. I was cutting a branch with a saw, and it went straight through and intp my foot.
I have 2 on my legs from hot plastic dripping on me
I have one on my hand from where someone I know hit me with a rubber on a stick until it drew blood. Then again, me picking at the scab can't have helped much.

 

[Snotnarok]

One above my left eyebrow: Ran into a car
Another on each knee: Various activities as a child
One on my finger: Bicycle cog pierced the tip of my finger all the way through
Large one on back: Removing large cyst/surgery.
One on my leg: No idea

 

[asinann]

Most of mine can be hidden by my clothes fortunately.

Upper left leg: Fell on icy bark dust
Left knee: knee replacement surgery
Lower left leg: shattered bone replaced with metal

Left hand is a mess of scars, have 2 under my eyes from having a plate put in (they look like bags, good bit of surgery there.)

 

[MissGinaKid]

I have one scar on my nose. I don't remember this happening but when i was little and hiding under the dineing room table. i peeked up and hit my nose on the side and it left an indent that is gonna probobly be there for life.
This has been your pussy story of the week. Tune in next week for leg cramps after less the a mile walk.

 

[Romblen]

I have one right under my nose that, according to my parents, I fell down on a sidewalk and scratched my face when I was a little kid.
I have a scar on my arm from a burn I got on an oven.
I have one on my left middle finger, it's not really noticeable, just a small bump, but it's been there as long as I can remember.
There's a scar on one my toes that looks like a T. I have no idea how it got there.
I have one on my stomach after having some kind of skin problem when I was 5.

None of these scars are really noticeable.

 

[TheTim]

scar from chin gash
scar from knee surgery
scar from shoulder surgery
scar from opposite knee gash.

others but im too lazy to think of

 

[aLivingPheonix]

I got one on my right elbow and one on my right hip, from a while ago, when I was on those little shoes with wheels on them, I crashed, went flying and landed on my elbow/hip, and it hurt like hell. I also got one on my left knee from when I was like 3, and tripped.

 

[AWAR]

I once fell sideways while riding a bike wearing shorts 9 years ago. I slid some 15 metres on my left leg, I got a massive scar which looks like i got it from a burn or something >.>

 

[yoyo13rom]

Just one scar from when I dived into a pool, in witch a piece of metal(from the from those thingys that divide the swimming rows) was sticking out.