Just curious if y'all got any wild scars from childhood with a story behind em lol.
Got this scar on my finger when my big sis dropped an iron on my hand.
Got this scar on my finger when my big sis dropped an iron on my hand.
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Got any cool/weird scars?
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I'm missing a leg and I have a 33 inch scar long down my back from when they tried to rebuild my calf before my leg was amputated.
My leg looked this for over a year before the amputation.
My leg looked this for over a year before the amputation.
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I'm missing a leg and I have a 33 inch scar long down my back from when they tried to rebuild my calf before my leg was amputated.
My leg looked this for over a year before the amputation.
Woah, what brought this about if you don't mind me asking?
This is crazy, sorry to hear it. Sucks that medicine hasn't evolved enough to avoid this kind of thing.I'm missing a leg and I have a 33 inch scar long down my back from when they tried to rebuild my calf before my leg was amputated.
My leg looked this for over a year before the amputation.
Workplace accident. I got crushed by a tracked excavator which broke of both of my shins and ankles, also had an open fracture in my left leg and degloving injury to my calf.
There is a thread about it I wrote ages ago.
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Damn, well I hope you're doing well now and wish you the best mate!
Do cigarette burn scars count? Other than that, dog bite defensive scars and an expandable baton scar (obtained in the same fight as the dog bites).
A few years ago a couple friends and I were longboarding around town, so we decided to bomb the HUGE roller derby hill late at night. I never did any downhill longboarding before, but I had plenty of experience skateboarding in general.
Anyways, we get to the top of this hill and my friends just go for it, smooth and cool. I see them make it down in one piece. It's my turn. I got a helmet on. I kick off and start picking up speed very rapidly. Half way down the hill, my longboard trucks start wobbling, but I quickly move side-to-side and gain control of the wobble. I'm going very fast, but I think I'm going to make down in one piece.
Then out of nowhere a big rock hits my front wheel and my longboard just stops right there. I fly off and land on the asphalt, body rolling 3-4 times at least. Waist, knees, hands all bloody with road-rash. Nothing some alcohol and bandages can't fix, right? The scar on my waist ended up being a large, deep tissue, permanent mess. It's a hideous scar, but I'll always have a story to tell.
Anyways, we get to the top of this hill and my friends just go for it, smooth and cool. I see them make it down in one piece. It's my turn. I got a helmet on. I kick off and start picking up speed very rapidly. Half way down the hill, my longboard trucks start wobbling, but I quickly move side-to-side and gain control of the wobble. I'm going very fast, but I think I'm going to make down in one piece.
Then out of nowhere a big rock hits my front wheel and my longboard just stops right there. I fly off and land on the asphalt, body rolling 3-4 times at least. Waist, knees, hands all bloody with road-rash. Nothing some alcohol and bandages can't fix, right? The scar on my waist ended up being a large, deep tissue, permanent mess. It's a hideous scar, but I'll always have a story to tell.
Do you have a prosthetic? I remember growing up in the 80s there was a lot of talk about how even the basic ones were largely unaffordable, but I have no idea what things are like now. Sorry to use your misfortune to satisfy my own curiosity.
Well, mine might take the cake for weirdness but is perhaps not entirely work appropriate so I'll put it in spoilers.
When I was a wee lad and being circumcised the doctor messed up and almost cut the top half off. It was stitched or something and eventually healed all back together (I just couldn't wear a diaper for a few months). It works fine and all but has a thick scar that goes around the midsection of it.
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Sheesh, in middle school I used to live on a huge hill and got some knock-off skateboard for christmas. Was not a great environment for beginners that's for damn sure. I wiped out a lot and got hit by a lot of parked cars.
I have a Harry Potter size scar on my forehead from running into a door post when I was a kid and another scar under my bottom lip from biting through it when I fell in the bathtub while dancing to a Micheal Jackson song.
I have a large scar on my abdomen from an operation to remove a bowel blockage when I was a toddler. One of my earliest memories is of the surgeons crowding around the gurney attempting to distract me with a Mickey Mouse plush toy. The memory is only a flash so I assume they put me under.
Not terribly cool or weird but it's the only scar story I have.
Not terribly cool or weird but it's the only scar story I have.
I have one across my forehead from when I was a small child. My grandmother had a bunch of vinyl LPs stacked on top of her stereo and I pulled then down and one of the records sliced my forehead. I have two on my chin. One I was about 6 and was standing on the back of a recliner and my brother kicked it out from under me and I hit the coffee table's corner. The other I was a teen and wiped out on my skateboard and hit the pavement. I also have one on my knee from when I was about 8. I accidentally kneed my brother in the mouth and his tooth got lodged in my knee.
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Ha, thanks for sharing anyway. It's wild that you even remember that. They put me under when I was 10 for eye surgery and I can faintly remember the music they were playing.
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He's five years older than me and we were wrestling. I got away from him and tried to run away and his face got in the way of my knee. One of his front teeth broke and was stuck in my knee until we went to the hospital.
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So I had no idea what apple butter even was and googled it, looking at the recipe.. how? Did you burn yourself? If you don't mind me asking lol.
Ah okay this makes a lot of sense now lol. I have a similar story to how I went blind in my left for a whole summer.
I was trying to reduce it on the stove top, the sauce sputtered and landed on my forearm. The next day I had a nice blister which I barely touched and it popped. As it was healing, the scab was accidentally torn off, so now I have a nice scar :)
I sometimes like to tell people it's a scar from a cigarette burn.
I've got a scar on my index finger which I got from closing a pen knife on my hand.
So you know... Big brain on me.
Speaking of brain, I have a scar on the back of my head from an accident where I cracked my head on the rim of a swimming pool.
Now I got this scar as a 6 year old, so I've had it for a long time. But I used to get teased for having a "bald spot" so I became really self conscious about it.
Because of this I've kept my hair long ever since (long for most guys).
Anyway this is the explanation of why I don't have any pictures.
But I'm gonna be brave and actually get my hair cut short soon (first time in twenty years).
So I'll post a picture then.
So you know... Big brain on me.
Speaking of brain, I have a scar on the back of my head from an accident where I cracked my head on the rim of a swimming pool.
Now I got this scar as a 6 year old, so I've had it for a long time. But I used to get teased for having a "bald spot" so I became really self conscious about it.
Because of this I've kept my hair long ever since (long for most guys).
Anyway this is the explanation of why I don't have any pictures.
But I'm gonna be brave and actually get my hair cut short soon (first time in twenty years).
So I'll post a picture then.
Oh, I am very happy that I was young enough to not remember it at all. Or remember that I was walking around like fucking Winnie the Pooh for a while, tiny little baby dick just hanging out for company to see when they came over.
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Funny thing about your story for me is that I have a very faint cut on my index finger because I tried to cut a pen in half with a knife.
Recently did the big chop myself, already miss my afro lol. All the power in the world to you though hope it all works out!
It's evolving now to the point that he'll be able to get a bionic leg, or regrow it via the same mechanism salamanders do (DARPA project), within 15-20 years, so not all is lost.
It's also have an iron scar on my hand, OP. I was a kid, fooling around the house and knocked it over onto my hand. Didn't pull my hand away quickly enough so the scar goes halfway across the back of my hand.
Long straight one above my knee that started about eight inches and shrunk to half that over the decades from unfortunate run in with a Schemie (proto-chav) and almost perfectly circular, smooth one the size of a quarter from a very bad burn that burned through tendon and nerves and required a long surgery. My fingertips are so scarred from cooking and other injuries that I can't use my hands for biometrics. Have to use eyeball.
The most notable and visible scar I have is on my left index finger thanks to an accident with a wood saw. During a camping trip with my dad, I was cutting up larger pieces of fire wood. My dad asked me something and I looked up to respond while cutting, which was a very unsmart idea at the time. The saw jumped out of the cutting grove and across my finger, ripping a chunk of flesh out.
The wound was probably bad enough for stitches, but we were in the middle of forest and me not wanting to end the camping trip ended up bandaging it up at the nearest ranger station. I remember while it healed, I could feel the muscle underneath slide around. At least it healed fine.
I also have a scar on my left arm from 2nd degree sun burn. I had a massive blister and this asshole I knew from Boy Scouts decided to punch me in the arm after he found out I had sunburn. Popped the blister and I had to keep it bandaged for weeks until it finally scabbed over. It's only a minor discoloration now, but you can definitely tell the skin looks different in that area.
The wound was probably bad enough for stitches, but we were in the middle of forest and me not wanting to end the camping trip ended up bandaging it up at the nearest ranger station. I remember while it healed, I could feel the muscle underneath slide around. At least it healed fine.
I also have a scar on my left arm from 2nd degree sun burn. I had a massive blister and this asshole I knew from Boy Scouts decided to punch me in the arm after he found out I had sunburn. Popped the blister and I had to keep it bandaged for weeks until it finally scabbed over. It's only a minor discoloration now, but you can definitely tell the skin looks different in that area.
I have one on my nose. From what I was told, when we were little my cousin dropped a light bulb and the shards cut me.
Also have one above my right inner ankle. Apparently was really sick when I was 1 or 2 and almost kicked the bucket. It remained from an operation.
Also have one above my right inner ankle. Apparently was really sick when I was 1 or 2 and almost kicked the bucket. It remained from an operation.
When I was a little kid, I was at some distant relative's picnic. Like my dad's cousins or something like that. They had a slip 'n slide out. I remember like 3 kids had gotten cut up on it before my, but either all the adults there were morons or they didn't get cut up that bad or in an easily identifiable way.
I go on the slip 'n slide, and the little piece of jagged pink plastic sticking up from it slices me from right under the right pec down to just about the groin. It didn't need stitches or anything, but the scar's still visible. Would always try to make up better stories about it but could never really think up anything good.
I had a perfectly circular one for most of my life from a car cigarette lighter right on the flesh between my left thumb and forefinger, but it's gone now. My dad's car had a cigarette lighter in the back doors, and I took it out and starting waving it in my sister's face pretending it was on as she was stuck in the middle seat next to me. She started freaking out and I hit her with the "Haha, just kidding!" and stuck it onto my hand. Of course, I'm a dumbass and it was heated.
Super, super glad it ended up on my hand and not my sister's face.
I go on the slip 'n slide, and the little piece of jagged pink plastic sticking up from it slices me from right under the right pec down to just about the groin. It didn't need stitches or anything, but the scar's still visible. Would always try to make up better stories about it but could never really think up anything good.
I had a perfectly circular one for most of my life from a car cigarette lighter right on the flesh between my left thumb and forefinger, but it's gone now. My dad's car had a cigarette lighter in the back doors, and I took it out and starting waving it in my sister's face pretending it was on as she was stuck in the middle seat next to me. She started freaking out and I hit her with the "Haha, just kidding!" and stuck it onto my hand. Of course, I'm a dumbass and it was heated.
Super, super glad it ended up on my hand and not my sister's face.
I got a scar on my pinky finger when I cut it to the bone opening a cat food tin as a child.
What happened?
What happened?
I was like 2-3 years old when I was at a daycare place. I was putting on my shoes infront of a large metal door and one other kid ran straight on to me and I fell downwards on to my hand which landed at the hinge of the door. Snapped a good 5mm from the tip of my finger and snapped the bone quite badly. All I remember from that is taking my mitten off of my hand and the tip flying thru the air and a lots of blood :DI got a scar on my pinky finger when I cut it to the bone opening a cat food tin as a child.
What happened?
I've got a scar on my knee that looks like some werebeast scraped it with its claw. Got it biking down a cobblestone alleyway as a teenager, slipping off and knocking myself unconcious. Woke up in the pub at the end of the alley with all these old men asking me if I was alright. Just a minor concussion and a big scraped knee. Healed to be an alright looking scar.
Also got one on an index finger. Tried slicing open a mango, knife slipped and caught my finger, taking out a sizeable chunk.
Also got one on an index finger. Tried slicing open a mango, knife slipped and caught my finger, taking out a sizeable chunk.
Got a lightning shaped scar along my left index finger after a glass jug broke in my hands when I was washing it.
There was a lot of blood and I saw some bone peeking through after the accident. Surgery resolved everything and I have full use of the finger. Hurray for the NHS
There was a lot of blood and I saw some bone peeking through after the accident. Surgery resolved everything and I have full use of the finger. Hurray for the NHS