Wounds And Scars
Rawr, yet another pointless thread. This time we get to discuss any wounds or scars that you may be carrying around with ya.
About 4 years ago I had visited my cousins down the coast, and we had decided to go down to the beach and just bum out all day. Now in Australia it goes without saying that you put Sunscreen on when you go out in the sun for more than 10 minutes without a shirt on. So I'm normally pretty good with this practice, so I enjoyed about 5 hours in the sun that day.
However the problem started when I got back to my Aunt's house. I couldn't get my Thongs off (Like a Sandal), normally you come in the door give your feet a flick and off they come. So I look down and my feet have swollen up to about twice their size. I forgot to put sunscreen on the top of my feet.
"Holy ****" was my first reaction.
The next day we drove home with my in excrutiating pain and went straight to our family doctor. I had recieved 2nd degree burns to my feet. For the next 3 weeks I could not stand on my feet without being in some form of pain. Now 4 years on I still suffer from it, whenever it gets cold my feet go numb and they feel like the are burning in a cold fire. I can get the rest of my body as hot as I like, but my feet remain cold with that sensation of burning.... quite an enjoyable experience.
About 4 years ago I had visited my cousins down the coast, and we had decided to go down to the beach and just bum out all day. Now in Australia it goes without saying that you put Sunscreen on when you go out in the sun for more than 10 minutes without a shirt on. So I'm normally pretty good with this practice, so I enjoyed about 5 hours in the sun that day.
However the problem started when I got back to my Aunt's house. I couldn't get my Thongs off (Like a Sandal), normally you come in the door give your feet a flick and off they come. So I look down and my feet have swollen up to about twice their size. I forgot to put sunscreen on the top of my feet.
"Holy ****" was my first reaction.
The next day we drove home with my in excrutiating pain and went straight to our family doctor. I had recieved 2nd degree burns to my feet. For the next 3 weeks I could not stand on my feet without being in some form of pain. Now 4 years on I still suffer from it, whenever it gets cold my feet go numb and they feel like the are burning in a cold fire. I can get the rest of my body as hot as I like, but my feet remain cold with that sensation of burning.... quite an enjoyable experience.
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The more interesting wounds and scars I have are emotional/spirtual.
Then again, teen angst has become so cliched, so nevermind...
- Oh yeah, my lungs ached a little when I sneezed a bit too hard thanks to my hay fever.
now i got a scar in my face <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
i allso crashed with a scooter in 70km/h downhill, my knee hitted the asphault first and it took about 3 sek untill i stoped <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
when i got to a doctor he said they couldnt sew it up, it wasnt enough skin or anything else left on my knee to work with <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
so i got a scar there to now <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I did, a piece of glass severed a nerve in my left hand as it cut the little bit of webbed skin between my thumb and finger right to the bone.
3" long scar on the inside of my right forearm (I was charging an M-60, and there was a wire that I didn't see sticking out from the side)
small scar on my jawline left side (ran into a peice of rebar sticking up that high. One would think that it would be more visible, but I guess not)
Countless scars on knees, and lower right ankle and foot (Guess how I learned to ride a bike? And I had a run in with a large bolt.... that one was particularly nasty)
And my ear drums are probably scarred if thats possible (3 surgurys, plus some great military doc who stuck a needle through it. "oops.. sorry")
Other than that though.... not really much. They were all minor... I've never been really burned (other than some sunburns), never broken a bone.....
I feel for 2 people I know who's got it bad. One of my friends sister broke her face (literally, all bones were shattered) when the convertable she was riding in flipped over. And an aunt of mine had 3rd degree burns over 80% of her body on 2 seperate occasions. Talk about scarring <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> *shudders* recovering from burns is one of the most painful things I can think of, much less actually getting them
also, infinitum is from australia too? sick. didnt think thered be so many australians here.....
all i got is a few inch long faint scar on upper part of my left leg... scraped it when i fell into pool <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> [on the pebbles on edge of pool, u know]
still, i got plenty of years left to be stupid and get owned, im only 14 [as of 29th may <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->]
edit: also, infinityx.... hahahahhaha
Well the teacher was useless and didn't show easy way to do it. So some muscle tissue got severed in process. It didn't feel too painful at the time but after that... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Every time I get exhausted my right shoulder starts to tingle and I hand gets little numb. I guess that some veins didn't recover from accident. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
But hey, more I do sports further away goes my limit to be exhausted. So as long as I keep my body in good condition, less I suffer. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
right&a little bit of my left elbow: High Tide Warning in Hawaii. Yeah, I didn't hear about it. Instead of dying I got scars on my elbows when I used my arms to protect my body from volcanic rocks.
Right knee: Same as above, the rocks had to knock me down in order to try and kill me, you know.
Blister in same index finger that is scarred. I never took it out, it's now this red thing on my finger that doesn't hurt.
Knuckles: years of karate will do that.
Back: you try rolling off a near-death experience without a little scarring. I rolled after a particularly nasty bike wreck. No hospitalization required, but the bike and a car were pretty much totalled (well the bike was, the car needed a new fender).
Another friend of mine was shot in his left arm. The bullet entered at the wrist and exited at the elbow. He's got scars running all the way down his forearm. They're not from the bullet, but from the operation: The bullet had smashed up his bones quite badly, so they had to cut open his entire forearm.
I HAVE two scars myself, but I'm not telling.
2-I was having fun riding my bike around when suddenly I hit a big rock. Luckily it just pushed me off the side of the road, and even better there was a driveway to catch my fall there. Unluckily, the driveway was gravel. I ended up with three dime size scars on my left knee.
Then there was the time i slammed my chin on a desk, leaving a nice inch long scar on the bottom of my chin.
Oh and you can't forget the gravel rash that covered the left side of my face for a couple of months.
Surprisingly I haven't broken a bone yet
[EDIT] woo, 1000th post has come and gone with minimal fanfare <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Scar on the left hand side of my chest, under my arm, from "the accident"(the one that left me with one kidney), where they inseterd a chest tube to drain out all the blood from my fractured spleen
Scar on my neck/collarbone area from where they inserted some other contraption to show that I had a collapsed lung therefore telling them why my blood-oxygen level was so low (this thing saved my life)
small scar on the palm of my hand where I fell off a bike onto gravel
numerous other small scars from who knows, they just appear, hey living on a farm is not easy.
They are removing stitches tomorrow \o/
And yes, acne scars. Evil things.
My friend, Jessica, is an artist (or fancies herself one -- I think she's pretty good.) Anyway, she's gotten into photography lately, and the latest thing she's been doing is taking pictures of her scars. Now, these aren't like, random scars you get while falling or whatever. She actually uses a knife and scrapes the skin off of herself in artsy patterns (like flowers or swirlies or whatever). She also makes brands, and brands herself. It's kind of sad that she likes to do this, but I guess it's art.
I'd post a picture but another artsy thing she does in her scar pictures is a (tasteful) lack of clothes. So sorry, I'm keeping this clean. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Rhuadin!
I have a broken foot which didn't heal right so it sorta hurts once in a while if I walk wrong on it wrong.
Then I got a bunch of little ones that I cant remeber how I got.
2. Scars on the inside of my left arm from 3-1 degree rope burn. Same incident.
3. Scar on my knee from ACL-MCL repair operation.
4. Scar on the inside left arm from god-only-knows. It looked like I shoved a stick or something up there... I just don't really know.
5. Scar on my forehead from stepping on a stick and have it come up and smack me in the head. Results in a funny sideways L when I frown.
6. Scar on my foot from wearing sandles all summer once. I don't know how it happened but it's been 2 years since that summer and it's still as bad as it was then.
7. Scar on my elbow from falling of my bike onto a large portion of gravle at a relitivly high velocity. Proceeds up to middle of right forearm.
8. Scar to the left of my right eye. Docter wasn't carefull enough when he was removing me from my mom with the forecepts. Jerk almost left me without vision in one eye. I'm told that I have another one on my chin but that seems to have healed.
I know I've got some other ones, it's just hard to remember them all. All of these expect the feet came from 7 years of being in a Boy Scout Venture crew. I don't regret any of this. Well, maybe the burns on my hands, I almost reduced myself to having claws because of the way that they were healing. Funniest thing out of this is that I've never once broken a bone.
I also have a sizeable scar on my right knee, which I seem to have killed all the nerves in, because I can't feel a thing in that area.
That, and all the random scars on my legs and a few small burn scars on my hands.
My whole right knee was open man!
Bloody mess, resulting in a scar.
Scar on the right side of my forehead (3 stitches from a fight)
A few scars on the inside of my right leg, from biking.
My right had was cut deep enough for 2 layers of stitches, but they didn't sew it up because they were afraid of infection. My left had had minor cuts on it, still hurt like none other.
My left Tricept and ribs (under my arm) were filled with road rash. The road rash wasn't deep, but it was dirty. I had to sit there while the Doctor scrubbed with with anti-bacterial soap. That hurt more than the crash.
We have it on video too, maybe I can convert it to a mpeg or avi and post it.
now, on to my scars...
One on my left index, right below the nail, from Nitro something, the stuff they use to burn off Warts.
one on the webbing between my first&second finger on left hand. Don't know how.
One inside my right (I think, it hasn't ached in a few days) knee, from two hyper-extensions of the muscles.
One running from lower knee area to my ankle, from the spiked wheel on a bike where the chains go. I tore a chunk of my flesh out and some little bits too.
One in my head, from too much schooling.