What Scars do you guys rock and How'd you Get it!?
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#78
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i don't have any photos handy, but I have over 70 staples and over 10" inches of scarrage on my leg from being cut open and having two 13" rods hammered into my bone after breaking my femur
breaking it was the easiest part. Your adrenaline is pumping so hard you go numb, but the sound was freaking LOUD, imagine snapping a baseball bat in half.
The bone broke in half horizontally and because the bottom half slid up next to the top half I had to sit in traction for several days. They drilled a rod through my shin and attached weights to pull the bottom half of the femur back into place. Dudes walked in with toolboxes and sent my family down one floor and to the other end so they wouldn't hear me scream. After the bones aligned they removed the traction and took me to surgery. They hammered two rods into the bone, let the bone heal around them and took them out a year later. the surgeries were awful, especially waking up after having **** pounded into your bone. My leg felt like it weighed a ton and i've never felt such deep pain before. Morphine withdrawl was awful as well, took me weeks before i could even drink water without throwing up after i was discharged.
all in all, pretty ****ty.
breaking it was the easiest part. Your adrenaline is pumping so hard you go numb, but the sound was freaking LOUD, imagine snapping a baseball bat in half.
The bone broke in half horizontally and because the bottom half slid up next to the top half I had to sit in traction for several days. They drilled a rod through my shin and attached weights to pull the bottom half of the femur back into place. Dudes walked in with toolboxes and sent my family down one floor and to the other end so they wouldn't hear me scream. After the bones aligned they removed the traction and took me to surgery. They hammered two rods into the bone, let the bone heal around them and took them out a year later. the surgeries were awful, especially waking up after having **** pounded into your bone. My leg felt like it weighed a ton and i've never felt such deep pain before. Morphine withdrawl was awful as well, took me weeks before i could even drink water without throwing up after i was discharged.
all in all, pretty ****ty.
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It lures
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#80
some new kind of kick
Slipped and fell onto a knife stuck in a log when I was camping out on a timber-cruising job. Wet pine needles and too many beers.
Landed with my hand on the knife--doused it in Jim Beam (only thing handy-- a full day's hike
into the backcountry)--wrapped it up good to go.
Scar's still there--all the way across my palm.
Landed with my hand on the knife--doused it in Jim Beam (only thing handy-- a full day's hike
into the backcountry)--wrapped it up good to go.
Scar's still there--all the way across my palm.
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I have lots of little scars, but nothing to write home about. My sister has like a 7 inch scar on her leg from shattering her leg skiing. She has like 7 Ti rods in there?
my worst scar is on my lower back though. Was white water rafting in WV on a class fiver...this jag intentionally made our 3 man puma spill, making me fall out hitting my back against a sharp rock. That jag was murdered 3 years ago though, and was my bro in laws good friend. So the scar is kind of a funny/fond memory of him. RIP jason.
my worst scar is on my lower back though. Was white water rafting in WV on a class fiver...this jag intentionally made our 3 man puma spill, making me fall out hitting my back against a sharp rock. That jag was murdered 3 years ago though, and was my bro in laws good friend. So the scar is kind of a funny/fond memory of him. RIP jason.
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My front wheel fell off my MTB about 20 years ago; pushed out by one arm of a roller-cam, methinks. About 50 stitches inside and out.
I have another one on my knee from slipping on some wet pavement. While I was getting the stitches the doctor drew a map of a good single track to try out.
I have another one on my knee from slipping on some wet pavement. While I was getting the stitches the doctor drew a map of a good single track to try out.