A have scar under my lip from falling as a wee child.
I had my rib broken and then it stuck into my left kidney. Had half of the kidney removed with a BIG (2 1/2 fingers wide) zipper scar still going up my left side at least 10 inches. Happened on a county carnival ride. I turned 11 in the hospital.(Over a thousand stitches)
Had arthroscopic surgery on my left knee b/c of torn carlidge playing cutthroat hockey.(Jr. High School)
Fr. Year @ OSU my right arm when through a plate glass window. Severed my ulnar nerve and six tendons(all 5 five fingers and the wrist). Lost a lot of blood(5 pints?), whatever it ws the doctor said that I would have been dead in another five minutes if they hadn't got to me when they did. I'm sure it didn't help trying tequila for the first time and then after the accident your roomate (who was known as "Meltdown") took me to the campus dentistry instead of the campus ER. However, he did save my life. The feeling and mobility are back in my thumb and first two fingeres but the last two are pretty numb and semi-mobile. At least I don't have a claw b/c I would not let anything stop me from playing the bass (especially that I had people saying I was pretty good by that time, LOL). Damaged nerves take a month to grow back one
inch. My scar was 14 inches(over 600 stitches). The scar is a Z-Plasty which zig-zags from mid arm up just past the elbow.
At about 24 some people tried to carjack me. I tried running one of them over and got away, NOT. They ended up catching up with me and smashed in my window. I got pistol whipped until almost my left eye was looking like it might come out (so I was told). Have some scars from that but thay just give me character.
In 2000, I slipped and broke my ankle and tibia (three breakes in all) and tied a tendon up around some bone in my ankle. Received nine screws and a six-inch plate, in the first operation. In the 2nd operation everything was readjusted b/c of potential future arthritic problems. Five months on crutches before any weight bearing. Range of Motion sucks and I'll never run again (or walk w/o a limp or anything involving prolonged use of my ankle). To be continued...
In 2003, I turned yellow. My liver was enlarged (hepititas) and right kidney failed (renal failure). Woke up to friends and loved ones and got read my Last Rites. The highest the Bilyrubin enzyme in your liver should be is 3.0 %. Mine was 22.0 %. I went from that to possible hospice to possible transplant to possible scarring to possible cirrhosis but eventually, I got better (8 months later). But man I'm tired of typing and that is a whole different story (but anyone can always write me for what I would say was a mental and spiritual process,
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Upon recovering from that and learning to walk again for third time in my life, my foot was making funny noises. One of the titanium screws had broken at sometime and I am now completly bone-on-bone arthritic. (I have pix from the third operation where there is absolutely no cartlidge left) Oh, each operation goes over the same scar tissue which goes about 2/3 up my leg from my ankle. I wear a plastic AFO which basically helps stabilize the ankle. I'm on a waiting list for a type of ankle replacement that hasn't been approved by the FDA yet. (I don't want to get it fused) So I'm usually in pain but can't take narcotics for fear of addiction and blah, blah, blah. I need to go. I 've got some other scars from from minor back(not spine) surgeries and shit but I've obviously made for some interesting reading
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