Do you have any scars?
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
March 14, 2012 4:08pm CST
Well, we probably all have a few emotional ones, but do you have any physical scars and what were they from and where are they? I have some on my arms, they have been there for over 20 years, from an accident I had way back then. I have a few tiny ones on my leg and face too, I think, but they're not very noticeable.
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@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
hi there,
yeah i have a lot of scars. especially now that i am having this allergic reaction. i am not totally healed yet and i am sure they are gonna scar real bad 
but for my old scars, there are from chicken pox back when i was very small. i was 1 year and 6 months old only when i had it so maybe i would scratch my skin, they are noticeable too but i am nt bothered by it anymore. i am bothered by how my skin is going to look like after i heal from this skin condition 
but for my old scars, there are from chicken pox back when i was very small. i was 1 year and 6 months old only when i had it so maybe i would scratch my skin, they are noticeable too but i am nt bothered by it anymore. i am bothered by how my skin is going to look like after i heal from this skin condition 
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
17 Mar 12
yeah i was very very young when i had it because i think my sister's had it and since it is contagious.
yeah it is advisable not to expose the child to other people too while it is not totally healed yet because then other children will get it too.
i just want all these allergic reactions to go away already. they are creating very bad scars and i am afraid i can no longer wear shorts and skirts anymore.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
19 Mar 12
It does get to be highly contagious. I'm not sure if I had it first or my brother now. I would have to ask my mother, might she know. Have you seen a doctor for those skin conditions on your legs? I think they have some medications for it. I have eczema, and long ago my mom had psoriasis on her body but it just went away after some years. Unfortunately I seem to get/have what she has in other forms at times.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
16 Mar 12
Wow that is a young baby to have chicken pox, very young. I thin I was 11 when I got it or ten the oldest. I remember it coz my mother sent me to school already with some still on me, and the one kid in class pointed at me and said out loud that I still have them. I felt so embarassed, like my mother didn't take care of me long enough to keep me home til they went away more. I know my mother was anxious to get me back into school but I think a few more days wouldn't have hurt staying home.
@Cranos (273)
• Belgium
15 Mar 12
Aside from some small ones I got when I was a kid, I have a large almost pirate shaped scar on my right forearm. I broke that arm in 3 spots by falling off my bike when I was 15. We were racing and I slipped in the mud. I fell face forward, so I shielded my head with my arm and it broke. The scar itself is from the operation. They had to put a pin and a metal plate with 5 screws in it to make it heal correctly.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Mar 12
OUCH! That sounds so painful, I hope it's fully recovered now, I don't remember breaking anything as a kid, luckily and I'm glad. I'm not even sure what my parents would have done, hopefully take me to the DR., but now i wonder. As they didn't when I should have gotten the stitches.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
14 Mar 12
scars can be like wrinkles they are your earnings of life so to speak, as much as we don't really like them it is our life experiences that gave them to us, some people are not lucky enough to have life experiences to get them...
@mgzg11 (139)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
14 Mar 12
Good point. Scars should be reminder of life experiences we had (or mostly mistakes and accidents). And such occasions are always good to remember, and possibly avoid in future.
Of course, if scar is big and visible, it can be uncomfortable sight, and can cause people to feel not well about it. But today, with modern medicine, some of it can be removed, or at least make less visible.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
14 Mar 12
i was babysitting when i was about 17. it was my best friend's little brother and we decided to go bike riding. i was riding along and i flipped over the handle bars and ended up getting a cut on my forehead that wouldn't stop bleeding. finally, his parents got home and i went to emergency and got 4 or 5 stitches but you can't really see the scar anymore.
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
20 Mar 12
a lot of people said that if you want to learn how to ride the bike, you have to be prepared because you are really going to be hurt and deal with scars. but when i learned, i never got hurt. i would fall too but it wasn't bad. but a long time ago, i was 9, a glass from the window fell on my arm and it cut me real bad because it was deep but it wasn't long. i only had one stitch but it scarred. i am not 25 and the scar is still there
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
23 Mar 12
I don't remember ever getting hurt either, I do have a few minor scars on my knees but i think they are just from falling while running, etc. I don't really recall to be honest. Ouch on the glass window cutting your arm, I'm glad it only needed one stitch!
@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
14 Mar 12
I have a few scars. I have on the bottom of my foot that is a straight line from stepping on glass. I have a few chicken pox scars on my arm and I have a scar from a burn on my wrist.
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
20 Mar 12
whoa, we seem to have the same scars but the problem with my chicken pox scars is that i have them n my face hehehe 
and i have a scar too on my wrist from a burn. but it is not as bad anymore.
and i have a scar too on my wrist from a burn. but it is not as bad anymore.
@jd107nette (1454)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
yup! I do have one and I've had it since I was i think about 11 years old. It's on my right hand. Ive tried all the creams that have claimed to be able to remove it but it didn't really work at all,. Few years back i consider it as a big flaw to me, but i've learned to accept it as time went by ^_^
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Mar 12
It's not a flaw at all, it is just a part of you and we all have them, somewhere from sometime in our lives. I thin it makes us who we are and gives us character, not that it means just to go out and scar yourself on purpose, though. Thats a huge No No.
@yahnee (1243)
• Philippines
14 Mar 12
I don't have any visible scars on any part of my body. I have really taken care of myself all these years. However, my heart contains all the scars which would have been better if they just presented themselves on the arms or legs. Those in the heart never heals. There are lots of over the counter treatments nowadays for the removal of scars but I guess it is only for the minimal kind.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Mar 12
I'm sorry you have them on your heart, that has to be bad. I think if they were on your arms and legs they might have been better, in this case. But of course, none at all is the best thing of all. I hope you are in not a health related danger due to them being on your heart. I think you meant it's an emotional hurt, right?
@mgzg11 (139)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
14 Mar 12
I don't have any visible scars, but on my left hand index-finger, I have 6 or 7 small ones. Ever since I was a kid, I had tendency to cut, bruise or generally hurt that finger. I guess any sharp object used in household and farm tool was at some point cause of some injury on that finger. From knives, axes, saws, hammers to almost anything else, including paper cuts and cuts from hard grass. This finger of mine looks like seasoned warrior. Good thing is that all those scars are small, and not easily visible. Most important thing is that it's not influencing ability to use my finger, all those hurts were mostly flash wounds and cuts not too deep.
@princess051585 (28)
• Australia
14 Mar 12
I have a lot of scars everywhere in my body. The ones I hated most is on my right lower leg. It looks like eyes which I got when I was 7 years old when I fell off the cliff full off garbage while running for my a**hole cousin because he took away my toys.I have it for lifetime now.hayss
@callmeELLE (12)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
I have lots of tiny ones too, I'm an accident-prone gal so I get wounded almost everyday but I have this scar in my left knee that I find so memorable. It is not special or something but it is I think the only scar which I still remember where I got from.
I got it from horsing around with my twin sister. While running the side of my left knee collided on the edge of our motorbike's plate number and it sliced my knee open. Then and there the blood oozed out like a river. I was 7 then and I was shocked, I called my twin to assist me and we were crying because of fear. We couldn't tell our parents then because they would definitely spank our butts off. So what we did was we got to the bathroom and got sheets of tissue paper and applied it to the wounded part with some pressure applied. After some time the blood stopped and eventually we told our mother what happened. Since it was not treated properly it produced some keloid and the scar remained till this time. It's big so it's very obvious.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
15 Mar 12
Wow, yes those childhood scars can be the worst kind too. I bet when we were kids we do remembering those the most. It does not sound so good with the blood, eeek. I might have passed out. I'm sorry you didn't tell anyone sooner and that it wasn't treated properly, I have a scar on my foot that is like that. I should have been taken to the DR for it to be stitched up but instead I hopped around on it for a few days until I was able to walk on it again. I was 12 and walking barefoot outside in the summer when I went past a drain pipe that was sticking out and it got me, accidentally. My parents didn't even look at it much to my recollection, really, they knew it happened, but didn't bring me to the DR, & it was rather icky looking, I never seen such a small cut like that. I won't describe it in detail though...
