I cut the tip off my thumb trying to slice cheese w. a Swiss Army Knife while in a moving car. I was very, very hungover.

Hmm:

Age 3: cut up my face "shaving" with my dad's razor. Unknown number of stitches.

Age 4: to the ER after painting myself all over the body to look like a Dalmatian. (No scars from this, just too good not to tell.

Age 4: flipped the Big Wheel, 9 stitches in back of head

Age 13: tripped on a hill, hit sidewalk with face

Age 14: rode bike down hill, hit pothole, landed on chin (9 stitches)

Age 18: climbing Dunn's River Falls, step on glass, slice foot open across the [foot equivalent of the] palm. Still get random pain/itchiness across the scar.

Age 19: condemned pier collapsed under me, 30 some stitches, able to touch skull. Went to Guatemala 3 days later and had to use bottled water to wash my face or hair.

Age 21: gesturing with knife in hand, stabbed self in calf. No stitches but still have the scar.

Age 38: dropped chef's knife, stabbed through nail into big toe.

I think that's all? Possibly I'm forgetting some. Mostly I'm just glad that my destructive impluses have moved from my head and face to my legs.

I DO have a scar from a stingray strike...so that's more exotic.

Ooh, I forgot! Age 1: stung by jellyfish.

Gud, her name wasn't Diane, was it?

Nope, Lara. No snowbank crashing either. As a passenger, I was involved in a crash into a big hedge. I'm not sure exactly how it happened, the driver said "Watch This" and the next thing I knew the view from every window was the inside of a bush.

no big scars.
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on the outside.

runs away crying.

Scars:

• Slipped in bathtub, age 3, split bottom lip
• Playing on ice at recess, age 8, split top lip, 4 stitches
• Burn on arm (Mother was getting hot dogs out of water and accidently sloshed me.)
• Small scars on arms from pinching (mean sister)
• Pencil lead in palm (I was trying to get someone's attention by tapping on her desk with a pencil. The point was toward my palm.)
• Two knife scars on left forefinger (One from slipping while making a bow and arrow at about 11, one cutting meat during a traumatic Christmas)
• Burn on top of foot (sister dropped a sparkler on it)
• Scar on palm from umbrella catch
• Long scar on leg from golf cart accident (I was a passenger. My leg ran into a guy wire.)
• Foot surgery
• Scars on back of left hand, upper lip and forehead; two broken front teeth (Really spectacular trip and fall)
• Scar on palm from wine bottle that split into two pieces when I was taking out the cork, 8 stitches
• Scar on back of right hand from compound fracture (mistimed block of a front kick)
• Two knee surgeries
• Surgical scar from armpit to armpit
• Currently healing: cut off end of middle finger on left hand

Electric shock from alfredo sauce.

This wins for the sheer WTFery of it.

And falling through a condemned pier wins for the picturesqueness of it.

Oh, I did slice my palm open while cutting carrots. While away at Girl Scout camp. That scar has faded quite a bit, and scores pretty high on the stupidity index.

All my scars that have any kind of story attached seem to have faded. I have the burn on my thumb from Friday (taking brea dout of the oven while talking on the phone). And a couple of old popcorn-related scars, but they are much less noticeable than they used to be.

Holy moley!

Turns out I'm not half as accident prone as I thought.

I counted up my injuries and surgeries, but came up with only 6, three of which didn't even leave scars!

eta: Oh right! Adding being thrown 4 feet against a fence by an electric shock from a pool filter thingy. Being attacked by Nubian goats (they are organized, don't turn your back on them!). And falling about 15 feet off a boat, onto concrete.

But none of them left actual scars.

etaa: Second degree burn...still no scar.

The very worst of all these? No lie, the stingray strike. Worst pain I have ever felt, or even hope to. Goose flesh just thinking about it, some 15 years later!

I don't think bubblewrap is going to be enough for you, Ginger.

The first step will to be to remove everything sharp or hot from your house.