I accidentally sliced my wrist open last night

Youch! Glad you missed everything important and don't have to have any surgeries or reconstructions. It's funny how things happen, and I know I've gone into the emergency room a couple of times and had people look at me like I was nuts when I explained what happened! My favorite scar is from when I was younger. I was sneaking out of my house and jumped from my window onto the air conditioning unit. The unit chose that particular time to cut on and fling a piece of mulch up, which really did a number on my inner thigh. That sneaking out attempt ended with a tourniquet, a four hour wait at the ER, and a 6" scar. Not something I'd recommend to friends and family!

BOY! I bet they thought you did it on purpose. Did they stick a shrink in your room to ask you weird questions?

I actually have stitches on my wrist also from putting my hand through a window..(I actually have done this twice, plus had a broken mirror fall and I stupidly put my hand out to catch it.) The worse one was my first encounter putting my arm through a storm door. My sister and I were racing, (I was about 7 and she is 9 years older than I) and since she was older, she obviously won. But when we got to the front door, I right on her tail, had my arms outstretched so that they would reach the door before she did and she opened the door, right into my arm. Not that I would say she did it, she was only opening the door to go inside, but with my arm right there, it went right through the glass. got a bad scar from 12 stitches because they couldn't hold me still. (First time I ever saw that much blood come from me and no one could tell me I wasn't dying..lol) So, it's an ugly scar, but one I have to live with.. Glad to hear you got an ex-plastic surgeon. I wouldn't be surprised if you can even see where you got cut.

Glad you are alright. New information you have provided on tendons in our wrists (arms) that are remnants of a time before. Interesting! I have more scars than I even care to count. But the most prominent of these are.... Cut throat (first husband) Cut throat (surgery) Bullet 1 entry and exit on my throat Bullet 2 entry only on my throat Scar over left eye Scar from split lip Bullet 3 entry only forearm Abdominal navel to forever (twice second time was to fix the first) About 50 scars from stabs and cuts on my forearms (200+ stitches first husband) Big scare left knee (surgery) Several scars both knees (surgery) 5 scars going up my hair line on the right (ex husband again) There are a few smaller ones but those are the big ones.

I cut my finger down to the bone once, which looked pretty cool because it didn't bleed much either and I have a jagged scar from that. I also have a perfectly round scar on my thigh from a long branch that was on fire when I tried to reposition it in the pile after a hurricane. Right before it touch me my husband told me not to mess with it...but it was too late and I got an "I told you so" from that one.

Oh my LORD! I'm glad you're ok! YIKES!!! I have a few scars...my c-section scars (the bittersweet cuts that they are), a few on my wrist from surgery, knee surgery scars, gallbladder out scars and my crowning glory scar, about 10 inches long down the outside of my left lower leg...had a bone tumor removed when I was 17, so I'm missing most of my fibula...another somewhat unnecessary body part... its only used at the knee joint and ankle joint, but the part in between is non-weightbearing...so it doesn't make a darned bit of difference.

Oh my goodness, that's terrible...well even it didn't bleed much it sure must have hurt like hell...how does it feel now? Oh, I have a lovely scar too...This was years and years ago, maybe thirty?? I was trying to separate frozen hamburgers with a really nice, long sharp knife.....oops...slipped and jabbed the knife right into the fleshy part of my left hand and yes it went in pretty deep, but I didn't race to the docs or ER...just did a really good bandage job of it but I still have that lovely scar

Sorry about your accident Galena. OUCH!! I have a scar on my right arm that came from a knife fight when I was a school! Someone tied a blade to the end of a piece of wood and sliced me, he thought that it would be funny!! It's all long ago now and the other boy is a Professor at Oxford!

awww that was a really bad accident. i hate getting some big scars since its tendency was to stitch it up in order to recover from accidents like that. i'm afraid having some stitches on myself so i'm always careful in everything that i did. hope you're doing fine now

Hi, Galena! I am very sorry about your wrist. I have scars on my body, but many of them are invisible. And, I can't really see them. But for the ones that are there, I don't like to see them... I will just use Cocoa Butter to fade the scars that are noticeable. But as the years go by, my scars tend to fade and lighten to a light brown spot. I also have mosquito bite scars. When the mosquito bites me, it will leave behind a scar, even if I don't scratch it. I dislike these little critters, they can be very annoying. I hope that you wrist heals faster and that you will begin to feel better soon. Take care of yourself.

Ah yes, the wrist slash, ancient mark of the Emo clan :D we have a tendon that we used when we walked on all 4, and it's no longer needed any more ? You're pretty well scarred on all sides, I got nothing good yet. Oh wait, I have a fake operation :D I was swimming in a river, holding a stick, and scratched the right side of my abs. Then a week later our parents took us to this super salty water pool (just HUGE amounts of salt, a therapeutic thing) and that scar ended up looking just like surgery :P

Heyyy, I like that picture of your scar. Not that I'm being so insensitive with what you've gone through, it's just that...it looks kind of gruesomely cool. But hey, I'm glad you got really lucky there just missing the major blood vessels. I could just imagine myself stitching myself up with a tailor's needle and thread if that ever happened to me. Just recently I almost totally skinned my left hand middle finger all because I was rushing to thinly slice up a frozen chunk of white meat. Got three stitches for that and two shots of anti-tetanus that cost quite a sum from my pocket money. Tsk. My favorite scars though are the ones I've made on both my forearms. I had a little bit to drink back then, was quite tipsy and had some problems coming around. I grabbed a cutter blade and slashed away. The deepest had to be about a quarter to a half inch in. I bled a lot considering I'm a bleeder. I didn't get them stitched up so they're very evident up until now. Whenever anyone asks about them, I always say "It's a long story" and it surely is. Better take care of that cut. It itches bad when healing. ;)

oooh ouch. Hope its healed up nicely. I was really clumsy growing up and hurt myself all the time. I always managed to get into bike and scooter accidents of the side walks. I've got quite a few scars on my knees from scrapes, but they've gradually faded though the years. I also have two line-scars on my feet from getting laceration-type cuts in those accidents. w

Oh my! That must have been so painful. Still squirming on my seat as I think of it. Just be careful next time. For the scar, you may ask for medication or ointment which you can apply.

OUCH! Please don't do that again, sounds painful. I have loads of scars, but, the best one is one my foot when I stepped on a broken piece of glass, and cut my foot open. The one's on my face were pretty minor, so, not really prominent. I'm glad you're ok.

hi galena glad you did not hit any major blood vessels in your hand. I will have a lovely collection of scars once i get through this horrid shingles. right now its still hurting and itching and I am wondering if I am ever going to get over it. I am so looking forward to no longer hurting that I dont even care if the stuff scars as long as it just quits hurting. lol.

I have a large cesearian scar. The scar cesearian went right on top of a scar I had from a bycycle accidient when I was a kid. I also have a faint scar on my arm from that same accident, I have a scar on my knee from falling as a child. I have a burn mark on my right hand from frying chicken, I turned the chicken and it landed on my hand, I also have a scar on my left hand where a German Sheppard attacked me (luckily that is all I got), I also have a scar on my chest just below my neck, and another scar on my other hand where a puppy bit down on my hand and would not let go, and there are some small burn marks on my arms from camping, and working at fast food restaurants when I was in college.

I have a lot of little scars but no bid ones. The only two I can really name off what happened are the one from having a mole removes ( I should have sued for that one) and one where my best friend took a bottle of pills then bit me when I stuck my finger down her throat. She lived and now I can mess with her about biting me. The rest are just random clumsiness.

I have a collection of scars from boyhood all over my body. Starting from my legs to my hands and on forehead and head. However, your collection seems to be much bigger and wider in all possible senses.

Wow! I'm glad you are okay. I have few scars of my own from various operations i have had including appendix and invesigation in to ectopic pregnancy...Apart from them being the big scars i also have chicken pox scars..