Scarred life

1. Born 1954 -- Libra
2. Hip was scared by scalding water soaking my diaper. The scar has softened in the past 53 years, but it is still quite noticeable.
   
3. A weed stub went through my left foot and poked out the top (I was less than 4)
4. I was hit in the head with a steel can when Bonnie and I were playing by throwing cans over the roof of the shed at each other.
5. I fell off a barbed wire fence and tore my abdominal skin (~5) and the scar is about 4 inches long
6. I cut myself with a pocket knife when I was cutting a piece of hose (about 10) I could see the inner workings of my left hand. I have a scar that is 2 inches long in my left palm by my thumb. (about 11)
   
7. I was burned on the left arm by a plastic drip from a hot patch job (about 11)

   

8. I broke my front teeth when I crashed my bicycle into the foundation of the new church in Manassa when the board slipped off the edge. (~9)
   
9. I was kicked in the head by a horse when I was 10
10. I have a scar at the top of my left sock that was caused by a misguided hatchet swing. We were at the Mogote campground when this happened. My mother took me to Antonito for some stitches. The scar is 5 inches long. It was neat to see the fat cells, the muscle, and the skin layers.
    
11. I helped clean trash at the church and when emptying the pickup at the dump I ran a pitchfork tine through my foot. There is a small round scar on my right foot big toe. The tine went in on the top left and exited on the bottom right.
12. I have numerous scars on my knuckles from doing mechanic work as a youth. I learned over time how to push using my palm instead of wrapping my fingers around a wrench. (there may have been a couple scars initiated by fighting)
13. The scar on my nose between my eyes is from my football helmet in High School. When I would hit someone with my helmet I would have a bloody spot on the bridge of my nose.
    
14. My left hand has a ring of scars around my thumb and pointer finger where I used to use a hammer to hit a chisel. I would miss occasionally and hit my left hand.
15. I have a circular segment scar on my right hand middle and ring fingers. I don't remember the details of how it happened, but I believe it was a burn from a hot pipe.

    

16. I have a scar under my right eye that is at the edge of my eye socket along the bony ridge where I dropped a driveshaft from a truck when I was trying to remove it. It hit right on the bone and left a quarter moon scar about 2 inches long.
    
17. When I was in High School I was in an automobile accident. I broke all the ribs on the right side and had a cut under my chin. I was unconscious for a bit and when I woke there was a young woman tearing her blouse to make a compress to hold on my wound. I have a scar under my chin where the cut was. It is covered by beard now.
    
18. I have a small round hole on my left foot between the bones that hold the little toe and the little piggy that had none. The scar was left by a 22 pistol that fell on my foot and discharged.

    

19. I cut the back of my hand when I was working in college and could see all the tendons and bones. The scar is about 3/4" long.
20. One thing I had that did not leave a scar was housemaids knee. My left knee had swollen to the size of a grapefruit because if filled with liquid. The doctor drained it a couple times. It was caused by kneeling on a hard floor.
21. I am not sure if I have a scar, but one day when I worked at the furniture factory in Provo I was moving between two carts of wood and acquired a 4" long sliver in my gluteus-maximus. I went home to have Jeanette extract it for me. It hurt to have it extracted.
    
22. The grand-daddy of them all is my scar on my right shin. I went water skiing with people from work and had the skin scraped from my shin by the alternator on the boat. I had to have a skin graft. The scar where the skin for the graft was taken is a big rectangle 3" by 5" on my forward right thigh. When I bump the scar on my shin I can't really feel it unless the blood drips on the tissue below.