like a tattoo with a better story

[anotheranon]

Eschara, "A Scar is a Story".

Perhaps morbid to some, but I rather like scars - usually unwanted but all highly individual, signs that you've been living your life.

Most my scars are the usual childhood bumps and jabs - run into the sofa here, a chickenpox dent there. The one that's still barely visible on my chin has a good story behind it though - I got it when I sailed over my bike handlebars while racing my sister - I skidded on gravel and landed directly on my chin. It scared me more than it hurt, and while the stitches made it heal fairly cleanly I still have a bit of roughness there.

Any good stories?

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[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I have a textured area on my right forearm that used to be on my elbow, and a matching flat place on my right ear from an accident on Alpine Slide. Think bobsled but with a concrete track and a wheeled sled. My brakes went out and I tipped over sideways at high speed on a banked turn, leaving a considerable amount of skin on a rather long swath of concrete. I was 11, I think.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Wow! Talk about dramatic!

How and why do you think the elbow scar migrated, though? I was thinking growth, but that doesn't seem right...

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking a combination of growth and flexing of the skin. It was originally just "below" the elbow, and it's moved towards my hand about 2" over the years.

I also still have 4 stitch marks below my right eye from the obligatory conking of my head on the corner of the coffee table at age 4. They are still big and visible because it took 5 doctors/nurses/extra sets of hands to hold me down while they were stitching me up. I was hurting and scared and I wanted EVERYONE to know about it, so I was fighting the anaesthetic. If they gave me any more I could have stopped breathing, so they just rounded up a bunch of people to hold down the screaming flailing 4-year-old while they stitched my face closed.

I've got a doozy of a scar!

[timcharmorbien.livejournal.com]

Right side of my chest, a jagged surgical scar!
Looks like I've been in a rough knife fight but actually a memento of surviving breast cancer.
Then there's the one across my left cheek from when I was a colicky baby and my father threw me on a bed where an open binder lay and cut me. Take the baby to the doctor for stitches? Hell, no! Just put a bandaid on it and shut her up!
Harsh, but interesting stories.

Re: I've got a doozy of a scar!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Those are some VERY harsh stories. :( You're a tough woman :)