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Wtf happened to you?!? Badass/crazy scar show n tell

I also have had bouts of debilitating pain with no scarring involved. My skeleton was awry after my son's birth, but it was years before I did anything about it and then the chiropractor had to call and practically beg me to make an appointment. He was on my then boyfriend's dart team. It took 1-1/2 years of adjustments and months of physical therapy, but I did end up pain free. Since then I have twisted a hip joint a couple of times that took several months to heal and stop hurting, but I've been very careful the past 5 or so years and have not screwed up anything.

Never had a broken bone or needed stitches from an injury. I have two scars on my left forearm due to a cat and a dog scratch. So, I consider myself very fortunate.
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Siobhan said:
I even did what my family called an "Uncle Blake": Fall out of a tree on Sunday, break an arm, get a cast.
Go to school on Monday, playing on the monkey bars, fall, break the other arm; just as my uncle Blake had done about 17 years earlier. :p
Most of my scars are from rough housing, but 4 head concussions and 11 outta some 16+ broken bones, were almost all tree falls. This little monkey loved those highest skinny branches, and I was never hurt by the falls, but only by the sudden interruption of inertia when the falling stopped.o_O
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Was he known as Uncle Blake when he first did it, or was he known by his younger alias, "fucking Blake." (Usually with a face-palm or eye roll)
 
Here you go. ACL revision reconstruction, 4 days post-op. This was my 3rd ACL repair - 1 on the left and 2 on the right. If you look closely, you can see the scar from the original reconstruction, starting above the horizontal incision and running down through the vertical incision just above the green bruising on my shin.

There isn’t a cool story to go with it. I’m just accident prone. The original ACL ruptured 17 years ago when I was playing tennis. Then last year, I slipped on the stairs, landed hard on one leg, and *pop* went the graft.

 
@Blunderbuss Firozabad-That's so sweet of you to check up on me! I started PT yesterday and will go 3x a week for 8 weeks. I am still not walking or weight-bearing, but I'm working on range of motion and trying to keep the swelling at bay. I'm supposed to start 25% pressure next week and 50% the week after, although I'm not sure how to judge that or how that works. The scar is much better than I expected, but the recovery is taking exceptionally longer than I anticipated...Thank you again for asking.
 
Please keep us posted @bmoore77 .
That was one hell of a serious surgery, with an equally serious recovery and rehab! But you are made of stern stuff, and I know you will do well, and be right as rain before you know it. I'm glad to hear the scar is knitting up smoothly.
I hope you have a nice stack of books nearby, sweet daughter visits, a good view, and the wisdom to not do more than you should too quickly!
 
My worst happened when I was 14. We has some friends who owned a 640 acre ranch. They were having part of it logged, and we were out cutting up some of the leftovers for firewood. I was using a McCulloch chainsaw with a 16" bar. As I was cutting a log into manageable pieces, it hit something in the log and kicked back. The tip of the bar hit me under my chin. The scar goes from my chin to the bottom of my rib cage. 300+ stitches later and they send me home from the hospital. The main reason I wear a beard now is because I hate shaving my chin and neck because of the scars.
 
notchback said:
My worst happened when I was 14. We has some friends who owned a 640 acre ranch. They were having part of it logged, and we were out cutting up some of the leftovers for firewood. I was using a McCulloch chainsaw with a 16" bar. As I was cutting a log into manageable pieces, it hit something in the log and kicked back. The tip of the bar hit me under my chin. The scar goes from my chin to the bottom of my rib cage. 300+ stitches later and they send me home from the hospital. The main reason I wear a beard now is because I hate shaving my chin and neck because of the scars.
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Yikes. You are lucky to be alive.
 
When I broke my toe open it looked gnarly, until the bloody skin either side of the laceration sloughed off. Now I have just a hairline extending from each corner.

I do have a rather interesting remnant of the injury. When the tissue split, it apparently ruptured the nerves that run down each side of the toe. The toe is numb now from the base of the toenail forward.

--Al
 
ghosttruck said:
QT release is when they have to open your tendons because you can't feel your fingers :)
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I've had that done too, left arm and carpal runnel release on both wrists, those scars are not that noticeable, but the QT one is bigger and still bothers me if I lean on that elbow. I need the right one done, but I'm just gonna try to deal with it. This is what you get when retail is your life.
 
cubby said:
I've had that done too, left arm and carpal runnel release on both wrists, those scars are not that noticeable, but the QT one is bigger and still bothers me if I lean on that elbow. I need the right one done, but I'm just gonna try to deal with it. This is what you get when retail is your life.
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I went ahead and did mine when they put the plate in my arm when I broke it. May as well get it all done at once lol
 
I've also had both shoulders done, I don't know what exactly you would call it, since they don't operate or cut on you, they just put you to sleep and put your shoulders thru their range of motion. I have had frozen shoulder 3 times, left one twice. The physical therapy is absolutely horrendously painful. Doesn't leave a scar tho, except mentally. Retail is evil.

I think they call the condition Adhesive Encapsulation of the shoulder joint.
 
One of my other big ones happened when I was 4. I didn't know any better and trusted my sister. She asked me to hold a piece of wood and then she chopped down with the hatchet. She hit my index finger on my right hand. It basically cut the tip mostly off. Luckily, dad was home and he rushed me to the hospital. It was still hanging on a little and they managed to sew it back on. Since then (1969) that fingernail has grown with a split in it.
 
notchback said:
One of my other big ones happened when I was 4. I didn't know any better and trusted my sister. She asked me to hold a piece of wood and then she chopped down with the hatchet. She hit my index finger on my right hand. It basically cut the tip mostly off. Luckily, dad was home and he rushed me to the hospital. It was still hanging on a little and they managed to sew it back on. Since then (1969) that fingernail has grown with a split in it.
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I can't for the world fathom why, but I want to see a picture of the fingernail @notchback .
And wow about the chainsaw incident! That's so frightening
 
Man, that is gnarly, nocthback!

A man we know who is around 55 is having surgery today. He has only one tendon left connected to his bicep, and I can't imagine the pain he must've been in from this. They've gone ahead and put their boat in storage since his recovery time will be 5 months.
 
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