What is your most notable or "favorite" scar. When people ask about it do you tell them the truth or make up a much cooler story?

I have a nice 4" long scar on my right arm. Beast12 will appreciate this one: I was helping my dad do some tree trimming at a job. We were taking down a couple of branches from a Siberian Elm that were hanging dangerously over a garage. I had done a cut higher up so I knew that the tree was on its last leg because the branch pretty much cracked right out of it. My dad thought that when he cut a much larger lower branch that he could cut it slowly and it would "hinge" down so I could grab it and direct it away from the garage. He's been doing this for over 20 years so I ignore my subconcious' obvious urge to get out from under this monster branch. Well...just about the same time logic starts to win over and tells me to move, the 300 + lb branch breaks off and I catch it full force across the arm and chest as it flattens me to the ground. At least it landed on me instead of the garage. People ask if I've ever fallen out of a tree. "Nope, but I have had one fall on me."

Anyone else have a good scar story? If you are telling us the "cool" version, make sure you let us know how it REALLY happened at the end.

 

(1) I got shot in the back of my right arm while bush hogging.

(2) I have a shrapnel wound 4" to the rigt of my belly button.
(3) I have a puncture wound on my right kneecap.
(4) A stab wound on my left thigh.
(5) A scar from getting hit in the head with a shovel next to my left eye.
(6) A laceration scar on my left trigger finger.
(7) My left ring finger is twisted slightly, was dislocated and broke and has a twist to it right where it joins the rest of my hand.
(8) My hair is not a natural part, I have no hair growing at the start of the part from a scar.
(9) Scar on temple of forehead, got tried cracking a table over my head.
(10) Right behind hair line, scar going side to side across my head. Tried stoppping a lawn mower blade and didn't win.
(11) Puncture wound in hand, tried catching a speeding bullet.
(12) Nail in foot, why tie off or use a safety strap when I can nail my foot to the roof instead.

True Explanations:
(1) I was mowing for the county highway dept. and hit a bunch of wire that the phone company left in a ditch, a wire formed basicly a staple, went flying and right into the back of my right arm. The points hit the bone, curled out and up, and had to have it surgically removed.
(2) Replacing a u-joint in a driveshaft. Had a need to heat it to drive it out, part of teh bearing cup broke off and went flying a few inches right into my gut. Heated shrapnel seared whole shut and again it was deep enough to have it surgically removed.
(3) fell of a 6' off a haystack in a barn, landed on a knee right on top of a nail head sticking up about 2" above the floor. Hurt like heck
(4) Dropped aknife while slicing a tube of sausage on a table, sharp one too, and it landed right in my thigh sinking itself about halfway to the femur.
(5) At age 3 I walked up behing my dad who was planting shrubs in front of our house, he didn't know I was there and accindtally wacked me in the head right next to my left eye.
(6) Cleaning a aquirrel, holding tail in my hand, body draped over outside of hand, went to cut partially through tail, cut all the way through instead and managed to cut down to the bone on the first joint. Kind of cool to watch a joint bend when you can actually see it moving. 4 stitches required.
(7) Dislocated finger at the knuckle at my hand, broke between knuckle and first joint. Happened during a football game in high school. hurt like Heck.
(8) About 4 years old, my sister was chasing me, my head also happened to be the same height as the door ***** all around our house. Anyway I was running and my head went right under a doorknob, sliced my head open, let a wide scar after several stitches, hair parts their now.
(9) About 5 again, jumped to grab a baloon and landed my head on the corner of a coffee table. Several stitches required.
(10) I use to be a sheetmetal worker. We were working in a short ceiling basement, we had almost all of our ductwork hung, last piece to go, turned aroudn took one step and WHACK! Stepped right into (and while turning my head) into the end of a piece of duct I had just hung. Headwounds bleed alot, face covered in blood, a trip to the emergency room, stitches again.
(11) Screwing a 2x4 to a wall stud, screw missed stud and went into hand. New meaning to the term I got screwed.
(12) Scenario: Framing nailer, helping a freind with a house edition, had to lay down decking, tripped over air hose, nail gun landed on foot, finger still on trigger, "KA-CHINCK", OUCH!, "can you come over here with your claw hammer right quick," Nuff said!

 

I only have one "stupid" scar, on my left index finger. I was about 12, and had a mishap with a bandsaw.

All of my other scars, and I have plenty, are from abdominal surgeries. They total about 30", I guess.

 

guess we all have a few, steve you have me beet by about a inch, best on is on my right shouder it's 7 inches long with 4 smaller ones near it , from a badly torn and broken shoulder injury, i tell them the truth, was out hunting with a 1898 remington 10 guage side by side. had this big buck in site and pulled back both hammers , then the right trigger ouch!! hurt! pain! passed out, both sides went off breaking my shoulder. the rescue sqaud had to hike in about a 1/2 mile to get me out, 5 hours of surgery. still have the shotgun but its only a keep sake now, the rest are abdominal surgeries and head wounds from being stupid lifting things alone or forgetting i was under a car or truck breaking open my head and needing stiches, the head wounds i say they where looking for brains but did not find any some thing i could have told them, i know i don't have any! hunting now is limited to a nice 12 guage winchester 1100 with a custom cushion

 

I have one whole knuckle that's scar tissue, built a new computer, put it in a cheap case. I pushed plastic drive bay filler out, my finger slipped, and sliced to the bone (bled for days). I have a scar on my thumb, new knife, cutting lemons at work. Various burns from soldering irons and ovens. That's about all I can think of right now.

 

I've got a 2" scar between my eyebrows above the bridge of my nose from a fourwheeling accident. I was flying through a field at about 50mph...As I went over a small nole (sp) I noticed a small speedbump-like hump of dirt. It was too late to stop so I just punched it hoping the suspension would do its job. I couldnt have been more wrong. It pogosticked and bucked me off. I came to as I was halfway rolling through the field. I knelt and ripped my helmet off to notice a river of blood pouring out. I was rushed to the hospital (upstate NY is where I was at and hospitals are scarse).

Come to find out, I had fractured my skull and gotten 120 stitches.

 

8" scar on my right shin. I was 12 and another kid and I we playing in a tree and I jumped down. When I landed, there happened to be wooden stake in the ground now attached to my leg. I got it out and yelled at my dad that I had a cut and he said to go over to him because he had a bandaid for it. When I got over there, my dad almost (you know what ) himself. He wasn't expecting what he saw, 8" long and about 2 inches wide and into the muscle. It looked like a big piece of meat was cut out. Needless to say the ER was the next stop. On the way to the hospital, my brother-inlaw and I were grossing my mom and sister out by talking aboutfinding the piece of meat form my leg and frying it up for lunch. I can't remember how many stitches I had but it was a lot and now I'm a proud owner of a cool scar. I do know one thing, the doctors show no mercy when cleaning out the wound. OUCH.

 

Hmm, I have an 18-20 incher that wraps around the end of my stump from where my leg was ripped off in a motorcycle accident. It's the result of youthful exuberance and the mistaken attitude when we are young, that we will live forever.

It doesn't show when I'm wearing my prosthesis(most of the time). It only shows when I'm at the swimming pool or beach. People are too busy gawking to ask me about it, so I usually don't need to answer any stupid questions.

 

index finger and thumb on right hand - Helping cut up okra for my now dearly departed grandmother. Missed the Okra and cut my finger and thumb.

Have a couple on my other fingers from mishaps with boxcutters knives.

One that seems to have disappeared - was on my earlobe where my brother threw this metal frisbee like thing at me and hit the side of my head. Sliced my ear open.

My ladyfriend has scars all over her, from the waist up it's from multiple operations or the big one on her back is where her spine is supposed to be and it's not there. She has Spinal Bidifa. Several abdominal scars from changes as she grew up and doctors modifed her methods of "personal hygiene". Has a couple on her skull where shunts are put in and she had to have one replaced recently. Then from the waist down she has some - one is where she was making dinner for herself, took the pot off the stove, couldn't find a hotpad so she set the pot in her lap. She realized she made a boo-boo when she smelled burning flesh. Then there's cuts and scrapes she's got all over her legs and feet from either getting into or out of her chair and can't feel it.

 

Right arm
3rd degree burn
4" long and 3" wide.
Go kart racing, 6800 RPM engine clutch at the end of a straightaway and a arm don't mix.

 

Lets see here:

- 4" slash on left thigh (don't run with an exacto knife)
- 3" scar on left temple (the bullet case goes just as fast as the bullet if its not in a gun)
- 3" scar on second knuckle of right index finger (don't you hate it when you accidentaly unlock the blade on a buck knife?)
- 5" scar on left cheek (baby bunny claws are as sharp as razor blades)

That's about it. Not too exciting but all true.

 

I have what will be a new scar on my face as soon as it heals. (Hoping it will be an improvement!) Last Tuesday I was at work, we were torching the heads off some 3/4" dia. rivets in some pre-war steel coulmns that we are separating, and then driving them out with a sledgehammer. My co-worker took a swing, the sledge hit the edge of the driftpin and carved off a nice piece of shrapnel that drove straight into my upper lip. It had a nice curvature to it and didn't want to come out so I had to walk over to my truck where I could use the mirror to see it and pull it out. It left a 1/4" gash almost all the way through my lip, real pretty. My other head and facial scars are also pretty minor, and are mostly covered by the thread about facial scars a few months ago, although I do have a machette scar on my right leg, about 2 inches long, my left kneecap is just a mass of scar tissue from a motorcycle accident, and I have a 3/4 " scar from an X-acto knife incident when I was six. My knuckles are pretty much a mass of small scars from working with my hands for most of my life. -TD

 

Hmmmm... I forgot about the scar on my ankle from my motorcycle's exhaust pipe. That hurt. I eventually got out from under it, with no help from the people who were standing there watching!

 

My "favorite" scar is on my right arm at the elbow...

Many years ago I was helping the babysitter do some laundry. She had one of those old-fashioned wringer washers - the kind that squeeze the water out of your clothes between two rollers.

Anyway I was pushing some clothes into the rollers and-yep you guessed it-I got my hand cought in the rollers. It didn't hurt at first...in fact it was kind of amusing for the first few seconds. Then I realized I was caught and started screaming. Vision of Wile E. Coyote started going through my head and as the rollers went up my arm, they got to my elbow and could go no further. They spun there for a couple minutes until the babysitter ran in and shut the machine down. Had a nice bruise there for several days and it turned into a scar later.

Funny thing is my Dad has the same scar on the same arm from the same thing! The acorn don't fall far from the tree in my house!

 

I have a nice scar that goes from the elbow to the middle knuckle on my right arm, from falling out of a tree when I was eight or so. I also have a good one from my electric grinder across my face, but mostly on the left cheek. A good thing to remember is that when you bind up an electric grinder, it's gonna find a way to shoot out rather than just stall like an air powered one. Both of my arms are scarred up all over from burns, mostly from welding, but a few are from red-hot rust flakes falling off of stuff I was scrapping. I have a really good one on my right arm that's about 2" long and 1" wide, from when I forgot that torches don't cool down immedietely. I threw the torch over a beam, and it swung back on the hose, hitting me in the arm on it's way by. Oh yeah, there are tons of scars on my head too from hitting stuff.
I used to ride a mountain bike about two hours a day, and my legs are covered in scars from that. One that I am really proud of is on my left knee, resulting from a chance encounter with a rock. On most of the cuts and scrapes I have gotten, I should have had stitches, but I never did.