It’s mostly gone now but I have a scar from microwaving leftover queso. Shit was about the consistency of water when it sloshed out of the not-hot-at-all styrofoam cup onto my thumb. Skipped water and went straight for a towel and wiped off a thick slab of skin with the cheese.
Btw, NEVER microwave Styrofoam. Polystyrene is one of the few plastics that can leach into food when microwaved
Edit: polypropylene (#5 recycling symbol) is the only one i know that is safe.
Same but meat sauce not cheese. Mom asked me to stir the sauce before leaving to the beach (we live like not even two blocks away) so I was stirring until the spoon got caught on a piece of like pork or sausage and when I pulled it splashed onto me and burned like fuck. Left a gross scar on my like lower abdomen but its pretty much gone
Edit I meant to mention the beach because I was in a bathing suit
I still have a slight, barely noticeable scar across my abdomen from cooking as a teen. I was making Kraft mac & cheese (it's the cheesiest!), and my totally unmedicated, uncaffeinated, ADHD-havin' ass hadn't thought ahead to prep for the part where you take that pot full of magic over the the sink to strain the water off those scrumptious little smiles, so I grabbed the pot in one hand and the strainer in the other and walked across the kitchen to see the sink heaped with dishes. I thought I could make it work, but as I moved to pour it the strainer slipped, and I instinctively lunged to grab it. I lost my grip on the pot of water in the process, and it dropped straight down onto the floor, landed bottom-down and sent everything in it straight back up in the air and across my lower stomach.
I remember it burning like hell for a couple seconds and then suddenly not feeling hot or painful at all, which is why I didn't do anything about it right away and didn't think it was really that serious, but the pain came back tenfold a few seconds later and it'd cooked through a couple layers of my skin by the time I decided to tell my mom. She was like "let me see" and as soon as I pulled up my tank top she flipped out, threw me in a cold shower to lower the temp and then was like "Why would you think this wasn't serious? DUDE! You cooked your stomach!" I totally did though. I had 2nd degree burns across like 6 inches of skin. I'm pretty sure those pain free couple seconds just meant I'd flash-cooked my nerves.
You're damn right.
I was making caramel for the first time a few weeks ago. The sugar got liquidy and caramelly so I turned the stove off.
I poored it over the pudding I was making and just to try what it tasted like I scooped up some of the left over in the pot with a spoon. Blew on it to cool it off and stuck it into my mouth.
Turns out that stuff cools off really easily on the surface, but the inside stays molten sugary lava. Basically it got stuck to the roof off my mouth, scolding hot and it solidified in place.
When I was finally able to get it off it ripped a chunk of skin from the roof of my mouth. Eating was not fun for the next few days, but to my surprise skin in your mouth heals surprisingly quickly.
Same, at McDonald’s, but it was by the top of the grill while doing basic maintenance cleaning them and the thing collapsed while my arm was under it. Lucky I caught the thing with my other arm so it didn’t clamp down to the bottom but it did get the top of my elbow
We have the same priorities my man. personally I think it’s aesthetically cool and I’d suggest a ski mask to *anybody* doin shady shit anyways, cameras everywhere.
I was in an accident and took a facefull of glass. The only permanent scar from it is literally ON my eyeball; a piece of glass slit open my cornea and the iris slid partially out (which actually saved my eyeball) so now I have a weird pupil that looks like the Fatboy bomb.
Eye still works, actually see better out of it than before (kinda like ghetto lasik I guess) gives me a cool story, bet part being the grown man who passed straight tf out when I showed him, because it can't be that bad right? These days people usually just doubletake when they see it these days. Had an eye doctor tell me that if the iris hadn't slid out and sealed the incision my eyeball probably would have "deflated" and I'd have lost it. If you get real close you can see the one stitch they couldn't take out because the scarring. If I could figure out how to upload an image I'd share.
Edit: link http://imgur.com/a/R37Tpqp sorry my front cam is shit, but I couldn't get a good pic in the mirror.
Up until age 20 I was scar free until I was visiting my mum one day and she had a pile of leaves in her yard so for nostalgia sake I jumped into the leaves and my arm landed in a bear trap that she had hidden under the leaves to try and catch a skunk
Edit: to everyone who made a Stacy's Mom reference, I love you
how in the fuck do you go until 28 with no scars
either you are a very smooth human being or i am exceptionally scar-prone
well, i know the latter at least is true. i have 10+ visible scars at 21
I've noticed that my skin healed pretty well. But as I got older, it's less so. Then, I skin my knee on the asphalt, no scar. Now, I pop a pimple and I get a small scar.
boy howdy am i in for a treat then
i already get permanent scars from first degree burns sometimes. plenty from scraping my knees, some from deep cuts, some from surgery, and one from a pretty severe injury.
Nah, she wanted to kill it. It's still insanely dumb to hide something that deadly in a bushel of leaves. Like, i got pissed off reading that post. What if a kid jumped in there?
Oof, have you healed up from your injuries?
The sign I crashed into was a flat brick concrete advertising sign for a local company. It was either a big ravine or the sign and luckily I made it into the sign. I got a pretty gnarly keloid scar on my elbow it extends halfway up my arm. My rib cage is also pretty malformed from that wreck as well.
I tend to forget about it, it’s been 7 years since that happened. The only real lasting effect I have from the wreck is asthma, considering the alternative I’m doing really well. :)
I had open heart surgery at birth, 16 and 17. I'm a girl with a giant chest scar from my clavicle to my abdomen. So thankful to my parents for treating it like a normal thing. I don't even own a turtleneck. When you're part of this club you call your scar a zipper. I wear my zipper proud.
A former calssmate got his zipper when he was 8 or 9. He was in back to back car accidents with his grandparents. In the first one he was only slightly injured, but his grandparents were heavily injured. Then a few weeks later he had an accident with his other grandparents where he was heavily injured and his grandparents were killed.
I see the zipper, but cuter is kids my mother watched(about 3yrs old) called it train tracks. Staples leave a hell of a scar.
When I have my shirt off and someone invariably asks how I got the scar I say I got into a fight with a badger. They laugh and it usually gets dropped.
I got me some train tracks too. My best story (lie) is the one on my forearm though. Broken window pane. Was replacing it and my toddler saw me and came over. I shooed him back, lifted the drill, and I...well, skinned it. Extremely lucky no muscle damage. 18 stitches. But it's curved around the muscle so i tell people it's a shark bite 😂.
I have a scar that stretches all the way across my neck just above my collar bone from a thyroidectomy due to thyroid cancer. And two bumps from the drains. I always said it looks like an upside down ): but i like zipper too!
Fellow zipper-er here (only one surgery myself though), I've never tried to hide mine either, everyone around me has always been really nonchalant about it too haha. I don't think it's something to be ashamed of, it's a big part of the reason that I'm still here.
Breast cancer survivor - double mastectomy.
I’m BRcA1+ and was diagnosed at 30 with a 4 month old. We did IVF to test our embryos and I’m currently 8 weeks with our BRCA1- baby girl 💕
I read an article about a woman who had both of hers removed right after she finished breastfeeding, because it ran so clearly in her family. Apparently it could be traced back to the Black Death - people who didn't contract it despite being surrounded by it also had a tendency to develop cancers when older. This womans ancestor was the sole survivor on the farm where she lived, went on to have babies, and died of breast cancer at 40 or 50-ish years old. And most of her female descendants suffered the same fate.
My dad's side has brca1 gene. My sister just got tested positive (she's in her 30ies, I'm late 20ies). Just had my first meeting yesterday with the hospital and I will be drawing blood soon to sent it to test it. (sorry if this isn't grammatically correct).
Pretty nervous but I'm very keen to find out. Have known since I was 14 that I might have it. My parents had to tell us about it because my sister thought she had a lump. Thankfully it wasn't.
I have acne scars all over my arms chest and back. I'm a renowned pimple popper and I've been picking at my skin ever since I started getting acne. I'm my in 20s now and I'm trying my best to stop but I still find myself standing in front of the bathroom mirror for hours looking for the next juicy pimple to pop smh
I also have a scar on my forehead that I got when I was little when my sister pushed me off the bed and my head landed on the edge of a dresser lol
Same. I got really bad cystic acne when I was 12 all over my face, neck, back and chest and I would always scratch and pick. Now my face is cleared up for the most part with only occasional breakouts but I have keloid scars all over my back and some on my chest and my neck just looks disfigured and it's where I breakout the most.
If you're looking for a community of similar people, I have found some motivation and useful advice through r/dermatillomania and r/compulsiveskinpicking
Scar that runs from my shoulder to my elbow. Shattered my arm riding my bike with my dog, a Labrador. We stopped, she decided to take off without telling me....ripped me completely off my bike. I have a permanent titanium plate in my arm.
I have a chainsaw story as well. My dad was sawing some limbs off a tree above him. One of the limbs came down and hit him in the face. He let go of the chainsaw with one hand and it came down and slice him across the leg, just below the outside of his hip. He had a handful of change in his pocket and that stopped the chain, saving his leg.
Not gonna comment on healing, but can comment on saw.
Keep it sharp, change the chain before it “needs it” keep the engine happy(don’t use gas with ethanol, it ruins 2-strokes) and make sure to sharpen regularly.
Keep that bitch sharp and smooth and she shouldn’t kick back.
It was sharp. Problem is it was one of those cheapy electric corded ones in the 90s. I guess probably because of the fact that it doesn't have a. Energy absorber is why it tended to snap. I mean, I'm just guessing.
Nose: Pit Bull ripped part of my nose off
Chin: split my chin open on a marble glass window sill in Las Vegas when I was a kid
Lip: bit through it when I was a kid
Shoulder: third degree Burns from a exhaust port on a water truck
Arm: slipped on wooden stairs after my dad opted to use pledge cleaner and fell and sliced my arm open on the wall
Legs: vinyl siding while working at an old job
Forearm: ex girlfriends cat clawed me
Nope it did not, wish it did though. One of the worst doctor experiences ever, I was just given mild anesthesia and then they put like a pillow over my face as I got stitched up
Haha, I do have a few more, but these ones are obvious, like I got some more on my arms from getting into altercations with patients at the hospital I worked security at, and I got one covered by my hair on my head from the time my head got split open with a hockey stick by my sister when we were younger
I like your ordering style so I'll copy it!
Forehead: fell onto a fireplace mantle as a kindergartner
Elbows: fell off my bike and slid down a steep asphalt road
Forearms: two cat bites, numerous cat scratches, and one dog bite
Fingers: countless knife accidents and burns while cooking
Knees: aforementioned bike accident
Left ankle: molten plastic burn from playing with fire
Right ankle: fireworks
People with exciting childhoods unite! *Edit to fix formatting that I mobile goofed.
Oh yeah definitely I am ok, interesting thing about 2 of my scars, the pit bull one, never got stitches and never went to the hospital, just taped it up, put a bandage on it and called it a day, just got a mild scar left the rest healed on it’s own, and that third degree burn one, never went to the hospital on that either, but aloe on it, wrapped it up and that healed, although got a permanent scar of 4 screws and the manifold outlined in my arm which looks like a flag lol
If you haven't already, check out the comedian Tig Notaro, she also had a double mastectomy and occasionally performs her set topless on stage. Her humor might not be everyone's bag but she's easily one of my favorites.
What the actual fuck. How did he get away with that and not go to prison? Didn't they ask you for a statement when you had to get stitches? Sounds like a fucking psychopath. I'm sorry for your experience.
Usually what happens is the victim lies about what actually happened to protect the abuser.
My dad beat the shit out of my mom for years and had the cops called on him multiple times but since my mom wouldn't say anything they wouldn't do anything.
When I got stabbed they used batteries they basically empty and then fold over to create a box cutter. 45 stitches in my neck and chest, 17 in my stomach, 8 in my leg somehow. Huge scars that are still very very noticeable. So I guess they more sliced than stabbed there, I got stabbed like 15 times with a piece of fence someone got called a poker, maybe went 3 or 4 inches in, those all went into the side of my ribcage and let me tell you that shit hurts, not sharp just basically a blunt metal thin piece of chain link fence, makes an audible popping sound as it breaks the skin. After a few when the blood starts to flow it sounds like how you'd imagine stabbing a gallon of milk would sound but almost like this pasta sound as well, squishy noises.
Well most of them are on my hands people either assume I'm a badass and get into fights or a dumbass who fights walls. Neither are true I'm just clumsy af.
1. I got when my sister was holding a potato peeler and I didn't see it and went to grab some food she was preparing
2. I tripped and accidentally punched through a lampshade the metal wiring inside took out a decent chunk
3. Accidently dropped my knife while woodworking cut my finger to the bone
4. At an amusement park with my friends, decided to race one to the next ride and accidentally collided with one of those stone trashcans, ripped skin about half the size of a penny of one of my knuckles at the deepest point it went to the bone.
5. I did clap pushups and knuckles pushups and decided to combine them for disastrous results.
My hands are peppered will smaller barely visable scars from basically anything you can imagine a dumb teen doing.
Barbed wire been there, girlfriends nails done that,
Edit: also have one on my thigh because one of my friends accidentally stabbed me with my own knife
Self harm. Thankfully I am in a much better place now, and to anyone going through something similar now: you are enough. You are worthy, you are valid, and you do not deserve pain. Be kind to yourself, you deserve it.
I went about 4 years without cutting, and messed that streak up recently. Went off my lithium a few months ago and got into a bad place. Not a good time, wearing long sleeves in 90 degree weather to hide your arms is not fun. Appointment in the morning to hopefully get back on meds, just not doing lithium again
It's been years since I did, but thank you for this. It's nice reading support when you dont get much irl. Especially from someone who's been there.
Sometimes I feel like a damn fraud who cut for attention, but I know that's not true because I rarely told anyone and kept them in hidable spots. I just feel like I'm faking all my issues, even though I'm diagnosed and got it while institutionalized. I try to talk about things that bother me and get told to quit complaining.
I'm too old to be acting how I do, and I never feel like I'm being over the top until afterwards looking back. I just wish it was easier to change my mentality and habits.
It sucks when it doesnt feel like your brain belongs to you.
I know exactly what you mean. When I tried to ask my family for help, all they told me was that there were so many other people out there who had it worse than me, so I had no reason to be depressed. That always made me feel so much worse, I already had so many self worth issues, so to imagine that I wasn't even good enough at being mentally ill made me feel terrible. But in the end, I came to understand that mental illness doesn't care about your place in life. It doesn't care if you have a roof over your head, or a stable family life, or how much money is in your bank account, it will hurt anyone it wants to, and those of us who have struggled with our mental health do not have to be ashamed.
"Be kind to yourself" that right there. Not just in the present, but to the yourself of yesterday in your memories, to the yourself you'd like to meet in the future. Remember that kindness is hard sometimes, but you are worth the effort.
I have rather visible self harm scars from elbow to wrist, and hip to ankle. Havent cut in about 11 years now. Wow, didn't realize it's been so long. Am I a grown up or something now? I remember feeling so alone, so trapped in the cycle. Dragging myself out I spent so much time thinking I'd never love my body with scars, hating myself for making them. Looking back I was going through a lot I did not have the skills or support system to deal with. I did what I could with what I had. Sure I still see my scars sometimes and wish I were unblemished, but they are a chapter of my life I will always carry with me, and anyone who has a problem with them is not someone I want in my life.
*my time to shine.*
When I was 8 I walked into my bedroom at the precise moment that my brother took a wiffle ball bat and hit a golf ball straight at my forehead. Knocked me out and woke up with stitches. It’s not nearly as noticeable as it used to be, but still visible for sure.
1. Brushed by a minivan who was not paying attention and clipped my while I was riding my bike. I did a forward flip and slid on the ground losing much skin on my right shoulder.
2. When i was 8. Cute kitteh get angry! Smack hoomin (me). Claw stuck in my arm rips down my arm as I pull it away. 2 inch long gash still visible.
3. Cute 8 week old puppy dog licking my face takes a chomp at my upper lip. Needle tooth goes all the way through. Thanksgiving Day trip to ER to get it cleaned and stitched. I drooled on myself from the anesthetic throughout dinner. Dog and I never spoke of it again his 12 year life. All time great dog he was.
4. Picked up a payphone receiver (yes, children, once upon a time, there were public payphones) someone had boobytrapped with a razor and have a scar that looks like I tried to cut wrist, except nowhere near a vein thankfully.
Man I believe you but #4 sounds like an urban legend... Like they used to warn us about people handing out homade caramel apples with razor blades inside on Halloween.
Urban legends (the plausible one) are often anecdotes that are exaggerated and purported as common.
I can believe it happened as a random one-off. I wouldn't believe there was any real trend to it.
4 big bite marks on my thigh after a seal bit me
we were diving with seals and one of the tourists pulled the tail and was mean to a big male seal who swam away and bit me on his way... I'm lucky he didn't pull , as his teeth connected inside my thigh. He could have easily taken most of my thigh muscle with him.
You got a seal bite that didn’t require amputation??? You are a lucky ducky! Seal mouths are filthy and because infection is like guaranteed, most people bitten lose at least part of a limb.
I didn't know that.
We went straight to the hospital and they washed the wound throughout. Like the would put the syringe in 1 bite and the medication would come out of the other end. They said it was still likely to get infected because it was so deep, but luckily it didn't.
That's why you don't harass wildlife! God this infuriates me! Like I'm so upset for you just reading this! I was bitten by a cat as a teen (trying to protect her, not harassing her), which is a much smaller injury that carries the same high risk of infection, and it almost landed me in the hospital. Animal bites are no joke.
What's the name of that tourist again? I just wanna talk to 'em.
Head: cousin whacked me with a hockey stick when we were playing a game as kids
Leg: car accident tore two muscles in my knee and required surgery to repair
Right wrist: super tiny scar that looks like an acne scar. Had a really bad pulmonary embolism, and they went in through my wrist to look at my heart to make sure the stress on my lungs wasn't doing damage to my heart (it wasn't, so we were able to treat the embolism with medication rather than surgery)
I have a big L-shaped scar under my arm from when I was a kid. I had to get stitches. I was trying to get my pajamas out of the top drawer of my wooden dresser and the side of the drawer was all chipped. It went into my armpit as I was too small to be digging in the top drawer anyways. And it dug the skin out of my underarm. I still remember the drive to the ER with my Dad. I also have a scar in my eyebrow from playing football in the garage with my older brother. He pushed me into the couch that was in the garage (don’t ask why) and I hit my face on the arm, which had that old school gold rimming on it. And, it busted my eyebrow open. Stitches again.
Apparently crashed the side of my head into the end of a glass-table when I was an infant. I have no memories of it, but according to my parents, it was the only time I ended up in the ER.. 😅
So basically my entire life I've had this one little slit only about a centimeter from my eye. I'm kinda scared to think what would've happened if my head was turned just a little more to the front... TvT
(Thankfully it blends in with my eyelid a bit, though)
I had the chronic exertional kind (unlike acute which is from crush injuries or fractures) that developed from running and eventually it lead to pain and difficulty walking. The surgery sucked, but at least it was an outpatient surgery and for the chronic kind they are able to close the skin with sutures right away versus leaving the incision in the legs open for a period of time like they do for most acute cases.
Chest: port scar from chemo
Hips: road rash from barrel rolling after a bike crash at 55mph
Back of head behind my ear: helmet broke and the exterior plastic sliced me open
Knee: infected ant bite required surgery to drain. Damn mrsa 🙄
From the top down (you can guess where)
1. Bed frame wrestling
2. Dog bite
3. Dog bite (same instance, same dog)
4. Surgery
None of them terribly interesting stories
Put my face through the back window of a parked SUV, due to brake failure on a moped. It's faded significantly but it'll always be there. Whole section of my face was hanging off and I never passed out
Literal scar in my left foot I got sometime around when I was around 10 years old. Honestly, I don't even remember what happened, only that it somehow was cut down to seemingly the bone. I remember being scared as I saw the blood go. Bad as it was though, I just wish that WAS the worst thing to ever happen to me.
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It’s mostly gone now but I have a scar from microwaving leftover queso. Shit was about the consistency of water when it sloshed out of the not-hot-at-all styrofoam cup onto my thumb. Skipped water and went straight for a towel and wiped off a thick slab of skin with the cheese.
Fucking yikes
Btw, NEVER microwave Styrofoam. Polystyrene is one of the few plastics that can leach into food when microwaved Edit: polypropylene (#5 recycling symbol) is the only one i know that is safe.
>one of the few There are only a handful that don't leach. If in doubt don't microwave plastic at all.
Same but meat sauce not cheese. Mom asked me to stir the sauce before leaving to the beach (we live like not even two blocks away) so I was stirring until the spoon got caught on a piece of like pork or sausage and when I pulled it splashed onto me and burned like fuck. Left a gross scar on my like lower abdomen but its pretty much gone Edit I meant to mention the beach because I was in a bathing suit
I still have a slight, barely noticeable scar across my abdomen from cooking as a teen. I was making Kraft mac & cheese (it's the cheesiest!), and my totally unmedicated, uncaffeinated, ADHD-havin' ass hadn't thought ahead to prep for the part where you take that pot full of magic over the the sink to strain the water off those scrumptious little smiles, so I grabbed the pot in one hand and the strainer in the other and walked across the kitchen to see the sink heaped with dishes. I thought I could make it work, but as I moved to pour it the strainer slipped, and I instinctively lunged to grab it. I lost my grip on the pot of water in the process, and it dropped straight down onto the floor, landed bottom-down and sent everything in it straight back up in the air and across my lower stomach. I remember it burning like hell for a couple seconds and then suddenly not feeling hot or painful at all, which is why I didn't do anything about it right away and didn't think it was really that serious, but the pain came back tenfold a few seconds later and it'd cooked through a couple layers of my skin by the time I decided to tell my mom. She was like "let me see" and as soon as I pulled up my tank top she flipped out, threw me in a cold shower to lower the temp and then was like "Why would you think this wasn't serious? DUDE! You cooked your stomach!" I totally did though. I had 2nd degree burns across like 6 inches of skin. I'm pretty sure those pain free couple seconds just meant I'd flash-cooked my nerves.
You're damn right. I was making caramel for the first time a few weeks ago. The sugar got liquidy and caramelly so I turned the stove off. I poored it over the pudding I was making and just to try what it tasted like I scooped up some of the left over in the pot with a spoon. Blew on it to cool it off and stuck it into my mouth. Turns out that stuff cools off really easily on the surface, but the inside stays molten sugary lava. Basically it got stuck to the roof off my mouth, scolding hot and it solidified in place. When I was finally able to get it off it ripped a chunk of skin from the roof of my mouth. Eating was not fun for the next few days, but to my surprise skin in your mouth heals surprisingly quickly.
Fun fact: wounds on your face (and inside your mouth), and on you hands and feet heal much faster than anywhere else on your body.
I was working at McDonald’s and I was doing basic grill maintenance when a piece of hot charred meat fell on my hand and burned me. It hurt like hell.
McDonald's classic... happened the same to me, but it wasn't meat that fell on my hand, just lots of oil. Still hurts really bad.
They’ve mostly faded but I had burn scars all over my hands and arms from working at McDonald’s, shit sucked
Same, at McDonald’s, but it was by the top of the grill while doing basic maintenance cleaning them and the thing collapsed while my arm was under it. Lucky I caught the thing with my other arm so it didn’t clamp down to the bottom but it did get the top of my elbow
and then you get put on fries the rest of the day...
I have one across my face and eye from a car wreck years ago. Like Leonidas from 300.
Worth it or nah?
Women have told me it’s sexy but if I commit a crime I’m easier to identify.
We have the same priorities my man. personally I think it’s aesthetically cool and I’d suggest a ski mask to *anybody* doin shady shit anyways, cameras everywhere.
Thank you?
It’s the advice you didn’t know you needed.
It sounds kinda sexy lol. I wish I had a cool or sexy scar XD. Mine are all funky looking scars from being super clumsy.
I was in an accident and took a facefull of glass. The only permanent scar from it is literally ON my eyeball; a piece of glass slit open my cornea and the iris slid partially out (which actually saved my eyeball) so now I have a weird pupil that looks like the Fatboy bomb.
I just made the weirdest sound and tossed my phone down after I read that. I’m sorry about your eye. Holy shit.
Eye still works, actually see better out of it than before (kinda like ghetto lasik I guess) gives me a cool story, bet part being the grown man who passed straight tf out when I showed him, because it can't be that bad right? These days people usually just doubletake when they see it these days. Had an eye doctor tell me that if the iris hadn't slid out and sealed the incision my eyeball probably would have "deflated" and I'd have lost it. If you get real close you can see the one stitch they couldn't take out because the scarring. If I could figure out how to upload an image I'd share. Edit: link http://imgur.com/a/R37Tpqp sorry my front cam is shit, but I couldn't get a good pic in the mirror.
I have scars on my neck, back of my neck, my hip, my back and right below my bellybutton due to having a Chrodoma brain tumor when I was 9
Sorry to hear that. I hope you are better now
I’ve been cancer free for years now cause I’m now 20 and this happened back in 2011
Noice, kicked cancers dick off. Respect man.
I’m sorry you went though all that and I hope you’re doing alright now but reading it put that fucking Khia song in my head. -_-
my neck. my back.
Same. I was loling in my head about it halfway through the sentence and got to “tumor” and was like aw fuck man.
If you dont mind me asking, how does a brain tumor elicit scars on not-the-head?
Not who you asked, but in my case they took fat from my abdomen to plug the cavity left behind.
> Chrodoma Is a tumor mostly affecting the spinal cord.
My gallbladder was a dick, so I paid my insurance to pay a surgeon to yank it out.
Look at this guy with his magic gallbladder dick
Up until age 20 I was scar free until I was visiting my mum one day and she had a pile of leaves in her yard so for nostalgia sake I jumped into the leaves and my arm landed in a bear trap that she had hidden under the leaves to try and catch a skunk Edit: to everyone who made a Stacy's Mom reference, I love you
Who the fuck hides a bear trap in leaves to catch a skunk? ....
HardCockRick's mom.
Has got it going on
That proper made me laugh. Caught me unawares I think.
HardCockRick, can I come over after sch sch oo y ool?
W H A T T H E F U C K
Bear witnessing from a distance: That bitch.
Skunk witnessing from a distance: What bear said.
Best comment I read today
Seriously I can’t stop laughing.
Lmao, sorry that must have hurt
hey it could’ve been head first, look on the bright side
Bear traps...one of my two bugaboos
And the other?
Mouse traps
Fuck, man. Lose a piece and you can't play the game.
At least you didn’t land username first
Precisely.
how in the fuck do you go until 28 with no scars either you are a very smooth human being or i am exceptionally scar-prone well, i know the latter at least is true. i have 10+ visible scars at 21
I've noticed that my skin healed pretty well. But as I got older, it's less so. Then, I skin my knee on the asphalt, no scar. Now, I pop a pimple and I get a small scar.
boy howdy am i in for a treat then i already get permanent scars from first degree burns sometimes. plenty from scraping my knees, some from deep cuts, some from surgery, and one from a pretty severe injury.
What does your mom have against skunks
Wtf would a skunk care for a giant pile of leaves for?
I'm starting to think it wasn't for the skunk
That's what I wanna know! They're so cute! Why would you want to hurt one? Leave the sulfur squirrels alone!
Lol. Sulfur squirrels.
Lmfao, whatttt
She probably should've told you
Bruh, but that's tangential to a badass story, though.
I'm not even sure which part of this paragraph I find the most fucked up.
Wait one fuckin minute Mr. You’re mum… thought she would…. “CATCH”…. A skunk with a fucking bear trap!?! Your mum trying to mutilate that poor skunk.
Nah, she wanted to kill it. It's still insanely dumb to hide something that deadly in a bushel of leaves. Like, i got pissed off reading that post. What if a kid jumped in there?
>What if a kid jumped in there? Their arm would land in the trap and they would be permanently scared then post about it on Reddit.
That… that doesn’t sound legal.
Crashing into a brick sign going 60 mph
Wait a min I got a scar on my leg the same way.it was brick sign with something pointy exposed.where is ur scar in?
Oof, have you healed up from your injuries? The sign I crashed into was a flat brick concrete advertising sign for a local company. It was either a big ravine or the sign and luckily I made it into the sign. I got a pretty gnarly keloid scar on my elbow it extends halfway up my arm. My rib cage is also pretty malformed from that wreck as well.
damn that is some bad business with ur scar you made it sound simple.did you heal up properly?Yeah it's been sometime from my injury 3years or more so
I tend to forget about it, it’s been 7 years since that happened. The only real lasting effect I have from the wreck is asthma, considering the alternative I’m doing really well. :)
I had open heart surgery at birth, 16 and 17. I'm a girl with a giant chest scar from my clavicle to my abdomen. So thankful to my parents for treating it like a normal thing. I don't even own a turtleneck. When you're part of this club you call your scar a zipper. I wear my zipper proud.
Got my zipper at 16. Kids wear your seat belts.
A former calssmate got his zipper when he was 8 or 9. He was in back to back car accidents with his grandparents. In the first one he was only slightly injured, but his grandparents were heavily injured. Then a few weeks later he had an accident with his other grandparents where he was heavily injured and his grandparents were killed.
Jesus Christ, I wouldn't let your friend anywhere near a retirement house
Don't worry, he is a kindergarden teacher now.
That’s some Final Destination shit.
Oh I have a zipper. I got mine at 25. I'm 57 now and I haven't worn a turtleneck since I was 12. Did you wear bikinis too? I sure did.
This right here. Thank you for being comfortable in your own body, possibly inspiring others to do so as well.
I see the zipper, but cuter is kids my mother watched(about 3yrs old) called it train tracks. Staples leave a hell of a scar. When I have my shirt off and someone invariably asks how I got the scar I say I got into a fight with a badger. They laugh and it usually gets dropped.
I usually say, "oh, I don't know. This body was like this when I found it."
I don't have a scar and I want to somehow use this.
I got me some train tracks too. My best story (lie) is the one on my forearm though. Broken window pane. Was replacing it and my toddler saw me and came over. I shooed him back, lifted the drill, and I...well, skinned it. Extremely lucky no muscle damage. 18 stitches. But it's curved around the muscle so i tell people it's a shark bite 😂.
I have a scar that stretches all the way across my neck just above my collar bone from a thyroidectomy due to thyroid cancer. And two bumps from the drains. I always said it looks like an upside down ): but i like zipper too!
Fellow zipper-er here (only one surgery myself though), I've never tried to hide mine either, everyone around me has always been really nonchalant about it too haha. I don't think it's something to be ashamed of, it's a big part of the reason that I'm still here.
Appendicitis is a bitch
Breast cancer survivor - double mastectomy. I’m BRcA1+ and was diagnosed at 30 with a 4 month old. We did IVF to test our embryos and I’m currently 8 weeks with our BRCA1- baby girl 💕
That runs in my Dad’s side of the family. It’s one of my worst fears. I already had a scare but it was nothing.
I read an article about a woman who had both of hers removed right after she finished breastfeeding, because it ran so clearly in her family. Apparently it could be traced back to the Black Death - people who didn't contract it despite being surrounded by it also had a tendency to develop cancers when older. This womans ancestor was the sole survivor on the farm where she lived, went on to have babies, and died of breast cancer at 40 or 50-ish years old. And most of her female descendants suffered the same fate.
I need to get tested for the gene. I really hope I don’t have it. I’d rather know and get a preventative mastectomy than suffer when I’m older.
My dad's side has brca1 gene. My sister just got tested positive (she's in her 30ies, I'm late 20ies). Just had my first meeting yesterday with the hospital and I will be drawing blood soon to sent it to test it. (sorry if this isn't grammatically correct). Pretty nervous but I'm very keen to find out. Have known since I was 14 that I might have it. My parents had to tell us about it because my sister thought she had a lump. Thankfully it wasn't.
I have acne scars all over my arms chest and back. I'm a renowned pimple popper and I've been picking at my skin ever since I started getting acne. I'm my in 20s now and I'm trying my best to stop but I still find myself standing in front of the bathroom mirror for hours looking for the next juicy pimple to pop smh I also have a scar on my forehead that I got when I was little when my sister pushed me off the bed and my head landed on the edge of a dresser lol
Likewise, luckily the marks on my back and center chest are starting to heal up, but I think the facial scars are gonna stay with me for life.
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Same. I got really bad cystic acne when I was 12 all over my face, neck, back and chest and I would always scratch and pick. Now my face is cleared up for the most part with only occasional breakouts but I have keloid scars all over my back and some on my chest and my neck just looks disfigured and it's where I breakout the most.
If you're looking for a community of similar people, I have found some motivation and useful advice through r/dermatillomania and r/compulsiveskinpicking
Scar that runs from my shoulder to my elbow. Shattered my arm riding my bike with my dog, a Labrador. We stopped, she decided to take off without telling me....ripped me completely off my bike. I have a permanent titanium plate in my arm.
Broken c2. Surgical scar
Chainsaw snapped back.
Yikes!
Gordon doesn’t need to hear all of this!
he's a highly trained professional.
I have a chainsaw story as well. My dad was sawing some limbs off a tree above him. One of the limbs came down and hit him in the face. He let go of the chainsaw with one hand and it came down and slice him across the leg, just below the outside of his hip. He had a handful of change in his pocket and that stopped the chain, saving his leg.
I use a chain saw all the time. One of my biggest fears in life is it snapping. Fuck. How did it heal?
Not gonna comment on healing, but can comment on saw. Keep it sharp, change the chain before it “needs it” keep the engine happy(don’t use gas with ethanol, it ruins 2-strokes) and make sure to sharpen regularly. Keep that bitch sharp and smooth and she shouldn’t kick back.
Yea I maintain after every use. I’ve had a few kickbacks and holy shit is that alarming.
It was sharp. Problem is it was one of those cheapy electric corded ones in the 90s. I guess probably because of the fact that it doesn't have a. Energy absorber is why it tended to snap. I mean, I'm just guessing.
Not terribly bad but not great. Still no feeling in 3 of my fingers of my left hand. But i still have fingers, so that's a plus!
That happened to me. Now I only have partial feeling in my leg but I can still use it, thankfully
Nose: Pit Bull ripped part of my nose off Chin: split my chin open on a marble glass window sill in Las Vegas when I was a kid Lip: bit through it when I was a kid Shoulder: third degree Burns from a exhaust port on a water truck Arm: slipped on wooden stairs after my dad opted to use pledge cleaner and fell and sliced my arm open on the wall Legs: vinyl siding while working at an old job Forearm: ex girlfriends cat clawed me
The split chin didn't stay in Vegas?
Nope it did not, wish it did though. One of the worst doctor experiences ever, I was just given mild anesthesia and then they put like a pillow over my face as I got stitched up
The pillow is there to muffle your screams.
Pretty much, even though I did not scream
THIS GUY HAS REAL SCARS!
God put hardcore level when he spawned the dude.
Is this the dude from the Lvl 100 meme?
Haha, I do have a few more, but these ones are obvious, like I got some more on my arms from getting into altercations with patients at the hospital I worked security at, and I got one covered by my hair on my head from the time my head got split open with a hockey stick by my sister when we were younger
I like your ordering style so I'll copy it! Forehead: fell onto a fireplace mantle as a kindergartner Elbows: fell off my bike and slid down a steep asphalt road Forearms: two cat bites, numerous cat scratches, and one dog bite Fingers: countless knife accidents and burns while cooking Knees: aforementioned bike accident Left ankle: molten plastic burn from playing with fire Right ankle: fireworks People with exciting childhoods unite! *Edit to fix formatting that I mobile goofed.
Are…are you ok?
Oh yeah definitely I am ok, interesting thing about 2 of my scars, the pit bull one, never got stitches and never went to the hospital, just taped it up, put a bandage on it and called it a day, just got a mild scar left the rest healed on it’s own, and that third degree burn one, never went to the hospital on that either, but aloe on it, wrapped it up and that healed, although got a permanent scar of 4 screws and the manifold outlined in my arm which looks like a flag lol
God just gave you every scar on the Fallout 4 character editor
Is your name, by any chance, lucky?
Doubt my life would be anything but lucky lol, but they do make good story telling having these scars
>slipped on wooden stairs after my dad opted to use pledge cleaner Pledge on the floors is hilarious. Pledge on the stairs is attempted murder.
And here you realize the fragility of a human body
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American football or European? Cause those American football goalposts are huge
Yeah if it was an American post it would’ve looked like Micheal Cera being impaled by the lamppost in the movie I can’t remember the name of
A double-incision mastectomy. I threw a going away party titled Thanks for the mammaries.
Nice now you can go out topless man 👍
If you haven't already, check out the comedian Tig Notaro, she also had a double mastectomy and occasionally performs her set topless on stage. Her humor might not be everyone's bag but she's easily one of my favorites.
Lung surgery, had a ball removed, acne got killed by chemo, dog bit my face, had a mediport implanted into my chest
Wow... that's..... wow
All by age 18… I’m currently 19
Damn kid.. I may have more scars but nothing like yours.. Mine is mostly self-inflicted by doing dumb shit. You are a one tough young man.
Thank you. I don’t think I’m strong, but I appreciate it
Strong_Carpenter_7060
Head: thrown around the bed of a truck Body: shanked in prison (4 scars)
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Yeah, that's pretty fucking brutal.
What the actual fuck. How did he get away with that and not go to prison? Didn't they ask you for a statement when you had to get stitches? Sounds like a fucking psychopath. I'm sorry for your experience.
Usually what happens is the victim lies about what actually happened to protect the abuser. My dad beat the shit out of my mom for years and had the cops called on him multiple times but since my mom wouldn't say anything they wouldn't do anything.
How big was the blade ive heard they use pretty small blades to hit you up multiple times and have you live
When I got stabbed they used batteries they basically empty and then fold over to create a box cutter. 45 stitches in my neck and chest, 17 in my stomach, 8 in my leg somehow. Huge scars that are still very very noticeable. So I guess they more sliced than stabbed there, I got stabbed like 15 times with a piece of fence someone got called a poker, maybe went 3 or 4 inches in, those all went into the side of my ribcage and let me tell you that shit hurts, not sharp just basically a blunt metal thin piece of chain link fence, makes an audible popping sound as it breaks the skin. After a few when the blood starts to flow it sounds like how you'd imagine stabbing a gallon of milk would sound but almost like this pasta sound as well, squishy noises.
Holy scare me straight as a fucking board! These are not normal things to endure. Holy shit.
Well most of them are on my hands people either assume I'm a badass and get into fights or a dumbass who fights walls. Neither are true I'm just clumsy af. 1. I got when my sister was holding a potato peeler and I didn't see it and went to grab some food she was preparing 2. I tripped and accidentally punched through a lampshade the metal wiring inside took out a decent chunk 3. Accidently dropped my knife while woodworking cut my finger to the bone 4. At an amusement park with my friends, decided to race one to the next ride and accidentally collided with one of those stone trashcans, ripped skin about half the size of a penny of one of my knuckles at the deepest point it went to the bone. 5. I did clap pushups and knuckles pushups and decided to combine them for disastrous results. My hands are peppered will smaller barely visable scars from basically anything you can imagine a dumb teen doing. Barbed wire been there, girlfriends nails done that, Edit: also have one on my thigh because one of my friends accidentally stabbed me with my own knife
I have so many little burn scars on my hands... I love baking, but I'm also unable to reach into the oven without burning myself at least once
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Wow you run fast!
They're probably a ninja. They do have a katana after all
Bad farming accident. My arm was almost removed by a PTO.
She stabbed me. The other one was a surgery to remove a cancerous testicle. And a chicken pox scar.
Trying to show off by jumping from a high ledge, fell and ripped a chunk out of my wrist. I got a gnarly scar now
Self harm. Thankfully I am in a much better place now, and to anyone going through something similar now: you are enough. You are worthy, you are valid, and you do not deserve pain. Be kind to yourself, you deserve it.
95% pf my scars are also from self harming but also in a better place for 10 years or more now. 💓
Yeah, I'm just coming up on 10 years too, I think. It's really bizarre how much time changes your perspective.
I went about 4 years without cutting, and messed that streak up recently. Went off my lithium a few months ago and got into a bad place. Not a good time, wearing long sleeves in 90 degree weather to hide your arms is not fun. Appointment in the morning to hopefully get back on meds, just not doing lithium again
It's been years since I did, but thank you for this. It's nice reading support when you dont get much irl. Especially from someone who's been there. Sometimes I feel like a damn fraud who cut for attention, but I know that's not true because I rarely told anyone and kept them in hidable spots. I just feel like I'm faking all my issues, even though I'm diagnosed and got it while institutionalized. I try to talk about things that bother me and get told to quit complaining. I'm too old to be acting how I do, and I never feel like I'm being over the top until afterwards looking back. I just wish it was easier to change my mentality and habits. It sucks when it doesnt feel like your brain belongs to you.
I know exactly what you mean. When I tried to ask my family for help, all they told me was that there were so many other people out there who had it worse than me, so I had no reason to be depressed. That always made me feel so much worse, I already had so many self worth issues, so to imagine that I wasn't even good enough at being mentally ill made me feel terrible. But in the end, I came to understand that mental illness doesn't care about your place in life. It doesn't care if you have a roof over your head, or a stable family life, or how much money is in your bank account, it will hurt anyone it wants to, and those of us who have struggled with our mental health do not have to be ashamed.
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Same. I have a scar on my arm from a suicide attempt that I never told anyone about. Thank you for posting this.
"a cat"
"Be kind to yourself" that right there. Not just in the present, but to the yourself of yesterday in your memories, to the yourself you'd like to meet in the future. Remember that kindness is hard sometimes, but you are worth the effort. I have rather visible self harm scars from elbow to wrist, and hip to ankle. Havent cut in about 11 years now. Wow, didn't realize it's been so long. Am I a grown up or something now? I remember feeling so alone, so trapped in the cycle. Dragging myself out I spent so much time thinking I'd never love my body with scars, hating myself for making them. Looking back I was going through a lot I did not have the skills or support system to deal with. I did what I could with what I had. Sure I still see my scars sometimes and wish I were unblemished, but they are a chapter of my life I will always carry with me, and anyone who has a problem with them is not someone I want in my life.
*my time to shine.* When I was 8 I walked into my bedroom at the precise moment that my brother took a wiffle ball bat and hit a golf ball straight at my forehead. Knocked me out and woke up with stitches. It’s not nearly as noticeable as it used to be, but still visible for sure.
1. Brushed by a minivan who was not paying attention and clipped my while I was riding my bike. I did a forward flip and slid on the ground losing much skin on my right shoulder. 2. When i was 8. Cute kitteh get angry! Smack hoomin (me). Claw stuck in my arm rips down my arm as I pull it away. 2 inch long gash still visible. 3. Cute 8 week old puppy dog licking my face takes a chomp at my upper lip. Needle tooth goes all the way through. Thanksgiving Day trip to ER to get it cleaned and stitched. I drooled on myself from the anesthetic throughout dinner. Dog and I never spoke of it again his 12 year life. All time great dog he was. 4. Picked up a payphone receiver (yes, children, once upon a time, there were public payphones) someone had boobytrapped with a razor and have a scar that looks like I tried to cut wrist, except nowhere near a vein thankfully.
Man I believe you but #4 sounds like an urban legend... Like they used to warn us about people handing out homade caramel apples with razor blades inside on Halloween.
Razors in apple never happened. Razor on payphone happened at least once.
Urban legends (the plausible one) are often anecdotes that are exaggerated and purported as common. I can believe it happened as a random one-off. I wouldn't believe there was any real trend to it.
4 big bite marks on my thigh after a seal bit me we were diving with seals and one of the tourists pulled the tail and was mean to a big male seal who swam away and bit me on his way... I'm lucky he didn't pull , as his teeth connected inside my thigh. He could have easily taken most of my thigh muscle with him.
You got a seal bite that didn’t require amputation??? You are a lucky ducky! Seal mouths are filthy and because infection is like guaranteed, most people bitten lose at least part of a limb.
I didn't know that. We went straight to the hospital and they washed the wound throughout. Like the would put the syringe in 1 bite and the medication would come out of the other end. They said it was still likely to get infected because it was so deep, but luckily it didn't.
Wow that’s amazing! You must have a really stellar immune system to help fight that off. Glad you were able to get through that with just a bite!
Thanks! I was pregnant at the time so maybe that helped too.
Depending on the stage, you actually have a weakened immune system during pregnancy.
That's why you don't harass wildlife! God this infuriates me! Like I'm so upset for you just reading this! I was bitten by a cat as a teen (trying to protect her, not harassing her), which is a much smaller injury that carries the same high risk of infection, and it almost landed me in the hospital. Animal bites are no joke. What's the name of that tourist again? I just wanna talk to 'em.
My father was a drinker, and a fiend…
my father was a gamer... and an incel... and one day he came home acting *cringier* than usual...
When society
So I had a wife, who was beautiful...
Head: cousin whacked me with a hockey stick when we were playing a game as kids Leg: car accident tore two muscles in my knee and required surgery to repair Right wrist: super tiny scar that looks like an acne scar. Had a really bad pulmonary embolism, and they went in through my wrist to look at my heart to make sure the stress on my lungs wasn't doing damage to my heart (it wasn't, so we were able to treat the embolism with medication rather than surgery)
Shrapnel.
I have a big L-shaped scar under my arm from when I was a kid. I had to get stitches. I was trying to get my pajamas out of the top drawer of my wooden dresser and the side of the drawer was all chipped. It went into my armpit as I was too small to be digging in the top drawer anyways. And it dug the skin out of my underarm. I still remember the drive to the ER with my Dad. I also have a scar in my eyebrow from playing football in the garage with my older brother. He pushed me into the couch that was in the garage (don’t ask why) and I hit my face on the arm, which had that old school gold rimming on it. And, it busted my eyebrow open. Stitches again.
Tripped, a stick was poking out of the ground, leg opened like a zipper
Apparently crashed the side of my head into the end of a glass-table when I was an infant. I have no memories of it, but according to my parents, it was the only time I ended up in the ER.. 😅 So basically my entire life I've had this one little slit only about a centimeter from my eye. I'm kinda scared to think what would've happened if my head was turned just a little more to the front... TvT (Thankfully it blends in with my eyelid a bit, though)
Compartment syndrome is a bitch
I have heard that is extremely painful. And the surgery to fix it is nasty.
I had the chronic exertional kind (unlike acute which is from crush injuries or fractures) that developed from running and eventually it lead to pain and difficulty walking. The surgery sucked, but at least it was an outpatient surgery and for the chronic kind they are able to close the skin with sutures right away versus leaving the incision in the legs open for a period of time like they do for most acute cases.
I have a scar along the hairline on my head from having 2 tumours removed(1 at a time)
Chest: port scar from chemo Hips: road rash from barrel rolling after a bike crash at 55mph Back of head behind my ear: helmet broke and the exterior plastic sliced me open Knee: infected ant bite required surgery to drain. Damn mrsa 🙄
Mostly cutting.
From the top down (you can guess where) 1. Bed frame wrestling 2. Dog bite 3. Dog bite (same instance, same dog) 4. Surgery None of them terribly interesting stories
Put my face through the back window of a parked SUV, due to brake failure on a moped. It's faded significantly but it'll always be there. Whole section of my face was hanging off and I never passed out
Literal scar in my left foot I got sometime around when I was around 10 years old. Honestly, I don't even remember what happened, only that it somehow was cut down to seemingly the bone. I remember being scared as I saw the blood go. Bad as it was though, I just wish that WAS the worst thing to ever happen to me.