In regards to Kristi's post

[mbarrick]

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Wound and scar inventory from the bottom up:

• Toe beside my little toe on my right foot doesn't bend well from being thoroughly smashed
• Perpetually achey left foot from cracking my heel
• Perpetually achey right foot from cracking my heel
• 5 cm scar on my right thigh
• circumcision
• 1 cm diameter circular scar on my right hip from an infected scrape
• Very faint scar from ~18 inch cut along my left side
• 6 cm scar near the centre of my chest.
• Three ~3 cm scars on my left shoulder
• 3 cm scar on my right shoulder
• Vaccination scar on my left shoulder
• ~2 cm by 5 cm deep abrasion scar on my right elbow.
• Two faint 0.5 cm circular burn scars on my left forearm
• 4 cm scar on my right forearm
• 1cm by 2cm burn scar on my right forearm.
• Occasional muscle spasms and aching from dislocating my right shoulder and tearing a lot of the connective tissue
• Chronic tendonitis in both elbows
• Deep 3 cm scar on right wrist
• Small circular burn scar on back of left hand.
• Small scars on the knuckles of my right hand.
• Small semi-circular puncture scar on the plam of my right hand near the thumb.
• Tip of a pencil embedded in the palm of my right hand near the base of the forefinger
• Semi-circlular scar on first knuckle of right forefinger
• Small puncture scar and 1 cm scar on second segement of the middle finger of my right hand.
• Crooked middle finger on my right hand from five different breaks.
• Actually now that I am really looking my all of my fingers on both hands have lots of little scars.
• Hard to see scar on my lower lip
• 1 cm scar on my upper lip between my mouth and my nose
• No tonsils
• Pretty much impossible to see scar near the bottom of my right eyeball (I'd pretty much have to remove my eye to show that one)
• A small ding on my brow above my right eye.
• 6 cm scar on my forehead just below the hairline
• Calcified lump on the back of my head from a cracked skull.

I'm sure I missed a few, and of course most of them have stories behind them. Some I am really surprised to see how much they have healed. The puncture wound on my right hand has almost completely faded away, which surprises me. It was a very significant scar for a long time. There are other ones that have disappeared entirely, which weirds me out. The burn on my right forearm was down to the muscle, as was the abrasion, yet both are hard to see now. Upon closer inspection I can't even find the scar on my left side, and that was to the bone. I'm actually more than a little weirded out now. The scar on my forehead was also to the bone and is only ten years old and it is becoming hard to see. I know scars fade over time, but this much, this quickly?

This collection of scars is also why I don't go in for body-mods. I've had enough of my body parts bent, broken and punctured unintentionally to want to go and do it on purpose.

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wow!

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

and i thought i was a mass of scar tissue!

i tend to injure myself in minor ways on a fairly regular basis, and scar quite easily. most fade right away, but the ones i have are generally several years old.

some of the more interesting ones:

-a scar on my inside left ankle from a carpenter bee sting
-a brown scar on the back of my right calf
-a white patch on the inside of my left calf from my last motorcycle accident (it was a bad burn)
-patches on both knees from where i fell on a gravel playground when i was five
-an inch-long slash on my upper left thigh (from a binder of all things)
-a quarter-sized mark on my left shoulder where a birthmark was improperly removed
-a mark on my left wrist where a birthmark was improperly removed by the same quack, as well as the scar of the needle used during the operation
-a scar at the base of my left thumb where i was bitten by horse
-a scar on the back of my left wrist
-a scar between the third and fourth fingers of my right hand from a glass cut
-a mysertious mark on the back of my right hand i've had my entire life with no clue what caused it
-a galaxy of small, white scars on my right foot and lower arms (mostly from mosquito bites)
-several small, white scars from when i had chickenpox as a child on my chest (no comments please)
-a cut through my left eyebrow also from childhood

inside injuries:

-tendonitis in my left hand at the base of my thumb
-chondromalatia of the right patella (tore the cartelidge in my right knee- i'll suffer with that for the rest of my life)
-a lower back injury about 12 years ago
-deviated septum (i've broken my nose 3 times over the years)
-floating rib on the right side

to top it all off, i'm double-jointed and can crack most of the bones in my body, which tends to make people sick but amuses small children. :}

oh, and a writer's callous on my right middle finger.

i've broken numerous toes, but to no lasting injury. again, mainly horse-related. haven't broken a major bone yet *knocks on wood*

Callouses don't count!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Although I also have a writer's callous on my right middle finger - it just add to the overall crookedness of it from the breaks.

*knocking on wood* I have no good reason for why my nose has never been broken. I've been hit in the face with rugby balls, soccer balls, basket balls, and even "soft" balls (get one between the eyes and see how soft they are!) amongst others. I've been punched, kicked, and kneed in the face. I've had my face stomped on. I've been hit in the face with various blunt objects like planks, sticks, bats and wrenches. I've gotten my surfboard in the face before. That scar on my lip is from fainting and falling on my face on a concrete floor. Yet through all of this my nose has never been broken.

I left out really tiny scars, like this needle mark left from a nurse's mistake while giving blood one day. Not to mention that now that I have been thinking about it I have found more, and also found more missing. I feel jilted by scars that were with me for anywhere from 15 to 30 years not being there anymore.

I also left out a few internal injuries that didn't leave any lasting distress or required the permanent removal of anything, like dislocating my wrist, cracked shins, a cracked cheekbone (from one of those incidents that really should have broken my nose).

I have a friend who was in a pretty nasty car accident a few years ago and I used to bug her that other than her broken ribs I had had every one of her injuries, the only difference being that she got them all at once and I spent thirty years accumulating mine. Funny thing now is that since she has recuperated we trade tricks for dealing with things. For example she taught be a great trick for my achey feet that lets me get away with way more walking than I used to be able to comfortably do.

Re: Callouses don't count!

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i counted my writer's callous because it is a large lump on the side of my finger- i can stick pins through it to frighten the particularly susceptible... }:}

i almost forgot when my left earlobe was cut off and sewn back on. all the scar tissue from that healed ages ago. i don't remember much about it, except giggling and crying simultaeneously through the ether as they sewed it back on... (i was about eight)

good lord- were you the combative sort when you were younger? that's quite a lot of violence...

i'm more along the lines of "stupid sport" injuries, including the time i nearly ripped my right arm out of its socket on a cliff dive. *shudders in recollection*

i've had both hands broken at one time or another- one playing hockey, the other volleyball. the three nose breaks were: soccer, basketball, swimming pool (the pool one being undoubtedly the worst).

my dad has a mangled finger that was crushed by a sledge hammer (long story), but my grandfather surpasses us all- he lost two fingers in a printing-press accident about 60-odd years ago. i can safely blame my family for any injuries sustained due to poor coordination... :}

Damn earlobes

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I used to get muscle spasms in my right wrist in the morning (probably a consequence of the dislocation - but they stopped a long time ago) and a couple times they hit while shaving. I nearly lopped off my earlobe twice.

As for all the violence... I was a weird kid in a small town. I never started anything, but I was never one to back down either. The wrench in the face wasn't a fight, though. That was just a very stuck oil pan bleeder nut on a VW and an unfortunate slip. A lot of the little scars on my hands are also auto repair related.

I am, however, relatively injury free compared to other members of my family. My mother and one of my aunts both broke their backs. My dad had what really looked like a second belly button from a war wound and a finger that would not bend at the second knuckle. I've a cousin who was fatally injured in a logging accident. My brother had his orbital bone smashed with plank, which should have been fatal but wasn't. My sisters have both had their share of tears and breaks. My family is a litany of war stories, industrial accidents, and sports injuries. I'm the unathletic, cerebral runt of my family ;-)

Re: Damn earlobes

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

lol! myself and each of siblings have at least one major injury under our belts- my sister was injured at an amusement park (plastic surgery was needed) and my brother fell off a scaffolding at work. my brother also used to bite through his bottom lip fairly regularly as a small child. although compared to your family's injuries that's hardly anything!