Scars

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:04 pm

What scars do you have

and

how did you get them?

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:19 pm

When I was in my "drinking" yrs. I had numerous opportunities to fall down and I frequently took advantage of them thus providing my shins with cleverly ingrained roadmaps to nowhere.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:24 pm

I have beside my left eye from forceps being used when I was born. A short one on my abdomen where they removed my appendix. And some smalls above my bellybutton from where they removed my gallbladder.

Saffron · Post by **Saffron** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:26 pm

I had a horseback riding incident where one of my horses fell on me while I was riding him. He slipped and fell over while he was at a full canter, we were on a gravel cement driveway. I was wearng cutoff shorts and my mocassins. I still have the scars on my right knee and 2 on my right foot, since I was barefoot. I could never get all of the gravel out. :-1 I wasn't mad at him, he was a good horse.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:33 pm

This is my Daughters leg after an operation last year. When the staples came out too early, the cut widened and the scar is over Ã‚¼" wide. The hospital have agreed to do some surgery to improve this but not for a year or two. Not ideal for a young girl

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Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:34 pm

Saffron wrote: I had a horseback riding incident where one of my horses fell on me while I was riding him. He slipped and fell over while he was at a full canter, we were on a gravel cement driveway. I was wearng cutoff shorts and my mocassins. I still have the scars on my right knee and 2 on my right foot, since I was barefoot. I could never get all of the gravel out. :-1 I wasn't mad at him, he was a good horse.

Good horses dont buck you then stomp on you until you look like a gravel driveway.

Glue !

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:39 pm

Saffron wrote: I had a horseback riding incident where one of my horses fell on me while I was riding him. He slipped and fell over while he was at a full canter, we were on a gravel cement driveway. I was wearng cutoff shorts and my mocassins. I still have the scars on my right knee and 2 on my right foot, since I was barefoot. I could never get all of the gravel out. :-1 I wasn't mad at him, he was a good horse.

My son has a scar under his bottom lip which he tells everyone was the result of a horse-riding accident. What he is remiss in revealing is that he was below school age and he was on a Barbie horse and the plastic ear went in deep

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:39 pm

Oh boy UK, Im sorry she had to go through that. I hate to see children get hurt. She'll be ok then ?

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:46 pm

She's fine thanks Nomad. We have different views about the scar. She sees it as something boys will find unattractive. I see it as a good result because we thought the bone tumour was malignant

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:49 pm

I always seem to be one year early with a particular surgical procedure that now is done laproscopicaly (keyhole), but when I had it required a pretty big incision, like-----left and right knee cartilage repair resulting in four inch scars on both knees. Cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal) resulting in a 8 inch scar below right rib cage. Prostatectomy (prostate removal), resulting in vertical scar of 5 inches from just below the navel to the pubic bone. A Thyroidectomy (removal of thyroid gland), resulting in a barely visible four inch scar 1 1/2 inches below the Adams Apple.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:52 pm

Don't sweat it - no offence taken mate

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:52 pm

Not many scars. Apart from the one I recently acquired on me bum, I have an inverted L shaped scar on my forehead where I walked into the end of an open and unprotected piece of 4" square metal trunking, and a few broken knuckles. Not forgetting a broken toe from walking barefoot into my toolbox twice.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:58 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: Oh my god, I had no idea it was that serious. I'm sorry for making light of it.

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:rolleyes:

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:25 pm

Scar on my upper lip.. car accident when I was 16. Scar where right ear was severed in horse accident, 7 years ago. Scar on left arm 9 inches long melanoma.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:38 pm

Lets see so many scars, so little time..!!

1. Cardiac Cath scar

2. Hysterectomy scar

3. Biopsy scars 2 (small not saying where)

4. Carpal Tunnel scar left wrist

5. Carpal Tunnel scar right wrist

6. Scar about 4 inches long on the front of my neck where they fixes my blown out disc, and broke neck, and put in cadavar bone.

7. Tracheodomy scar neck (had one because I started bleeding out on the table)

8. Scar on right ankle (broke the sucker triped on a pair of shoes)

9. Lap scars(3) from scar tissue removal caused by number 2.

10. Left Shoulder repair scars (3).

11. Various other scars from being a sports jocket playing soccer, and soft ball as an adult for years..

Believe it or not most aren't even noticable unless I tell you where they are ..:-3

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:59 pm

Adelaide The Rug-Maker

While many ladies do excel

In cooking and in baking,

This lady's claim to fame

Was based on her rug-making.

She really made some lovely rugs,

A skill learned as a child,

Her one-of-a kind, homemade designs

Were volatile and wild.

Her source for patterns no one knew,

But all agreed, as she grew older,

Her schemes grew more unusual,

And her colors grew much bolder.

Intricate pictures sometimes were seen,

In Ms Adelaide's fine rugs,

Open to interpretation,

Each viewer allowed to judge.

Private lady that she was,

She kept her rugs all to herself,

Never once asked for suggestions,

Nor sought another's help.

And through the years, she made a lot,

They were oddly sized and shaped,

Her colors often ran amuck,

And folks were constantly amazed.

Then one day she passed away,

And went to the Pearly Gates,

Probably on a flying rug,

One of her exclusive makes,

When relatives and family came,

Oh my, did they get fooled,

The only thing she left to them

Were her old, rug-making tools.

In vain, they sought her patterns,

They looked for clues to her designs,

They'd be worth a pretty penny,

But they were so hard to find.

Without much luck, they near gave up,

'Til a bright and eager nephew,

Stumbled, at his own surprise,

Upon a most peculiar clue.

Her medical records came to light,

Listing all her operations,

And with each one, a rug was done,

Now, what a revelation!

A tonsillectomy at twenty-three,

Produced two mats that matched,

Small and pink and oval-shaped,

Tonsils? Yes! The family was aghast!

The next rug that they examined

Was shaped quite like a finger,

This caused them to pause in awe,

And they pondered as they lingered.

They checked the medical records,

And they learned, at thirty-three,

Ms Adelaide had undergone,

An appendectomy.

By the detail in this rug,

They found themselves transfixed,

And soon they easily could see

A magnificent appendix.

How wise they were; how smart they felt,

In sorting out these clues,

Adelaide knew her physiology,

And she knew what to do.

Her medical records next disclosed

A gall bladder operation,

How would she handle that,

And maintain her reputation?

They found a multi-colored rug,

That looked like sand and stone,

They easily related it

To a gall bladder - full blown.

A couple of pneumonia bouts

Explained rugs that looked like lungs,

Whitish, pinkish, balloon-like,

Lungs, healthy, whole, and young.

Between bafflement and amusement,

Her relatives were torn,

But Adelaide kept them smiling,

Not feeling too forlorn.

Her last rug - a puzzlement,

With designs they wished were neater,

All that they could figure out

Was a woofer and two tweeters.

The family studied it with care,

What happened to her at fifty-three?

"I know!" claimed one excited niece,

"She had a hysterectomy!"

To close Ms Adelaide's estate,

Her rugs were given to each kin,

Who proudly then displayed the rug,

While broadly smiling from within.

Virginia (Ginny) Ellis

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:01 pm

I believe you, Carla.:-6

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:48 pm

CARLA wrote: Lets see so many scars, so little time..!!

1. Cardiac Cath scar

2. Hysterectomy scar

3. Biopsy scars 2 (small not saying where)

4. Carpal Tunnel scar left wrist

5. Carpal Tunnel scar right wrist

6. Scar about 4 inches long on the front of my neck where they fixes my blown out disc, and broke neck, and put in cadavar bone.

7. Tracheodomy scar neck (had one because I started bleeding out on the table)

8. Scar on right ankle (broke the sucker triped on a pair of shoes)

9. Lap scars(3) from scar tissue removal caused by number 2.

10. Left Shoulder repair scars (3).

11. Various other scars from being a sports jocket playing soccer, and soft ball as an adult for years..

Believe it or not most aren't even noticable unless I tell you where they are ..:-3

We are not worthy! :yh_worshp

I have a small one on left upper arm, just above the elbow, I was

stretchin' fence whilst my dad was poundin' staples, one of the

crowbars slipped and the barb wire came zinging around and sliced

open a little bit of my arm!! I keloid some so it's bigger than it would have

been... but it's still not bad.

The rest I'm too lazy to enumerate!

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:44 pm

gosh...i feel so lucky...i don't have many.

i have a couple on my knee from some basketball injuries i had to have taken care of.

one that gets particular interest is a wide scar on the inside of my wrist. people actually ask if i tried to kill myself (nobody that knows me well)!!! :-5 LOL it was from barbed wire...in a creek bed...i was swimming when i was a little girl...

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:13 am

1. Left knee. Fell on the corner of a brick garden area at Cedar Point when I was 5.

2. C-section scar.

3. Left index finger from where I nearly shaved the side of my finger off on a slicer in the kitchen I worked at. (Bullet has an identical scar, on the same finger...can you say 'creepy'??)

4. Small scar on my right index finger knuckle from punching a guy in the mouth and his tooth getting embedded in my finger.

5. Long scar beginning on the back of my hand, curving around my wrist from a dog bite. I never again made the mistake of pulling away when a dog got a hold of me.

6. Scar on my left forearm from reaching too far into a pizza oven.

I think that's all. I like 'em all. They add character.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:29 am

Had one on my forehead since it was stitched when I was 3 and one from a deep cut over my left eye at 10 which these days looks like a wrinkle.

The most unsightly one came from falling off my bike and crushing the end of my finger between the road and handlebar. I dislocated the joint and its been twisted round ever since. Fortunately, now I'm getting on a bit, I'm not so self concious about it as it just looks like I've got arthritis in the joint

It's not so bad that I have to be kept away from small children though

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:32 am

KarazePapa wrote: I have a scar on my left buttock. I got it because I thought I was snagged on the bushes behind me while fishing but it was my own butt. I got a little hot under the collar and yanked, put a 3 prong hook into my butt. Had to have it removed and stitched up.

I have been jabbed, stabbed, punched and this, as the first year I was a MP.

Right leg, long scar, got bucked off and hit the barbed wire. That smarted. Lower middle back, barely see it but I was kicked by a mule helping my late father in law while he was shoeing the damn thing. I would have to get naked to look for all my scars and I don't think I could really remember how I got them all. :-2
Met a guy once who had been fishing and as he'd cast his line, the hook had snagged into his eyeball and the whipping action had literally pulled his eye out of the socket and left it dangling on his cheek. He lost the eye and I have to say it looked rather unpleasant

Crowster · Post by **Crowster** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:39 am

i have a scar on my shoulder somone stabbed me with a tip ex pen in collage for a laugh really wasnt that funny

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:51 am

Rapunzel wrote: Adelaide The Rug-Maker

While many ladies do excel

In cooking and in baking,

This lady's claim to fame

Was based on her rug-making.

She really made some lovely rugs,

A skill learned as a child,

Her one-of-a kind, homemade designs

Were volatile and wild.

Her source for patterns no one knew,

But all agreed, as she grew older,

Her schemes grew more unusual,

And her colors grew much bolder.

Intricate pictures sometimes were seen,

In Ms Adelaide's fine rugs,

Open to interpretation,

Each viewer allowed to judge.

Private lady that she was,

She kept her rugs all to herself,

Never once asked for suggestions,

Nor sought another's help.

And through the years, she made a lot,

They were oddly sized and shaped,

Her colors often ran amuck,

And folks were constantly amazed.

Then one day she passed away,

And went to the Pearly Gates,

Probably on a flying rug,

One of her exclusive makes,

When relatives and family came,

Oh my, did they get fooled,

The only thing she left to them

Were her old, rug-making tools.

In vain, they sought her patterns,

They looked for clues to her designs,

They'd be worth a pretty penny,

But they were so hard to find.

Without much luck, they near gave up,

'Til a bright and eager nephew,

Stumbled, at his own surprise,

Upon a most peculiar clue.

Her medical records came to light,

Listing all her operations,

And with each one, a rug was done,

Now, what a revelation!

A tonsillectomy at twenty-three,

Produced two mats that matched,

Small and pink and oval-shaped,

Tonsils? Yes! The family was aghast!

The next rug that they examined

Was shaped quite like a finger,

This caused them to pause in awe,

And they pondered as they lingered.

They checked the medical records,

And they learned, at thirty-three,

Ms Adelaide had undergone,

An appendectomy.

By the detail in this rug,

They found themselves transfixed,

And soon they easily could see

A magnificent appendix.

How wise they were; how smart they felt,

In sorting out these clues,

Adelaide knew her physiology,

And she knew what to do.

Her medical records next disclosed

A gall bladder operation,

How would she handle that,

And maintain her reputation?

They found a multi-colored rug,

That looked like sand and stone,

They easily related it

To a gall bladder - full blown.

A couple of pneumonia bouts

Explained rugs that looked like lungs,

Whitish, pinkish, balloon-like,

Lungs, healthy, whole, and young.

Between bafflement and amusement,

Her relatives were torn,

But Adelaide kept them smiling,

Not feeling too forlorn.

Her last rug - a puzzlement,

With designs they wished were neater,

All that they could figure out

Was a woofer and two tweeters.

The family studied it with care,

What happened to her at fifty-three?

"I know!" claimed one excited niece,

"She had a hysterectomy!"

To close Ms Adelaide's estate,

Her rugs were given to each kin,

Who proudly then displayed the rug,

While broadly smiling from within.

Virginia (Ginny) Ellis

What a delightful poem. Thanks so for sharing.

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Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:44 am

SOJOURNER wrote: What a delightful poem. Thanks so for sharing.

:) You're Welcome.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:14 am

Appendictumy scar

Thyroid removal scar

Mentally scarred...but that's another story

Lil~Basco · Post by **Lil~Basco** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:34 am

Scars from appendectomy, one cesarean, a two inch scar below right knee from a toboggan accident, a five inch light scar from neck to shoulder from a wild animal, a scar on right ankle from tackle football, and two deep scars on my right thigh from a friends siamese cat running over my lap to attack another person.

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:22 pm

4 x 1/4 inch scar on my thigh from a run in with my trike as a kid

dime sized scar on my knee, a run in with a large pointed rock when I was a kid

scar like a bullet wound between my eyes where my bro show me with an arrow, when I was a kid

scar on little finger where barbed wire snagged me.

lumpy scar on elbow from a skateboard mishap (then to make it uglier I sunburned it) as a kid

many a nick on my shins from ice skating days.

2 wee ones in my belly button from my tubal.

scars in my ears from horrific ear infections as a kid.

and a nip out of one ear from a dog bite .. when I was a kid.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:04 pm

minks wrote: 4 x 1/4 inch scar on my thigh from a run in with my trike as a kid

dime sized scar on my knee, a run in with a large pointed rock when I was a kid

scar like a bullet wound between my eyes where my bro show me with an arrow, when I was a kid

scar on little finger where barbed wire snagged me.

lumpy scar on elbow from a skateboard mishap (then to make it uglier I sunburned it) as a kid

many a nick on my shins from ice skating days.

2 wee ones in my belly button from my tubal.

scars in my ears from horrific ear infections as a kid.

and a nip out of one ear from a dog bite .. when I was a kid.

Just a feeling that I can't scratch, but you wouldn't have been a tomboy by any chance?

Dizz · Post by **Dizz** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:11 pm

Here's mine!

Seriously, I have one on my face. 1 in. on the cheekbone. I got hit by a golf club when I was 11.

Sheesh... that taught me not to play with her clubs....