Scars

[jackie j]

Thanks all I am now about to throw up lol. Scar on both hands from carpel tunnel ops. scar on left thumb from slicing a potato in half in my hand when a teenager.

[jacob marley]

scar on right thumb when slipping sharpening swede hook left index finger reduced in size sideways when trimming Cauliflowers and some body chucked one on to the pile and knocked elbow and knife took the side of finger from second knuckle to the end .
Very handy for picking nose though....jacob

[Two_Sheds]

I think we need proof in the form of pics Hazel.

Really?
I don't think you really want to see pictures, it is lunchtime.

(I lost half my tongue to cancer. So that I could eat & speak again, the plastic surgeon reconstructed my tongue from a portion of my left forearm. The tongue now looks funny: half white, half pink, but works fine (except I can't speak for long, the graft gets tired, having no muscle of its own) Remarkable, really)

[HeyWayne]

I have a scar on my knee from when I were a lad. Trying to impress a girl somehow and slipped. Gouged my knee on the little metal bracket holding two paving slabs together as a mini retaining wall.

Matching kinda square "U" shaped scars - one on my upper left arm, one on my right shoulder. I was putting the loft ladder back up as a kid and didn't quite get it to click. The next thing I heard it sliding back down it's runners and didn't quite get out of the way in time. The metal feet hit me.

A crescent shaped scar on my right index finger, I slipped with a barmans friend - the little bottle opener thing with the foil cutter dug into my finger about halfway down to the bone. Don't ask what I was doing with it at the time - it wasn't cutting foil.

A scar between my shoulder blades. I used to black out quite a bit as a teenager and on one occasion I'd got up from my bed and made it as far as the door, when I remember falling backwards. My dad found me laying on my bed, on my front with blood all over my back. I'd fallen against the sharp edge of my desk (you know those laminated chipboard things everyone had).

A weird little lump kinda scar on my right hand from broken glass when I worked in a bar.

A 1-2 inch scar on my lower back from my op - I remember thinking how disappointing it looked when I first saw it.

My hernia scar. Not telling any more about that.

As mentioned, I've several on top of my head from various low-hanging objects. Light fittings mainly.

I think that's it.

[Two_Sheds]

Wayne, you definitely win 'funniest scar' for continually trying to scalp yourself

[HeyWayne]

Wayne, you definitely win 'funniest scar' for continually trying to scalp yourself

I hear the monk look's coming back.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Wow! I think two_sheds trumps everyone with a bionic tongue - wicked!

Really?
I don't think you really want to see pictures, it is lunchtime.

(I lost half my tongue to cancer. So that I could eat & speak again, the plastic surgeon reconstructed my tongue from a portion of my left forearm. The tongue now looks funny: half white, half pink, but works fine (except I can't speak for long, the graft gets tired, having no muscle of its own) Remarkable, really)

I didn't want to see, particularly, it's just that I was mightily impressed - and I still am. 3 cheers to the clever surgeon!

[HeyWayne]

Remarkable, really)[/SIZE]

Yes it is!

[Two_Sheds]

3 cheers to the clever surgeon!

He mucked up my back though (cut a nerve to my left arm/shoulder). I'm going back next week to see if I can get another scar, I mean if he can do something clever to fix my shoulder back where it should be.

[OllieMartin]

In line with the thread on organ donation, somebody mentioned about scars. So, who's got what interesting scars? Me, I've got a mis-shapen pupil because I put a tyre lever through my glasses when changing a tyre. Seven pieces of glass in my eye, and thanks to a brilliant surgeon, still got the eye, though with about 70% (blurred) vision.

That was me. Nice to know I'm not the only one who likes them!

A lot of my scars are caused by my brother, it's a wonder I still love him as much as I do.
In summary:
Head - Threw a metal ball at me
Nose - Threw a metal pipe that ricocheted and hit me
Knee-groin - Knocked me off my bike
Wrist-elbow - Slipped on conservatory floor whilst being chased by him

The others that weren't caused by him:
Head - Had wooden box thrown on me
Head - Fell off a ladder
several on knees and hands.

But the best scar I've encountered was a young girl called Harriet who I noticed had a 5 inch scar on her spine between her shoulder blades and upon asking her (politely) about it, discovered she had another 6 inch one at the bse of her spine. Turned out she'd slipped in the bath and fractured her spine in 4 places. Appart from the scars she was perfectly fine (and in my opinion, all the hotter for them! )

[di]

That was me. Nice to know I'm not the only one who likes them!

A lot of my scars are caused by my brother, it's a wonder I still love him as much as I do.
In summary:
Head - Threw a metal ball at me
Nose - Threw a metal pipe that ricocheted and hit me
Knee-groin - Knocked me off my bike
Wrist-elbow - Slipped on conservatory floor whilst being chased by him

The others that weren't caused by him:
Head - Had wooden box thrown on me
Head - Fell off a ladder
several on knees and hands.

But the best scar I've encountered was a young girl called Harriet who I noticed had a 5 inch scar on her spine between her shoulder blades and upon asking her (politely) about it, discovered she had another 6 inch one at the bse of her spine. Turned out she'd slipped in the bath and fractured her spine in 4 places. Appart from the scars she was perfectly fine (and in my opinion, all the hotter for them! )

It amazes me kid brothers/sisters rarely manage to kill each other!!!

Without wanting to embarass Two Sheds...and I'm sure you don't need any reassurance from me anyway...but to set the record straight for others...You'd honestly never know!!!Sorry he buggared up your back,but he did a mighty fine job otherwise!Hope they can successfully fix your back!x

[janeyo]

Slightly off topic but I once worked with a chap who'd had an industrial accident and lost all the fingers on one hand so he had pioneering surgery (for its time) and had his toes on his hand. They worked fine. I could never take my eyes off them esp when he used to answer the phone and scratch his head etc.. and he even had hairs on them!

[Two_Sheds]

I had hairs on my tongue graft when they first put it in but they soon dissolved

and: thanks Di !
Mr Sheds never complained about my bionic tongue, except that perhaps they made it a bit sharp

[OllieMartin]

It amazes me kid brothers/sisters rarely manage to kill each other!!!

And I didn't include the incidents that didn't leave scars, such as:
Breaking my collar bone whilst 'kung-fu' fighting.
Stabbing me in the arm with his brand new flick knife (he was a bit of a renegade in his youth!)
Strangling me while play fighting until I passed out.
Ripping my shirt off me and throwing me into a barrel-sized plant pot in Switzerland 'play' fighting)

It's no wonder I'm can take anything these days!

[Two_Sheds]

My brother has an eyebrow scar from where we were washing up. I would wash, he would dry. I would wash faster and faster and pass him the plates faster & faster ... one day he walked straight into the side of a plate

he did his chin himself though: cycled into a stationary lorry