scars

[mrsflibble]

off the back of Loobyloo's post in Ann's falling over thread, do you have any bad scars?

my csection scar is a mess cos it was done in a massive hurry. it knitted together quite well, but I often get pains in it and itching can drive me crazy.
I also have a few where I've had moles removed and such, and one on my nose which is hidden by my glasses. that was from a nasty fall age 11. the only other things i have are that I'm about 30-40% vitiligo, but i have extra bits where my drips and central line were placed during my stay in ICU and HDU after having soph.

you?!

[Annpan]

I have a scar on my right hand on my index finger, I tell everyone I was bitten by a shark. I got it 5 years ago and never thought it would scar, no stitches or anything (I am not telling what really happened, cause that would ruin the fun of it)

I stood on a piece of glass on the street and have an itch on the bottom of my left foot from it (again no stitches, I removed the glass myself with some tweezers, over a bath... it was sore for a long time but eventually healed)

I have various scars in my mouth from several operations.

I have other scars from when the stupid bleeping midwives decided that E needed a hole the size of the channel tunnel to get out of... well.... there is bad scarring there... luckily I don't need to look at it but it makes my doctors wince

[StripyPixieSocks]

I have scars all over my knees from when I was a tomboy...

A scar on my right arm near the elbow after playing 'swords' with a sharp piece of wood and after missing a prime bit of hedge that was in need of a trim gashed all up my arm and gave my neighbour a heart attack when I asked for a plaster while covered in blood!!

Scar on my thumb where I gashed it on a knife which slipped while preparing fish when I was a chef...

Lots of other odds and sods here and there as I am a clumsy so and so

[Thomzo]

I fell off a bicycle when I was about 12 and took the skin off half my face and my right hand. Fortunately, my face healed up but I have tiny scars left on my hand.

Various small scars from burns, particularly when I had a Rayburn (vicious things but you have to love 'em).
The one on my right leg from falling over the garage door (as mentioned in the other thread)
A couple of holes in my feet from standing on nails in the garden.
A couple of chickenpox scars (don't scratch)

Fortunately, all my scars (apart from the leg but that's still healing) are quite small and don't really show.

Zoe

[SarahJane]

I have a scar on my knee where I fell over in a dairy when I was young (the dog pulled me over) and I got a big piece of broken glass stuck in it.
I also have a scar where a metal bed spring poked through the bed and ripped my leg open.
I have some small scars across my stomach and a larger one on my bellybutton where I had a laprascopic operation and a very neat bikini line scar from my hysterectomy aswell as a very faint one from a breast lumpectomy.
Also a few faint scars on my neck from skin tag removals.
Wow! I didnt realise I had so many! I belong in a horror movie!

[lsm1066]

Hmmmmmmm

Ok, I have a dent in my left leg where I fell of a wall and took the skin of down to the bone when I was about 11, a small scar on my right ring finger from being pecked rather viciously by a chicken when I was about 3 (we ate the chicken and I thoroughly enjoyed it too - horrible things, 3 year olds), about a dozen scars on my left knee from repeated surgery, half a dozen lapyroscopy scars, a two inch scar on my head from being accidentally "bottled" at a live roleplaying event, a 12 inch scar from my side round my back from a kidney op and last but not least, a rather intimate scar which required 7 stitches. Not from having a baby but from a skiing accident!

That's me done

Lynne

[citizentwiglet]

I have a scar in my bellybutton from a lapa-thingy-oscopy as well....and a rather neat scar from my operation to remove a chunk of fallopian tube (ectopic pregnancy)...a scar on my forehead from falling up some steps in school when I was 7 (I was more concerned that I'd bled all over my new summer dress than the fact you could see bone!)....some lovely scars on knees and elbows from generally arsing about as a child...

I don't suppose they really count as 'scars' but I also have loads - literally hundreds - of 'spider naevi' or telangiectasia which are sort of big burst blood vessels on my neck, arms, chest and back. Nobody knows why I've got them or why they keep coming, but they are awful looking. And they've got much worse since being pregnant as well. A lot of the time they are caused by alcohol abuse, but that's certainly not the case with me.

[Graye]

I'm amazed to say I have only two tiny scars. One on the forehead from doing my head butting of a concrete flower pot routine and the other on a finger from when my very over-enthusiastic boxer dog forgot I was on the end of his lead and took off, dragging me on the ground behind him.

My son is covered in scars from years of competitive cycling. He can give you a world tour via his scars, ie two on his hips from the same track in Wigan, knee in Japan, shins AND elbows in the US (they were a vicious bunch over there but he learned fast). His favourite (if you can have such a thing) is one in the top of his head (what he was doing riding on the track without a helmet remains to be seen) which was glued together. He loved that one...

Mrs F I think itchy scars mean the nerves are still healing. Some cream to keep the scar supple might help.

[invisiblepiper]

...stuck a knife right through my hand when I was eleven - to the dismay of my art teacher, who promptly fainted! She had just said ' be careful with that.....'

[Rod in Japan]

Going by age:

• Big "Frankenstein-style" hernia scar on right groin. Apparently I kicked too hard when I was just born and bust a gut.
• White disks on both knees. Dragged down the back lane by friend's dog.
• Piece of pencil lead lodged in left index finger, from trying to drive the point of compass through a pencil. The pencil split, and the compass point went right through the finger.
• Hole in the lower back. Fell out of an apple tree, got stabbed by a branch, and ran around with it hanging off my back until friend's dad pulled it out. Womens like to put their fingers in it when they're a'huggin' me.
• Long scar down left thigh. Lypoblastoma removed (and there was I thinking I had a particularly muscular left thigh.)
• Scar on top of head from bicycle head plant.
• Big scratches on my heart left by the betrayals of one Vicki at school.
• Nike "swoosh" on right hand from attempting to karate chop half a beer glass that a friend broke against his own stupid forehead.
• Slight ghost of a split upper lip, received in unwanted combat with the forwards of Bristol Poly rugby club.

I'm hoping that's going to be all.

Feel free to use this information to identify my body if you happen to find it lying around somewhere.

[LBR]

Most of mine are the kind we all know in our hearts and memories.

The others get a little Vitamin E oil and some sunscreen in the summer.

My latest is from having the car parked on a slant and not holding on to the door very well. The door closed on my knee and now I've got a nice little swelling, and a sore black bruise.

Then there was the time I ran into the corner of a cabinet, um, er, last year. Ought to have cleaned up the wound and put a butterfly bandage on it. I was keen to get my chores done and didn't attend to it properly.

Or the time I used a rock for a hammer and the other arm slipped and got scraped on a rock.

Or the time I grabbed a pan that hadn't cooled yet.

I'll leave a few for another post.

I consider them battle scars. Any veteran carries them with pride.

Hope all yours are not a bother. At least, we can forecast the weather, eh?

[Millymollymandy]

I have quite a few and as someone said, what memories they all bring back!

The cleanest neatest scar I have - that you probably wouldn't even see unless I pointed it out as I have to look hard myself, was a mole that was removed by a marvellous surgeon in Geneva. I swear he was a tailor on the side!

The one I love to show people is the one on the inside of my wrist where I had the BCG vaccination (injection) when I was about 4 or 5 years old in Fiji - one blunt needle for the whole school.

[sleepyowl]

Loads of chicken pox scars from when I was little & they went manky & I didn't even scratch them, they are becoming more visible the more my hair is receeding except the one that's between the eybrows. I have a scar on my upper mandiple from where I was mugged & had my cheekbone broken & was left to go blind in my left eye (I didn't thanks to alternative medicine bringing down all the swellings so fast it amazed the medical professionals), it is the reason I generally support a hairy faced look

[citizentwiglet]

MrsF, my scars always itch and tingle when it's going to rain. So, as you can imagine, they itch and tingle A LOT!

[Masco&Bongo]

Scars from falling off my bike when I was 8:
- Dent in my forehead - gravel
- Scar running from my top lip into one nostril (stitched - my first bit of plastic surgery)
- Round mark on one cheek - gravel burn

On my scalp are several little round scars from my recent wasp attack - the stings

Several chicken pox scars - DON'T SCRATCH!!

Hands and arms generally covered in teeny thin scars from working with animals a lot

Not too many actually...