Show us your scars!

[Burnszilla]

Do chicks really dig scars? Show us what you got and how you got it.
Appendectomies welcome.

Broken tibia and fibula while dirt riding, June 2007.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/698054718_7ed4e89082_b.jpg
Today. All better.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2701841827_497903c76c_b.jpg

[KGT1200]

Do chicks really dig scars? Show us what you got and how you got it.
Appendectomies welcome.

Broken tibia and fibula while dirt riding, June 2007.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/698054718_7ed4e89082_b.jpg
Today. All better.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2701841827_497903c76c_b.jpg

Collar bone. Straight out towards my left ear. Got it riding "Layla" my Morgan mare in 1971. she was a real evil bitch who dumped me in mom's tomatoes!

I bought her for $850.00, traded her for two herfords. They tasted real good!

[wsteinborn]

Not a scar - I haven't taken a picture since it healed.

Gunshot wound - the day after it happened, and before
the huge bruise started between the entry and exit wounds. (The doctor
described it as "impressive - no photo though)

All you see is the imprint of my clothes on the skin and 2 holes.

http://www.dustyjacket.com/images/gsw_small.jpg http://www.dustyjacket.com/images/gsw_slug.jpg

[Burnszilla]

Not a scar - I haven't taken a picture since it healed.

Gunshot wound - the day after it happened, and before
the huge bruise started between the entry and exit wounds. (The doctor
described it as "impressive - no photo though)

All you see is the imprint of my clothes on the skin and 2 holes.

Are you a LEO or a gangbanger? We need to hear the full story on this one.

[Bigrider]

His profile says he was a LEO at one time. Still would be an interesting story to hear.

Dave H
San Antonio, TX

[r11rs94]

:nra I cannot show mine, as they are emotional scars... Is this a plea for help?:)

[PAGoldsby]

Right Shoulder:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/DzlBenz/IMG_0284.jpg

Forehead:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/DzlBenz/IMG_0285.jpg

Right Hand:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/DzlBenz/IMG_0288.jpg

Right Ear (the "good" one):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/DzlBenz/Photo_061606_001.jpg

I'm about 33% scar tissue. Killed in a car fire in 1989. I got better.

[GrafikFeat]

:nra I cannot show mime, as they are emotional scars... Is this a plea for help?:)

HAHAHAHA! Ya beat me too it!

Although, this thread is makin' me yearn for beef jerky... :sick :hungover

I'm waiting to see the road rash pictures from all the ATGATT convertees...

[ARValkguy]

Compound fracture left forearm. Bones actually had dirt in the ends of them. It was brutal. I like to say it was from a knife fight, but anyone that knows me just laughs.

[r11rs94]

HAHAHAHA! Ya beat me too it!

Although, this thread is makin' me yearn for beef jerky... :sick :hungover

I'm waiting to see the road rash pictures from all the ATGATT convertees...

I can't wait either, though I still a MOTG-MOTT, Most of the gear - Most of the time.

[SCQTT]

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[Rapid_Roy]

Here ya go!

http://www.trainwhistle.com/images/letterstraincar.jpg


Wait...........oh scars, not s cars. I knew I shoulda read the whole thing.:banghead

[lancew]

Here ya go!

http://www.trainwhistle.com/images/letterstraincar.jpg


Wait...........oh scars, not s cars. I knew I shoulda read the whole thing.:banghead

As the CarTalk guys might say, we need to hire somebody to screen these messages...

Ok, no pics but my list includes-

1) left leg, still have a C-shaped scar about the size of a hockey puck from a dirt-bike/cow pasture/barbed-wire fence encounter on my thirteenth birthday. Got a week off from school for that one.

2) bone graft scars in my left wrist and ring finger - nearly had to have the finger amputated, took 2 surgeries to repair it after my college girlfriend grabbed the finger and twisted it to try and convince me to meet her parents that weekend. There was a small, previously undiscovered cyst in the finger bone that created a weak spot. We discovered the cyst, I didn't have to meet her parents, and for the next many years I told people it happened playing basketball.:blush

3) Broke my clavicle, shoulder blade (3 places), and several ribs in 2002 on the day I discovered that horses can be unpredictable. I also had some vascular damage in my leg from when the s.o.b. stepped on me as he made his getaway. Fortunately, I was wearing a helmet or the rest of it would have probably been moot- I banged my head pretty bad. I don't remember it but my wife says that when the doc asked me if the demerol was helping I replied "I can do better than that in the glove compartment of my pickup."

4) I have a small scar on my right knee from last fall. Every now and then I find a little piece of gravel in it. Considering that my bike was totalled, I count myself lucky, especially when I look how bad the helmet,cortech jacket , gloves, boots, and bike got mangled in the incident.

I hope everyone else's scars heal as well as mine have. Cheers!

[Rapid_Roy]

As the CarTalk guys might say, we need to hire somebody to screen these messages...

As most would say:"oh, it's just Roy."

I have had bad wounds, but no major scars. I just wanted to contribute.
:ha

[moondog]

This was actually my third operation. The first was emergency operation the day of the motorcycle accident because there was no flow of blood to foot. The next was about 6 weeks later to take the external hardware off and put it inside and the third a few months after that to take the internal hardware out. My knee also got screwed up from the force of me hitting the pavement at all of maybe 15 mph or less. the knee is permanently damaged and I am the candidate for a new knee in the future.

My coconut hit the tar also but thank Me I had my helmet on. It is still messed up inside but that is not from the accident.....:p

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/n1hnr94/DSC00003.jpg

[The_Veg]

Got tons of tiny ones from all manner of things, but these are the two that get the most questions.

http://vegomatic.smugmug.com/photos/341549897_AK77X-M.jpg

They are burns from the headers of my first two motorcycles, a 1985 K100RT ("The Brick") and its sucessor, The BatBike.

I'm pretty sure that the one closer to the wrist is from The Brick, but they happend closer to each other in time than the later one happened to now so my memory about which is which is getting fuzzy.
Both were accidental, and both were the type of split-second contacts in which you don't really even feel the heat...yet both did peeling-and-fluidy-thing.
In the case of The Brick, I was working on the bike and dropped a socket which rolled under the bike. I was squatting by the left side, and my arm shot out under th bike to retrieve the socket....and met the header. With The BatBike, I was airing up the front tire...and the valve was to the rear of the wheel...you can guess the rest...
The thing that boggles my mind is that both burns wound up being SO similar in shape, size, and location.
A year and 13K miles on El Chupacabra and so far it hasn't shown any inclination to scar me, with a burn or otherwise. But it's quite early in the game yet.

[Rpbump]

Scars for most of us are reminders of past mishaps, some your fault and some not. My knees, elbows, and feet all have tales to tell. Having scars to carry around at least means you survived and are hopefully wiser. Pretty girls, scenery, bikes are nice to look at, scars are really only meaningful to the one that has them, no pictures needed. Ride Safe

[lazywizard02]

I did the exact same injury except on the front bumper of a police car. I wore the plate for a year and a half and then had it removed. It was partially broken on inspection. That seems to be a fairly normal case. Please be careful for your final healing. I found the best therapy to be swimming and PT at the direction of the head trainer for UT Austin football program. (I was just a student but he directed a PE class for injury recovery). Oh yeah, I also took chelated calcium tablets.

[Timba]

My most impressive scar is from a synovectomy necessitated by an acl repair...

right after surgery, and then a few months later, after a follow-up synovectomy, this time arthroscopic. It shows the lovely keloid healing... :-(

http://timba.smugmug.com/photos/343666501_eb7gx-L.jpg

http://timba.smugmug.com/photos/343666615_Chveq-L.jpg

[35634]

This is a great thread! I thought of doing one on dinged helmets but this
is much more fun. The shoulder is courtesy of a deer that had it in for my K75S (plate and
9 screws) The finger was in an argument with a table saw (it lost)