Tweak Today: Take a picture of a scar and tell it's story.

From raychild at Mar 29, 2009 22:46

raychild — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:46:44 -0700

It's a little hard to see, but when I was four or so, we had put some dry ice in a pop bottle and my sister convinced me I should tap it against the ground to make something happen. That's when it blew up.

The scar's pretty much gone now, but I used it for years to induce guilt.

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From slonermike at Mar 29, 2009 23:38

slonermike — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:38:49 -0700

When I was a junior in high school, we loaded up a car with water balloons and drove by the park where the middle school kids were having their annual "school's out" shaving cream fight. After throwing balloons out the car window, on the third trip around the block, someone threw a shaving cream can at the car, and it went in the window. The bottom of the can hit me in the side of the head. Realizing a few hours later that I needed stitches, I drove myself to the hospital, where a nurse (the mother of a girl on whom I once had a crush) stitched me back up.

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From amytheallen at Mar 30, 2009 00:51

amytheallen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:51:40 -0700

This is a scar from a car accident almost a year ago. One rainy Sunday morning I was driving down the interstate and I hydro-planed, then my car spun around, hit the median and flipped over on the drivers side. My window broke, arm hit the pavement and I had some serious "road rash". I never saw it, but everyone said it looked like hamburger meat. So, I ended up having surgery on it. Basically they stretched my skin together over it so I wouldn't need a skin graft. First pic is like a week after the fact, second pic is the day I got my stitches out, and the third pic is today! Luckily, this was my only injury.

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From mlmassey at Mar 30, 2009 01:17

mlmassey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:17:03 -0700

Emergency appendectomy April 2006.

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From nicolebliss at Mar 30, 2009 02:07

nicolebliss — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:07:57 -0700

Superficial scar. I got a belly button piercing at 19 (i know).
Less than 2 months later I took it out b/c it got infected by being constantly covered in my lifeguard suit. It's very tiny, but has manged to be the only scar that's lasted through the years. It bothers me so.

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From penny at Mar 30, 2009 02:32

penny — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:32:37 -0700

My sister and I used to play a game called "Pebbles and Bam Bam". (We would run around the kitchen and pretend we were children of cavemen). My sister wanted to be Pebbles and I already called it... so she pushed me into counter and the rest is history.

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From ericac at Mar 30, 2009 03:06

ericac — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:06:14 -0700

Around the age of 16 was running back and fourth from my car while it poured down rain carrying things inside. Well on the last run I actually shut the door and hit my face right above my eye with the corner of the car door. No one was home so I just sort of moved the skin back into place when it stopped bleeding. It's barely noticeable now but it was pretty gross at the time.

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From rozie at Mar 30, 2009 04:44

rozie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:44:58 -0700

Right around my knuckle is a C shaped scar from an Xacto knife. I was trying to reset a violin neck on it's body, being real smart and holding the knife when applying pressure. The neck slipped and I cut my finger pretty deeply... luckily the joint didn't need surgery and healed after a month, and doesn't have any pain anymore. It's the kind of war wound I like and I'm sad that the scar is fading.

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From adamthehawk at Mar 30, 2009 06:08

adamthehawk — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:08:23 -0700

When I was five, I was watching The Wizard of Oz in the preschool at church, while my mom was waxing the floors in the basement. Something amazing happened in the movie, I'm sure, and I ran to tell my mom about it. My depth perception must have been off. My head and the latch strike plate on the door frame collided, leaving me screaming on the floor with a gash in the side of my head, which Dr Cipolla stitched up later that night.

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From ruben at Mar 30, 2009 06:19

ruben — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:19:11 -0700

kind of bizar, but this was actually the neighbour-lady (a friend of my parents') driving her nail into my hand/thumb, I don't remember the exact story but it wasn't anything serious, bled like a motherfucker though. up to this day there's still this light-colored piece of scar-tissue in the shape of her nail on the back of my hand.

..should've probably taken this photo in daylight, it's hardly visible on this one.

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From bill at Mar 30, 2009 06:19

bill — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:19:35 -0700

I got this scar by attempting to remove the back of my watch with a steak knife in 2004. The knife slipped and gouged my thumb. I lost sensitivity around the wound for a couple months, but it has all returned. The greyish spot to the right of the scar is pencil lead that's been there longer than I can remember.

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From fedlarm at Mar 30, 2009 06:39

fedlarm — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:39:32 -0700

A skateboard accident.. Late afternoon mist and a vert ramp was clearly not a good combi :)
"Show me the trick one more time", my cousin said, "and then i'll give it a go". "Sure", i said. It was late and we were talking about going home, because it was getting darker, and colder. Today my cousin is no longer able to skate because of a knee injury (caused by skateing). We have broken a few bones from skateboarding together from pushing eachother a bit to hard.

Still enjoy skateing though and guess you just have to know your limits.

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From missspeed at Mar 30, 2009 07:43

missspeed — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:43:54 -0700

I caught a zombie virus and they had to quarantine me for a week and cut my face open with a knife. Now I'm back to normal (Cori said I should post a photo to prove it) but you can still see little knife marks near my eyebrow.

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From chrissf at Mar 30, 2009 07:52

chrissf — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:52:11 -0700

A pillow fight scar.

As a 5th grader I was at a church "lock-in." It was for grades 5-8. Us boys decided to sabotage the girls with a pillow fight. I came in swingin' my poly fill pillow but was no match for a post-puberty 8th grade girl with a feather pillow. She sent me flying into the wall/floor transition. It broke a piece of bone off the joint in my right ring finger. After a summer of no swimming, surfing, or pumping up my brand-new super soaker, the cast came off and I've never been in a pillow fight since.

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From tylerg at Mar 30, 2009 09:04

tylerg — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:04:39 -0700

26 years of this suburban life have barely blemished my soft skin, and scars of the soul don't photograph well. This is my one visible scar--I biked into a door and the doctor had to insert a pin into my scaphoid. Thanks to Bill for walking me home in my vicodin stupor.

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From anaxolotl at Mar 30, 2009 09:06

anaxolotl — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:06:07 -0700

I actually had trouble deciding which scar to post (heal fast, scar easily). These are the result of punching something i shouldnt have while in college. i broke the fourth and fifth metacarple in half and after a month of lettin them "set" the doctor realized they didn't "set". So, the drilled two little holes in the top of my knuckles and shoved steel pins down the middle of the bone. The removal of the pins left these little shiney spots

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From csasser at Mar 30, 2009 09:59

csasser — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:59:48 -0700

Moral of this story. Moles can be cancerous. So was the one that used to be on my leg. It's gone now, and I have this scar as a lovely reminder.

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From krylon64 at Mar 30, 2009 10:46

krylon64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:46:07 -0700

My left hand. Details in the notes.

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From autoawesomeon at Mar 30, 2009 10:52

autoawesomeon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:52:06 -0700

That red dot has been on my hand ever since my kindergarten case of the chicken pox. It is the pock that wouldn't go away.

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From nahcnivek at Mar 30, 2009 11:26

nahcnivek — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:26:08 -0700

This is the biggest (and one of the oldest) scars on me. I got it when I was 3: I fell on my driveway in Malaysia, chasing a funeral truck passing by. I love creeping people out with that story, but in all honesty, funeral trucks are more like noisy parade floats there, colorfully decorated and full of drums, horns and gongs trying to scare away evil spirits - the next best thing to an ice cream truck!

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From makethislovehurt at Mar 30, 2009 12:33

makethislovehurt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:33:27 -0700

i was 15 and visiting my brother for the summer in riverside, ca and one day i was home alone trying to fix my computer with it on my lap. i got up suddenly and felt a little scratch. i didn't notice blood pouring out of my leg until my brother's dog started sniffing my leg. my brother got home and asked what happened, i told him it was just a cut so i showed it to him. needless to say he rushed me to the emergency room because it was a gaping hole that i thought was nothing. only four stitches and sometimes it looks like a guitar head :)

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From cabcruz at Mar 30, 2009 13:12

cabcruz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:12:54 -0700

in red_a fall of about two meters high after a 25 km hike. I slipped in a stone and fell on my neck...could have died or something, but ended up with some tiny marks on my legs and back...fortunately!!!
in green_mosquito bites I just can´t keep my hands off...

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From lynnemaria at Mar 30, 2009 14:00

lynnemaria — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:00:37 -0700

Its very interesting to me that this is such a popular mission~ ;-)

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From okrocksteady at Mar 30, 2009 14:06

okrocksteady — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:06:07 -0700

i got this scar when i was in elementary school playing on the monkey bars. i slipped at one point and caught the side of my hand on a screw that was sticking out. i still remember it clear as day because i could still see the blue in my veins under the open skin!

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From flight404 at Mar 30, 2009 14:42

flight404 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:42:32 -0700

This palm scar is the result of being stupid. I got, of all things, an orange juice straw (plastic, and you stick it into the orange itself and kinda mush out the goodness) stuck on my thumb. 5 minutes later, I am standing in front of the sink with a one inch gash in one hand and an exacto blade in the other. I chose not to tell my mother. We went bowling that evening. I tried to bowl with a clutched fist for my freehand. My mom noticed.

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From lesamonster at Mar 30, 2009 14:56

lesamonster — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:56:09 -0700

Wowee, my legs are white!

I got this scar in 1998 while vacationing with my (now ex) boyfriend in Cancun Mexico. We went horseback riding along the beach and my legs were eaten alive by mosquitoes. I had huge welts on my legs for at least a week afterward.
I'm convinced there are baby mosquito or Mexican spider eggs in my leg that have never hatched.

I hate this scar. It's a forever reminder of that ex-boyfriend.
I rarely wear shorts because of it... hence the paleness.

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From softarchitecture at Mar 30, 2009 15:20

softarchitecture — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:20:52 -0700

i hurt my knee

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From arthursoares at Mar 30, 2009 15:54

arthursoares — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:54:12 -0700

Cat-scratch-disease. :(

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From icyfrance at Mar 30, 2009 16:16

icyfrance — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:16:07 -0700

When I was younger I had a few piercings. All of them scared, including the one that was around my eyebrow.

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From knuffellutje at Mar 31, 2009 04:24

knuffellutje — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:24:28 -0700

Hit my head when I was 8 or 9 years old. I didn't notice it until blood started dripping down my face. I must've scared the hell out of my mother when I walked into school looking for her with my face covered in blood. All I have left of it now is that little scar, a little crack all the way down to my eyebrow (not visible) and this lovely story of it.

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From mgatti at Apr 02, 2009 03:58

mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:58:10 -0700

Here's two forehead scars from two different incidents; not sure which story goes with which scar. One is from a shopping cart (sister hanging off one side, me off the other; sister gets off without telling me; shopping cart turns over straight onto my forehead) and the other is from a chimney liner (we used them as coffee tables in our living room when I was a kid; I was hiding behind the drapes from my sister; when I blindly ran out to scare her I plowed headfirst into the edge.)

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From beckanee at Apr 02, 2009 10:48

beckanee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:48:10 -0700

When I was two, a soup can fell out of the cupboard onto my poor forehead.

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From thedigitalghost at Apr 19, 2009 09:19

thedigitalghost — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:19:07 -0700

When I was 6, my older cousin was picking on me. In a fit of rage I tried to take him out. He moved and my shattered the pedestal sink. The scar is on the thumb of my left hand.

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From hub-ba at Apr 25, 2009 04:35

hub-ba — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:35:06 -0700

Competing in an Air Guitar contest, I shattered my knee cap, landing an awesome jump during the guitar solo,( Black Sabbath, song Paranoid ), I took second !

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From cupcakeqween at Apr 29, 2009 14:33

cupcakeqween — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:19 -0700

My first scratching/fist fight in 4th Grade... Alexis with the jagged nails scratched me before I slammed her head in the drinking fountain...memories of the 90's...

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From merendis at May 02, 2009 20:59

merendis — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:59:15 -0700

I'm encouraged by all the colour manipulation it took to get this really visible.
In 7th grade I had a sinus infection that went behind my eye (periorbital cellulitis). If you chopped a baseball in half an stuck it on top of your eye you'd have an idea of the inflammation. The scar is the result of the second of three surgeries in one month to prevent the infection from eating my brain.
I suffered no vision damage.

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From noiselesspenguin at May 11, 2009 00:32

noiselesspenguin — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:32:40 -0700

The 'cheese' scar. When a flatmate moved out, I discovered that she'd left nice cheddar cheese behind. Well. Cheese. NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM. Completely overcome with cheese desire, I held the cheese in my left hand and chopped off a chunk with a knife. The knife slipped and cut the web of skin between my thumb and first finger. I bled copiously all over the cheese.

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From tastybaby at May 12, 2009 16:30

tastybaby — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:30:29 -0700

i was hopping a fence and i got caught on barbed wire, theres a huge bump i think its scar tissue...

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From cupcakeninjacxc at May 14, 2009 12:34

cupcakeninjacxc — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:34:06 -0700

Knife fight with my sister when we were 9 and 11.

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From dean72 at May 22, 2009 15:29

dean72 — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:29:44 -0700

Don't really have any impressive scars. This small scar on my finger is the result of melting some polyester cord and a bit of it dripped onto me when I was about 15.