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ElfGrove ([personal profile] elfgrove) wrote2009-06-08 07:15 pm

Facial Scars

Mmmm... Pinched nerve -or something- yay. I have an old scar in my right eyebrow. From a water gun fight. That's right, my face is permanently scarred from a water gun battle with my little brother. I was winning up until the point I got that though. XD I think leaving the field with half your face covered in blood makes you the loser even if you were the only one with water left. He ran out of water, I didn't. I kept shooting. He lost his temper and threw his only remaining ammo at me. Water gun meet skull. Head wounds bleed a lot. Cue panicked mother and hospital trip. (Subsequently, this scar is why it's tricky for me to get my eyebrows waxed, if its done wrong, that scar becomes very obvious, because it's a small number of hairs that only barely cover this slash across the lower half of the brow.)

Anyhoo, the old scar gets this pinched feeling sometimes, and any pressure in that vicinity of my head results in very small sharp pains right around the location of the scar. So it's doing that now.
*pokes at scar* It's just a very odd sensation.

Yes, random. I just felt like sharing.

So, anybody else have scars with silly stories behind them?

[identity profile] ichiban-victory.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I wish my own eyebrow scar had a more fun backstory, but it doesn't, but I'm a bit glad and amused someone else shares my troubles with having a scar right there. My scar doesn't hurt (thank goodness), but I have my own trouble with plucking hairs since the scar messed it up, and if I don't it's really obvious that my eyebrow is split in two. (I got my scar by falling off my bike and smashing my face into a rocky road when I was just a kid. I'm glad I don't remember it.)

Question though: Do you have trouble being able to move the scarred eyebrow as much as the normal one? My facial expressions look a bit odd since my scarred eyebrow has a more limited range of movement.
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[personal profile] auriga 2009-06-09 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch! As if regular old headaches weren't bad enough...Although I have to admit that I'm surprised the water gun was sharp and/or hard enough to do that.

I have a little eyebrow scar too, actually, though it's just a tiny pit from when I had chicken pox. My only other scar (no more than a small white dot) was gained from grappling over a dodge ball with somebody else. ^^;

[identity profile] sonya-08.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Does that mean Voldemort is near??

[identity profile] jrula.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
hm.. I chopped of the very tip of my right ring finger while slicing cucumbers once. >.> We needed sliced cucumbers really badly... anyway, I thought it was a minor wound so I went to wrap it up in napkins and sit down, and then my supervisor came and asked me why i was so pale. So it was a bit more serious than I thought.

Then I have a V shaped scar on my forefinger cause this kid was... helping.. me cut some string. So I was holding it, and he missed and cut me instead.... Yeah, accidental? xDD

Hope your scar-ache goes away soon.

[identity profile] pyro-ike.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I have a scar on top of my head from when I was a kid... I was playing chase with the dog (which is to say, being chased) around my parents' four-post bed. I jumped up at the wrong time and hit my head on a sharp corner (why there is a box shape halfway up the post, I'll never know). Lots of blood and a few stitches later, I was more or less alright. :P

Unfortunately I don't think there's a scar from that time a redtail clawed me at the raptor center... Didn't notice until I tried to pull my arm away from the bird's feet, and noticed that the skin was being pulled back down. >_>

[identity profile] coppeliad.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I have a scar on my chin from playing hooky in kindergarten.

For some reason I just didn't want to go to class and I decided to hide in this slide that had a covered portion at the top. But I didn't get in there before the teacher saw me and she chased me up the stairs to the slide. I slipped and bonk my chin real hard and the metal tore it up.

Oh boy did I cry.

[identity profile] asatira.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Not much of a story behind my scars. I've gotten a few small ones from the many animals I work with, most of them abrasions. Although I loved my cousin Alvetta's reaction to my description of how Aspen stepped a little wide, went past the glove and onto my upper arm, but is well-trained enough to immediately release her grip and close on the glove. All I got was a bare indention and a thin abrasion. Alvetta could only shake her head (she's not an animal person, apparently).

And remember, Aspen is a golden eagle.

[identity profile] rara-aves.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, you got a damn schmiss. That totally makes you the winner according to German standards.

Yeah, I got two scars. One from scraping my hand walking through a doorway in highschool, and one from a screen door that closed too fast on my leg when I was jumping in and out of FEMA trailers at my last job... fuck, I got no good stories :(

My scar near my eye

[identity profile] torrinj.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, I don't have any silly stories to share, but I do have a scar.

The one on my face is from a mole I had when I was younger. The doctor thought it might be cancerous. Surgery to remove it and a couple of stitches later and I have a scar near my left eye.

[identity profile] rara-aves.livejournal.com 2009-06-12 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
On the topic of scars, here's a recent one in the news that I don't think anyone can ever be able to top.

German schoolboy survives being struck by meteorite