Show off your scars!

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Inspired by ChelEfer's thread "Surgeries/Operations", I am sure you guys have scars from operations or just simply accidents.
Many of you may not enjoy this thread but com'on-- everybody loves to oogle over scars! And guys might like to be competive by having the best (or gross??) scar! :)

Post your image of your favorite scars (or ones that you think that will top this thread!) and add your story regarding how you got that scar.

Make sure you do include the location on your body where the scar is (so we can visualize it!!)

Let's have fun! (and to break up those "i am leaving" and "mods frenze" threads....ugh!)
 
I will launch this thread off with my favorite scars-- ones that I cannot hide yet it is nearly invisible !!

I was five (or six) years old when I was at my playmate's house. We were playing "House" and he was being the mother (yes, it was a "he") and me being his daughter. He told me to sit still while he fetched my make-believe dinner.
For SOME reason, I got this mischevious streak that told me to attack him from behind just to startle him. I ran and pounced off onto him.. and he went over forward. We ended up falling right into cement floor. (OUCH)

He got a bitten tongue and bawled endlessly while his mother asked me what did I do to him. Yeesh! I wasn't the one who hung my tongue out!

I hit my chin and jaw on his head and it did hurt a bit... but I rubbed it away.

Well, that incident was important in determining WHY I ended up having a swollen chin (and it wasn't because I was a chubby child). Two of my lymph nodes were swollen but I was not sick or infected. Apparently my fall onto my playmate's protuding head struck a nerve and encouraged my nodes to be filled with liquid which led to swellness.

Finally at age 8, after several disputes with the insurance company, an operation was approved for the doctors to drain out my nodes (they had NO idea why my nodes decided to stay swollen and they feared for my health)... With this operation I have been stabbed by a syprine two times a week for next two months... it was unsuccessful since every time they drained a dose, my nodes filled another dose. Finally an surgical removal was necessary. They cut my chin up and removed two nodes along with some muscles and tissues then closed the thin skin up.

To today, I have this strange scars that people will inquire about. If you feel it around, you can just feel the skin, the inside of me... no muscles or anythign to "protect" me... just the skin. It also explains the reason for its strange apperance because the skin was so damaged by the repeatious jabs of the needle. (shuddering).

Here they are! The scars are on my right side. You cannot see them if you meet me for the first time or if you know me for years... you only can spot it if you tell me to look at a gorgeous bird in the sky and I tilt my head up... then YOU will see the most obvious injury on my jaw. That is usually the moment that set people off into this line: "oh my god, what happened to your jaw?!?!?"

(http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalme...lymphnodes2.JPG *warning: big picture!* I think the nodes in submandibular area are the ones I lost.)
I did mention somewhere that my scars from this surgery looked like bullet wounds. Seriously. Either that or a bite wound from Dracula.
 

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Well, I am not going to show off my lumpectomy scar (for breast lumps), or the front part of my heart surgery scar (chest area)....but maybe I will post the stomach scar from the bleeding intesting that was repair when I was about 3 or 4, and my back where my heart surgery scar was that goes around to the front. I am not going to put indecent photos of my breast here. LOL
I will see if I can get them done and then show it to you here (the stomach and back photos). :)
 
Ok, here's one of my scars.....I was about 3 or 4 years old when I received it from the hospital. :) My parents noticed that I was having rectal bleeding and in pain so they took me to the hospital to find out what was wrong. The surgeons did an exploratory G.I. surgery...they found the area that was bleeding in one of my intestines and sewed it up...plus they removed my appendix. I also stayed in the hospital for a while too.
So here's the photo....it's a big scar on the right side of my lower stomach (where the large intestine and appendix takes place). I hope you can see it. :)
 

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i have surgery when i was 12 years old i have scars on my back and side of right on my lungs but i wont wanted people to looks over my scars but we have to cover my scars since my surgery.They later i went to swimming pools for my lesson they show of my scars one of girls ask me what happened of my scars i told her none your busniess! :nono:

and i told my mom about i would have plans again have surgery of weight lost and lift breasts but i had battle with weight since i was in high school but we dont have insurance for surgery but i already told my family about it! and my Aunt had overweight also but she would have BIG surgery for her because its hard for her to lose weight!

Sara Boyce
 
nah i dont need show scar!!! cuz of sound not right and their private too..
 
i'll post my scar later... not gonna show my hernia area a big :nono: but other scars i'll show later when i get my camnera back seesh
 
I don't have major scars.. from gal bladder, very hard to tell. and i have many scars when i was young, from cut, burn.. etc, they re small. But i see those other pictures that posted here that bad scars than i have.
 
i have scars but some are fade but can feel bumps or skin look funny when it is winkle. Only scar one is show clear is my stomach. I did not have any camera here that will go to compy.
 
Scar is just a scar, in my opinion. It is just a superfical feature that makes you unique and original from everybody else. If nobody got a scar, then nobody got a story to tell.
"Oh I gotta tell you ONE time when i was in South carolina and I was just a WEE boy climbing that big tree..."
Just a story or description of your scar is acceptable. Apparently people are hesisitant to show their pictures and I understand.

I want to state my interest about scars: Some people scarred differently. Some scars got thicker and red or just faded away (like most people here that said their scars are too dull to spot)... Scars are part of a diversity-- just like people's nationalities and ethnics, their scars are ORIGINAL. Nobody else in the world has a similar shape, texture, or color! I am not ashamed of mine-- I feel it is like an ice-breaker story for people when there are nothing else to talk about! :lol:

And I will appreciate if you will post your story or a picture instead of posting "no I won't show"... (shrug) When I saw that there are people posting to this thread, I had a false hope that I will see some pictures and interesting stories of how their scars were obtained. I didn't see that the majority is not willing to post their pictures. There are only two posts of "no thanks!' while everybody is having a hard tmie to obtain a picture which I thought maybe just a story will be sufficient.
Thank youse who post your stories and/or pictures...! I am sure it takes some courage to do it especially in a public forum... :)

Hope more people will hop on the 'show-off-your-scars' bandwagon!!! :) Let's hope we will see more posts of people who got non-personal scars that they can show and/or tell. :)


Anyway, I think my two cents have been tossed in. Thank you for your opinions.
 
I'd show my 10 inch long scar but it's on my scalp. DAMN THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT SURGERY :madfawk: (Forgive me Lord)
 
OK those pictures I cant take because of no camera will go to compy.

so let me tell you one of my stories.

my middle finger has scar on right hand, it been winkle/torn skin because of growing up. both of hands are same size, hehe anyway, i was about 6 or 7 yrs old. all of us go to skate rink for some an hour then ready go back to after school care during december. we are line up to go in the van but my right hand was hold on door that not close YET.... when I ready go enter and the door close without notice my hand there. I screamed and knock the door. the person who sits open the door and see my hand blooding... two teachers ran to get me towels to wrap my hand... i only see my middle finger skin opening, ofc i can see everything in there. i did not cry or anything, just shock. i sat back of van and hold my finger... all kids want see it so i showed all! lol i get to after school care and told the teacher to get my shoes on because i am holding the my hand and cant get my shoes on! they not know how to deal with me because i am deafness. oh pls, anyway, finally, one of them took me to er to have my finger stiches about 11 i think. my mom saw me in the room and said "what a stubborn she is!" lol yeah, i admited i am stubborn for everything! I had it wrap for a month, even during the christmas day! i have pictures of me and my beauiful white bandage on my middle finger! lol
 
gnarlydorket, i dont have a picture of my scar, and I don't have a digital camera or webcam, but i can tell you abt it.

About 10 years ago I was opening a glass door and it shattered. The glass fell through my foot....through the top of my shoe, through my foot, and became lodged in the bottom of my shoe. When I went to the emergency room in the small town I used to live in, the doctor on call had been eating dinner and was pissed off to be missing a meal. Consequently, he wiped the top of my foot off and sewed it up. No anesthetic, no antibiotic, no tetnus shot, no x-rays, no removal of glass, nada! I asked him if I could have something for pain so he told me to take tylenol. This happened on a friday night, so I couldnt get in to my regular doctor until monday. By monday, my foot was so swollen that my doctor coulnd't have found the glass at all. He did give me a tetnus shot, a prescription for pain killers and antibiotics, put me on crutches, and wrapped my foot appropriately. He told me to go back to the emergency room doctor to remove the stitches in 2 weeks and tell him of my concern that there was still glass in my foot. When I went back and told the emergency room doctor of my concern, he told me I was just being a big baby and that I should throw away the crutches and start walking on the foot. I did exactly what he told me to do and was in excruciating pain for 3 months, when I finally broke down and went back to my regular doctor. He did x-rays on my foot and because the glass was old and contained lead, the glass showed up on the x-ray. There was so much glass in my foot that it was nearly protruding from BOTH sides of my foot. Because I had been walking on it, like the emergency room doctor told me to do, I had severed all the nerves in my foot. Consequently, I ended up having to go in for surgery to remove the glass and reconstruct my nerves. I now have not only the scars from the glass, but from the surgery as well. But, at least I can walk on my foot now.
 
DeafBiker: you got a CI back then when they were big and awkward, eh? Now the scar is only an inch longer and SO minimal ... No need to shave off (a relief for many women)... I was surprised because I remembered my friend in elementary had a huge scar that his hair cannot "overgrow" it so the only way he can cover it up is by having shaggy hairdo.

Mizzdeaf: LOL-- what a wonderful Christmas card picture that will make: "MERRY CHRISTMAS! *flipping off the white bird* OH, DON'T MIND MY BIRDIE... IT WAS FROM AN ACCIDENT. I DiDN't MEAN TO FLIP OFF... :whistle:"

Eve: Oh my goddness. That was the horrible ER story I have read... hope you got some something being done to that heartless doctor like having him fired. It is hard to believe that you spend three months in that condition. :hug: At least it is long past and I am sure you have fully recovered from this injury?
 
Eve said:
...(snip)...Because I had been walking on it, like the emergency room doctor told me to do, I had severed all the nerves in my foot...(snip)...
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I hate to sound like ravensteve, but if that happened to me I would have an armada of lawyers on their asses so fast they wouldn’t know what hit them.
 
Funny you should mention it. Although I am not sue-happy, I did speak with an attorney, who told me that it would cost me $10k up front to hire an out-of-state doctor to testify against the ER doctor if I wanted to sue him for malpractice. Needless to say, I didn't have $10k and was too ignorant of the law to know I should have gone to another lawyer for a second opinion.

For the most part it was a lesson learned and since I am able to walk I just don't think much of it anymore. Over the past 10 years, every once in a while a sliver of glass would work its way out. Plus, I still have a tingling feeling in my foot, and if it is stepped on, or I kick something inadvertently, it does hurt like hell. I guess I am just thankful that I didn't take the ER doctor at his word and went back to my regular doctor, otherwise I could still be in pain.
 
Too bad you didn’t pursue it. You could very likely have intimidated him into making an out-of-court settlement in the 250k range. At least your house would have been paid for.
 
Nas and I couldn't sleep this tonight since I did napped for few hours and Nas slept most of the time... so here I am to post the pictures of my scars.

Warning: my skin is very tanned so it is hard to 'see' the scars on my body hence why most of them are black & white. It is still not enough but better than nothing...

My back:

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Color: (It took a while for me to make it more visible by increasing the brightness and brightest lamp since black & white didn't impact while color does.)
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I got them from knife in bar fight. Long story. Five days later right after operation to sew them up, I played the 3on3 basketball tournament and it stretched the scar & stitches.


Right ankle:

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From IV (intravenous) when I was very young. The doctor was utterly lousy.

Right hand:

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Left hand:

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I got them from the numbers of fights.


Right-handed pinky:

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I had a kendo 'bout' with one of my friends without gloves and my friend hit my pinky with a wooden sword at right time and right area. So end of my pinky finger spilted into two pieces and I can see the bone splintered out of my pinky finger. Not pretty sight but doctors fixed it in no time.


My right arm:

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From bb rifle. My friend got drunk and shot the bb rifle wildly and it hit my right arm. Bastard.


Left arm:

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My arms are more tanned than any body parts and it is harder to see them in the pictures. Anyway, I got them when I mountain climbed at one of mountains. I slipped and I grabbed a big & solid rock to stop from slipping and I didn't see the broken barb wires near my left arm. When I tried to grab another rock to lift myself up and barb wires slashed my left arm. It was deep cut and I couldn't use my left arm rest of that day.


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