Scars with historyYou've all got scars: they're nature's little reminders not to be so damned stupid next time. My favourite is the 1/4" round hole in the back of my right hand, created when I was 7 by my best friend putting a manure-covered gardening fork "away".
Tell us the stories behind your scars. With photos if possible.
(
chthonic, Fri 4 Feb 2005, 10:00)
« Go Back
72 Stitches in 3 SittingsI have a bloody big scar on my elbow, inflicted by doctors after I smashed it by falling off my bike when I was 18. I was... driving without due care and attention :)
I knocked myself out when I did it, and woke to some senior citizen leaning over me saying "Y'alreet there, son?". My reply went along the lines of "Yeah, I think so-OW! F***IN' 'ELL!" He wasn't impressed, but my elbow was in a few more bits than it should have been, so bollocks to him.
The doctors had to put a respectable Meccano set in there to hold it together (38 stiches) and then take it out again 10 months later (32 stitches), with a minor repair inbetween after I fell on it and popped two of the screws out through the skin of my elbow (2 stitches). And the physio? The girl was half my size, but I've never feared anyone's thumbs so much, before or since :)
Apologies for length, but the scar's a big 'un. I still have the Meccano in a jar, somewhwere.
(, Fri 4 Feb 2005, 14:14, Reply)
« Go Back