The scar and injury thread.

[cowboy]

So I tore the heel of my hand open yesterday in a friendly backyard game of softball (yeah, yeah, I know it was Sunday.) Anyway, I've had a lot of cuts, but this one was surprisingly painful. My MIL, a RN, cleaned it up and looked at it, and said If I went to the ER they'd probably stitch it, but I could get by without one. I have a $5,000 deductible, so that decision was easy. Scars are cool anyway.

So I was wondering, what scar or injury are you most proud of? Mine are mostly cow/horse related. The injury I mention most comes from a time that I was publicly humiliated by a saddle bronc horse that was aptly named Air Mail. He tried to brush me off as we came out of the chute, and I didn't have a chance. Several compressed discs later, I heard the rodeo announcer say "...and now you folks can see how this horse got his name."

[Pheidippides]

So I tore the heal of my hand open yesterday in a friendly backyard game of softball (yeah, yeah, I know it was Sunday.) Anyway, I've had a lot of cuts, but this one was surprisingly painful. My MIL, a RN, cleaned it up and looked at it, and said If I went to the ER they'd probably stitch it, but I could get by without one. I have a $5,000 deductible, so that decision was easy. Scars are cool anyway.

So I was wondering, what scar or injury are you most proud of? Mine are mostly cow/horse related. The injury I mention most comes from a time that I was publicly humiliated by a saddle bronc horse that was aptly named Air Mail. He tried to brush me off as we came out of the chute, and I didn't have a chance. Several compressed discs later, I heard the rodeo announcer say "...and now you folks can see how this horse got his name."

Huge chunk out of the fingerprint pad on the middle finger of my left hand. All the way to the bone. Three stitches. Courtesy of working at a machine shop at age 13 (we told the ER I slammed it in a gate).

Now-faint half inch scar on the index finger of my left hand. Sawing wood for the family at 12 and almost added my finger to the mix. Hand bow saw.

Couple of inch long thin scars on left hand from whittling.

Scar on my left knee from the time my brother threw a big plastic mixing spoon at me and it actually stuck there.

Couple more scars from putting up barbwire fences. Also on left hand, inch and a half long cumulative.

Faux-suicide scar on left wrist from a box cutter that slipped.

Multiple puncture wounds on right hand from the time I threw the mean cat we had to the dogs to watch a fight, and then realized the cat was going to literally die. All puncture wounds inflicted by the cat as I rescued it.

I leave out the surgical ones. They aren't fun or tough.

[Surfah]

I had a slipped capital femoral epiphysis in both hips. 2 6" screws in each hip with matching 6" scars on the outside of each hip. My scars keloid so they look bad. You can also see all of the little scars from the staples still too.

I have a couple good ones on my knees and my knuckles are scarred from busting my knuckles wrenching on things.

[Indy Coug]

Benign tumor removal at age 8 and ACL reconstructive surgery during college; both to my left knee. Three scars that are at least 4 inches in length.

[Sea Chicken]

Bike wreck while wearing flip-flops in Hawaii. Ripped open my foot between the third and fourth toe. 20 stitches -- 10 on the inside, 10 on the outside.

Oh, and hi everybody. My first post here.

[BigPiney]

Bike wreck while wearing flip-flops in Hawaii. Ripped open my foot between the third and fourth toe. 20 stitches -- 10 on the inside, 10 on the outside.

Oh, and hi everybody. My first post here.

Welcome. So what are your big runs planned for this season?

[Gidget]

Bike wreck while wearing flip-flops in Hawaii. Ripped open my foot between the third and fourth toe. 20 stitches -- 10 on the inside, 10 on the outside.

Oh, and hi everybody. My first post here.

Go to Ellis Island and tell us about yourself.


I have a few scars from foot surgery, boring. But I do have a nice one on my elbow where I tripped backing up trying to get my daughter (in her carseat) out of the back of my old two door car. I saved her life but my elbow ate it hard on the pavement.

[Sea Chicken]

Welcome. So what are your big runs planned for this season?

The Race to Robie Creek is Saturday (8 miles up the mountain, 5 back down the other side), Seattle Rock n Roll Marathon in June and I'm toying with the idea of running Top of Utah before driving down to Provo for the FSU game in Sept.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I've posted of the incident ad nausea, but a cycling accident five days or so before the 2004 CB Golf Tourney, which would have included me playing in a foursome with Lavell Edwards and Robbie Bosco, resulted in two titanium plates and ten screws in my radius and ulna. I have an approx. 7" scar that runs up my forearm and around my elbow.

Still, compared to some of you, I feel like Roy Scheider's character in Jaws when Quint and Richard Dreyfuss' character were comparing wounds, scars and shark bites, and Scheider off in the corner looks down at his appendectomy scar with a look of remorse because he has nothing better.

[Sea Chicken]

I've posted of the incident ad nausea, but a cycling accident five days or so before the 2004 CB Golf Tourney, which would have included me playing in a foursome with Lavell Edwards and Robbie Bosco, resulted in two titanium plates and ten screws in my radius and ulna. I have an approx. 7" scar that runs up my forearm and around my elbow.

Still, compared to some of you, I feel like Roy Scheider's character in Jaws when Quint and Richard Dreyfuss' character were comparing wounds, scars and shark bites, and Scheider off in the corner looks down at his appendectomy scar with a look of remorse because he has nothing better.

I don't even know what an ulna is, but I do know that I wouldn't want ten screws in mine.

[Mrs. Funk]

I have a one-inch scar on the left side of my ribcage from a chest tube (bad car accident I almost died from). They didn't put any stitches in when they took the tube out, though, so I basically had a one-inch access hole flapping in the wind and oozing out weird stuff until it finally closed over.

My hands have random scars from the summer I went rock climbing four times a week. I chunked my shin really hard once and now it has a divit in it.

And even though I'm a young pup, I was not endowed with any grace. Thus, I have a variety of other scars, too. Like the one from tripping over the garden hose when I was nine and split open my lip horizontally. Yeah, fun stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think I already mentioned my gunshot wound. I also have a scar on my leg from when I tried to jump over a barbed-wire fence as a kid. I didn't quite make it and ended up hanging upside down with a barb embedded in my thigh. Someone had to come and lift me off. At the time I thought it was the worst tragedy in world history.

[FMCoug]

I'm relatively unscathed. I have a scar on my thumb from when I tried to chop it off when I was a prep cook. And one on my forehead from having my head slammed into the pavement. Other than that I am pristine!

[Katy Lied]

3" on upper left thigh from the summer when I was 13 and Ronald Ramell (who is in jail now, I believe) took off on the same wave right behind me and wiped out while not wearing a leash. His board arched high in the air and came down nose first, grazing my leg. It didn't bleed that much but everyone else made me get out of the water because there were shark warnings out that day. Freakin' townies.

[Solon]

All of my scars are on the inside. But they're just as ghastly.