Last Saturday I cut my hand changing the brakes on a golf cart. They were standard PITA hub brakes. While trying to get a spring back on I nearly chopped the top off the knuckle on my middle finger. It was pretty nasty, had grease/dirt in it. Like a big flap of skin cut open. It didn't hurt that bad but I was worried about typing. If I can't use a keyboard I can't work. Anyway it probably could have used a coupule stitches but I just used some of those Band-aid butterfly deals and kept it clean. A week later it has grown back together. Its all flakey and itchy but healed up pretty nice.

Any scar stories?

Back when I was driving a truck, I was delivering to Hunts Point, NY. At the time (I haven't been there in years & they might have changed by now), Hunts Point was surrounded by a big wall with a gate. (This was for a good reason. ) If you made it there while there was still room to park inside, you were fine. If not, you had to park outside the fence until morning. I got there late one night and had to park outside. In the wee hours of the morning, I had to step out and pee. I was just getting done when someone behind me asked for my wallet (very nicely, I might add). I turned around and ended up with a fairly large knife in the back of my forearm. (Bayonet size, not machete size.) The perp kindly retrieved his pig sticker and wandered off while I stood there, bled like a hog and attempted to climb back in my truck. I wrapped a couple clean shop rags around it and went on about my business. When I stopped the next day to shower, I cleaned it as well as I could and wrapped it in an ACE bandage. It didn't heal as cleanly as it would have if I had gotten stitches, but it's not terribly noticable these days. I happen to be a bit of a p*$$y when it comes to that sort of stuff. My ex father in law (Dan) isn't....

Dan was working on a car many (like 20?) years ago when he got his finger caught between a car door and a wall (as the car was rolling back out of the garage). It took off his finger. Dan just stuck what remained of his finger in a tub of grease to stop the bleeding and went on about his business. I think his wife ended up making him go to the doctor later, but he finished his work before he even told anybody. Now, that's manly!!! (FWIW--I would have been on the floor crying. )

ha! Hunts Point: We don't even go in there anymore. last driver i had who went in there had some OSD refused product from a wal-mart. Load of grapes if I recall. Somethings just aren't worth the money.

When I was a wee-one(like 5 or 6) I thought it would be a good idea to play around and jump on a glass table. Needless to say, I went through the table and all three tiers of glass on it. Cut me real good everywhere. We were poor as hell so instead of taking me to a hospital, my mom just used a lot of butterfly bandaids.. Cute, huh? One of my earlier memories. Gotta love it.

quote Originally posted by N3M3S1S: When I was a wee-one(like 5 or 6) I thought it would be a good idea to play around and jump on a glass table. Needless to say, I went through the table and all three tiers of glass on it. Cut me real good everywhere. We were poor as hell so instead of taking me to a hospital, my mom just used a lot of butterfly bandaids.. Cute, huh? One of my earlier memories. Gotta love it.

That explains your facial scar.

quote Originally posted by sostock: Any scar stories?

Ha. I could write a book.

I had a big toe go through the main sprocket and chain of a bicycle when I was younger. I can't even describe what it looks like now.
I had my eyelid cut off in high school- nothing to see here, move along
I had my hand smashed in a car door, several times, when I was 10. It looked like roast beef for awhile. Didn't scar but I don't even want to remember that.
I dropped a CV axle from a Jaguar on my big toe- no steel toe boots and happened to be the same one that was cut off- see above- talk about a spot of pain there, holy s**t. No physical scars...
And finally- I took an axe to the head. Apparently they were just plaining around and didn't see me coming around the corner- just a few stitches and a new *dip* in the skull, scar looked pretty cool when my head was shaved.

A few more here:
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THAT HURT!!!!!!
Nick

At tech, my instructor for auto transmissions was demonstrating to the class how a special tool that help the bottom gear train for a th400 worked. I cant remember exactly how it works and honestly we dont even use that tool in the field, but it grabbed on to the front half of the output shaft and then you can drop the whole assembly into the case. Well he picks that gear train up about level with his head. It probably weighed a good 30lbs. Just proudly displaying how this tool works, then the tool lets go and drops that whole gear set right on his big toe! I thought i heard bone being crushed! Mind you the back half of the out put shaft is maybe 1.5" in diameter, so thats 30lbs concentrated to that small area making a dead impact on a big toe. Needless to say, class was called for the night, he didnt walk right for almost the rest of the semester.

I guess I'm lucky. Played football all through jr and high school. Torn out ligiments in both knees, sprang ankles, etc. But have never broken a bone. Rode a motorcycle through a barbed wire fence, stabbed myself in the hand, got cut by a metal band on a container, punched in the face and thrown down a flight of stairs by a bouncer, nearly dronwed a few times, bit by a dog several times.

Eh, if it don't kill ya makes ya stronger right?

That's what THEY say anyway!

I was pouring grain into an auger once. Shirt got caught and I did a half spin double-take and I was standing there with no shirt! From then on I wore nice tight t-shirts and always watched what i was doing as opposed to how fast I could to it.

quote Originally posted by sostock: Eh, if it don't kill ya makes ya stronger right?

It'd be nice without all the pain associated with it, I'll tell you that right now!

edit: see avatar- worst. pain. ever. And I can't stop, it's like sticking your tongue on a 9 volt battery.

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quote Originally posted by FormulaGT: That's what THEY say anyway!

They do say a lot don't they?

When I was a kid, my older brother hit me in the head with a brick. Seriously, it was an accident. I was standing at the top of the ladder watching my dad finish the chimney and he needed half a brick. Brother tossed it up to him, he missed and my head stopped it. I was knocked out cold and dad caught me by my shirt before I fell to the ground.

Most recently, I had a pocket knife close on my finger. Very deep cut and it needed stitches, but I did not have the time to sit for hours in the ER. So, I super-glued my finger back together. I can't even find the scar now.

use lots of vitamin E oil and compress it with something like rubber..

Its what the doctors had me do when i had ligament surgery in my right hand, almost no scar at all. I would spread the E all over it and stick this little disk made out of rubber on it, then clamp it down over night with a elastic glove. Did that for weeks and weeks while it healed. Didn't wear it during the day much ( like i was supposed to ), or at all during therapy.

Back in the early 90's I wore hard contact lenses. Was supposed to help my poor eye sight from getting worse. I got a speck of dirt stuck between the lens and my eye and it hurt like a SOB! I played the game, cause heck who wants to hear about a guy crying about a contact? One of the most painful things I ever went through.

BTW right guard! nobody touched my QB!

A smashed finger-2005. Same finger that had the end cut off, then reattached several years before I smashed it. Still sore today.

Can I call you Mr Purple Finger now? My mom wrecked at go-kart when she was a kid. Cut off her thumb and they could not sew it back on. She has had a lot fun with it over the years. She used to tell little kids that if they sucked their thumb it would just pop off one day. Also told kids that it got caught in a car door, esculator, car window, monkey bite it off, etc. Mom is a jr high science teacher so she's always thinking of ways to mess with the kids.

quote Originally posted by sostock: Can I call you Mr Purple Finger now? My mom wrecked at go-kart when she was a kid. Cut off her thumb and they could not sew it back on. She has had a lot fun with it over the years. She used to tell little kids that if they sucked their thumb it would just pop off one day. Also told kids that it got caught in a car door, esculator, car window, monkey bite it off, etc. Mom is a jr high science teacher so she's always thinking of ways to mess with the kids.

Dude! I swear, I don't even know your mom!

quote Originally posted by Cooter: When I was a kid, my older brother hit me in the head with a brick. Seriously, it was an accident.

Sure, it was. We believe you. Really, we do. (Your brother was standing behind you when you posted that, wasn't he?)

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How long before someone in this thread starts singing.........."Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladys"...

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only a few myself, one one my face, tire changer accident(long story and longer night invovled), cut my right two fingers pretty bad by a slipping rachet tightening a mower blade(nice scar on middle finger)

scar above my right ear from a surgery when i was little. cut on my hand that needed stitches, porclein toilet piece cut me pretty deep. oh and the face cut was stitched too.

that and i got a scar under my right armpit from a drunk mugger, put him out cold after i got cut.

thats all of mine

Lets see only three major scars that are still visible today.
#1- left forarm: When I was about 7-8 years old we lived on the same 10 acre property as my grandparents and one day we were walking from our house to theirs. And as we walked along between the garden and the barbwire fence that separated one of the pastures. Me and my older sister were fighting about some stupid thing or another as siblings do then she pushed me into the barbwire fence. My left arm from wrist to elbow was cut all up. All my mom did was clean it up wrap it up real good and go on with life.

#2- right wrist: While working at my first job as a stock clerk at Winn Dixie one night I was cutting open cartons of big jars of pickles for a display. The razor knife I was using skipped off one of the jars in the box I was cutting at the time and cut a nice size gash just to the left of a the artery in your wrist. I looked at it went oh s%^t walked up to the office and looked at the woman assistant manager on duty and held up my wrist and very calmly said I think I cut myself pretty bad. She freaked out dumped about half a bottle of peroxide on it wrapped a bunch of gauze on it and sent me to the hospital. It took six stitches to close it.

#3- left shoulder blade: This one is the worst by far. Back in high school while at a school football game was playing grab ass with some friends in a open grassy area around the field. Which happen to be soaking wet since it had just poured rain. One friend runs and hits me with a flying tackle and we both go sliding across the wet ground on my back. When we get up his girlfriend says something about he ripped my shirt. I reach back and sure enough their is a huge rip in the back of my shirt. While reaching back to check it out I feel a long groove in my back that is just a little deeper than the first knuckle on my finger. When I pull my hand back and look at it my hand is coated in blood. I'm standing their looking at my hand and think I might want to seek some medical help. Ended up going to the hospital via ambulance which was ridiculous considering the hospital was about two blocks away. Ended up taking 8-10 staples to close my back up. The odd thing was I never felt any pain from getting cut (we never found out what cut me either) but I did feel pain after they put a local in my back and started putting the staples in. Side note it hurt like hell when the doctor pulled them out later. This left about a 4 inch scar on my back.

I've seen more work related injuries from box cutters than all other causes. A couple of years ago, I worked at a place that daily had over 100 employees, and everyone had and used a boxcutter everyday. In the 7 yrs I was there, I bet there were over 120 injuries that involved going to the doctor.

I have one under my left eyebrow from inventing "pass the frizby" as a kid.
All we had was paint can lids. Taught us not to play till dark.

quote Originally posted by Wolfhound: I have one under my left eyebrow from inventing "pass the frizby" as a kid. All we had was paint can lids. Taught us not to play till dark.

I know you got more than that Coy.

Scars are a good thing, they indicate you survived.
The vietnam - motorcyle list is boring.
After many years of power tools I can still count to 10.
I've been quit lucky.

How times have changed!! Not ONE mention of litigation AH!! The Good ol' Days!! Cut ye'self up preeety good...and show the wounds proudly to yer friends, not some Lawyer!!
Nick

Can you sue yourself for stupidity, Nick?

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Can you sue yourself for stupidity, Nick?

No thank God!

quote Originally posted by fierofetish: How times have changed!! Not ONE mention of litigation AH!! The Good ol' Days!! Cut ye'self up preeety good...and show the wounds proudly to yer friends, not some Lawyer!! Nick

You have a pm--an another to follow--don't log off yet. I may need an answer today.

See 'show it to a lawyer' Mike!! He'll be SURE to find someboy culpable for your injuries!! They always seem to be able to manage it!

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Can you sue yourself for stupidity, Nick?

Don..I have to go out soon...but am interested of course. Shipping would be expensive!!Depends on size I'll be glad to do it just for the pride of having my work there..compensate for shipping costs!!
Nick

I don’t have enough paper or ink or typing time to list them all.

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THANK GOD FOR CRAZY GLUE!

Clean the wound then apply the glue. Good stuff...

1)
I had a glass toped coffee table I made when I was living alone. Made it myself and put a blue print plate for the Venus mane frame computer as the glass top, ¼” plate. Looked nice but a buddy had chipped the edge with a beer bottle one night and didn’t tell me.

Very next night, on the way to bed with this really sexy girl I gashed my leg on it. Wrapped a towel around it and drove to the hospital. Took 18 stitches and one of the few times I went to the emergency ward and didn’t have to wait, they took me right in.

2)
As a kid I was using a hack saw and had my hand a little to close to the blade and cut right into my index finger to the bone. Went up to my mom and she cleaned it up and put a couple of bandages on it. It probably could have used a couple of stitches.

3)
When working at GM we had some interior garnish that was to long, well some were some weren’t so they had me, and others trim the extra off with a utility knife. I was talking to this cute college student we had there for the summer and not paying attention. Buried the utility knifes blade into my for arm. As she watched, she turned white as a ghost and I didn’t feel a thing. So I looked just in time to see a gash in my arm just before the blood started to flow. I could see the muscle. 18 stitches inside on the muscle and 18 on the outside.

4)
Got run over by my first wife while skate boarding behind the car she was driving, in of all places a cemetery. We were skiing so to speak, 3 of us, behind the car on ropes. I swung around to the drivers door to talk to the wife and lost my balance and feel under the tire as she drove past me. Ran right over my left arm. Broke my index finger, and my watch.

Should have known then that she was out to get me.

I got a million of them.

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I had a complete hysterectomy. 25 or 30 staples, and 4 days in the hospital. worst pain ever. morphine didn't touch it.

Jane

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Had my heart broken a few times, took months to heal. Thought I wuz gonna die. Touch an go for a while with the one when I was 18, but finally healed right up.

quote Originally posted by calamityjane: I had a complete hysterectomy. 25 or 30 staples, and 4 days in the hospital. worst pain ever. morphine didn't touch it. Jane

Linda had that done, which I don't quite understand because she never was hysterical. They took out her thyroid the same day.

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: Linda had that done, which I don't quite understand because she never was hysterical. They took out her thyroid the same day.

I was never hysterical either, which just goes to show you how a mans opinion differs with a womans. My dr. was a male.

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hmm...

broken:
both ankles (skateboarding)
both wrists n leg same time (fell off a rope into as parking lot)
shoulder(skateboarding)
coxix- tailbone (jumping over a bush only to notice in midair there was a cement pole in my landing path..)
rib

stitches:
elbow (fell by a creek onto a rock)
head (girl threw a brick at my head)
SHOULD have many other times.. cut my finger half off once.. and just ductaped it as usual.. still scarred.. i used to install carpeting.. those blades are VICIOUS!