Poll: What scars do you have?

[ghostrider409895]

I have a TON of little scars from assorted punctures, slashes and other spastic moments. The good ones include:

A scar in my left eyebrow from playing tackle (American) football and getting nailed in the face by the guy trying to bring me down.

My right index finger has a long scar running down the top of it from where I was bitten by a dog and had to pull my finger out (lost the nail too).

My personal favorite: I have a blue dot in between my knuckles on my right hand where I was stabbed with a pencil in third grade by a kid who apparently didn't want to give up the drinking fountain just yet.

My grandma actually has a pencil scar like what you have. She told me that a classmate of hers seemed to thing it was funny to poke people hard with pencils and one day stabbed my grandmother in her right arm.

I also have a blue scar on the palm of my hand. Unfortunately it is not from a pencil attack like my grandma and your scars. I was young and when I got a large splinter in my hand, I was very difficult and when my mom tried to remove it, it broke off in my hand. To this day I know exactly where it is by the blue dot on the palm of my left hand.
I wonder if I can still remove the splinter or not?

Also, what is it with people stabbing others with pencils anyway? I mean with all of the pencil attacks it is a wonder why schools haven't started treating pencils as weapons. After all, "The Dark Knight" clear showed pencils can be a leathal weapon.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

I can't count that many and keep track. I have more scars on my left hand than most people have in all. I was born with complex syndactyly of my pinky, ring, and middle finger of my left hand. And after 12 surguries, and a miracle of God and modern medicine you have to look close to see that those fingers are kinda bent and really scarred.

 

[ribonuge]

I have a X shaped scare on my left middle finger from when I ripped it open on barbed wire. I was a foolish and adventurous youngin' who didn't notice nuttin'. First and only time I have needed an operation.

 

[Flight]

I have lots, but the one I like looks like an upside-down horseshoe next to what looks like "III". I got it by falling down when I was nine.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

I have a ton, mostly from cat attacks (mine, my mom's, my roommate's...)

One that bears mentioning is the little pit in my skin under my left eyebrow's arch.
When I was in first grade, the school built a new playground and repaved the sidewalk. The first day they opened the area up again, I went running across the sidewalk. And being clumsy even at an early age, I tripped, fell, and went skidding on the left side of my face across the cement. Took off almost all the skin on that side... and I had pebbles stuck into my flesh.

Flash-forward to 12 years later. I had a pimple beneath my eyebrow, and thought I could pop it. It took a long while, and when the zit finally popped, a tiny round thing came out through the opening in my skin when I squeezed it. Turned out to be a pebble that had been underneath my skin for years and I'd never realized.

The scar itself is much less noticeable than most of the others I have (due to position and size... you have to be at 'kissing distance' to see it at all), but I think it's kinda cool.

 

[PrimoThePro]

I have 3, so I put "lots"
2 are from a knife fight, I barely got away from that one.
And 1 from my brother, he got a sword, and thought it would be funny to pretend to slash it at me when I came around the corner, he didn't know I was running.

 

[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.)

 

[Oilerfan92]

- Cut size one on my hand from knife fight with like 50 guys.... Seriously though, i was playing with my dog and he jumped up and scratched my hand

- couple minor scrapes that havent healed

- The front of my right knee is scared up from when i fell of a bike with shorts on a gravel sidewalk and scraped most of the skin of the front.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I have many mental scars, but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

I have a scar on my left wrist from being stabbed, and I have a scar on my right leg from a broken, jagged edge of a chair.

 

[aPod]

My hands and arms are covered in scars, as i imagine most peoples would be. Got plenty up and down my legs and arms... little too much "extreme sports" then i got one going down my face. And one very well hidden but large scar in my pelvic region from when i wiped out surfing and landed hard on the fin.

Scariest scar of my life that one. Came inches away from being a eunich.

 

[darkfire613]

I've got a scar right next to my nose from where I cut my face open when I was four. I've got numerous scars on my legs from where I used to scratch open mosquito bites as a child. I've got small cuts up and down my arms from my 8-year-old brother and my cats. I've got a scar on my arm where a friend of mine pinched me ("If I pinch you it will hurt!" "I bet it won't." "you want me to try?" "sure"), and I've got a scar on my elbow from where I fell off my bike and got a pebble embedded in it.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I have quite a few. Don't feel to comfortable discussing them though. Mainly because a whole lot of them didn't come from accidents, nor were they self-inflicted.

As to my opinion of them. Well it's nice to know that im not going to leave a perfectly flawless corpse when I die. But some of them are constant reminders of rather embarassing situations...

 

[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.