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[QUOTE=LeftWriteFemme;610018]Give an accounting of your scars ala 'Jaws' style......

While hanging ten, riding a gnarly sidewalk on my skateboard...many moons ago..in my misspent youth, while trying to impress a girl.....my foot stuck to the board when I turned around to say something to said girl...4 fractures and one dislocation of ankle later..I am in an ambulance on way to hospital. That feat garnered me an award I didn't want...surgery to place a screw in ankle to piece it back together. Have you ever had to wear a long leg cast for 9 months in the summer heat of Hawaii....yes, I did!!!
As a little tyke of not quite two, the dreaded croup damn near robbed me of my life...thus a 2 week stay in an oxygen tent with a tracheotomy tube was the fix for that!
Along my ribcage is an impressive 12 inch long scar...yes, I was in the war in Germany, and I gave a beautiful fraulein a chocolate bar...as I was quite smitten with her...well her beau didn't cotton to that none too well...so he charged me with his bayonnet...hence the scar....I took that bayonnet...won me the girl, too...seeing as how I was all cut up...I'm telling you....chicks dig scars!!!!! (disclaimer: THAT sounds better than I faced a surgeon's scalpel for a ruptured gallbladder) I do actually have that scar from the GB rupturing....smiles.....
Now, the piece' de' resistance.....my 30 inch scar down my chest from below breastbone to my pubic line....see I was on a Pirate ship...and those rogue pilfering scoundrels tried to rob me of my bounty....so I stood my stay...and took them on...a pirate just HAS to save hys Rum and jewels and gold, right? one of them purt near cut me in half heightwise with his sword....swashbuckling rogue he was...so had to be patched back up...requiring 30 staples to close me back up...of course, THIS is my most impressive scar to date...and I wield it proudly...the girl thinks it is quite sexy, too...{disclaimer: this, too, is a fantasy tale.. however, I did have 6 hrs of major abd. surg back in December 2011 to remove 18 inches of my colon due to an invasive carcinoma...so this was a blessing to me and I dodged a major bullet. I get scans of chest/abdomen/pelvis and lab work every 3 months to make sure nothing has returned.... I am truly blessed.
So LWF...there ya go..how do you like me now....smiling...