I cut the tip of my finger off when I was 18

I have never broken a bone, tore a ligament, or had any type of surgery.

I am unbreakable

No major physical trauma here as well..knock on wood.

I do have a decent size tatoo of a Dragon (in the Chinese calendar that was the year I was born).

When I was six, I almost drowned.

So, this has become a show me your scars thread, LOL... Where do I start....

When I was 5 I tried to hold the chain link gate shut so that my 7 year old brother could not get in, he had a bike I had my head, guess who lost, woke up 2 days later with stitches in my forehead.....

First grade, my brother and his friend thought it would be neat to see how far they could push one of those park hobby horses, the one on the giant car spring, to the ground with me on top of it, it flipped me into the are about 15' into a wooden post, busted my right eyebrow wide open, about 20 stitches on that one.

and then came 2nd grade, the start of my long life of braces (yep, still got them, behind the teeth) my upper jaw would not grow so they had to break my jaw, wore a plate in the roof of my mouth that kept on spreading it wider.... I had a custom made headgear that had about 6 different bands coming from this plate to the jaws of this chin gear... yep, real pretty, you can imagine the taunts from the other kids... during this time I had my birthday to which someone gave me a 3 foot rubber snake, my brother decided it would be fun to play keep away from me with it, he then cracked it like a whip and caught me in the right eye, to which it split my inner eye wide open, my whole eye turned green because of the internal bleeding.... a skilled eye surgeon in town did some never before seen surgery on me, saved my eye, but to heal they had to blind both my eyes and I had to lay still for one month.... so after that I had to wear a metal eye patch over that eye, those black rimmed safety glasses to protect the other eye, I had the chin strap thing going on, braces from hell.... yep, you thought that I was teased before.... the kids were relentless.... this experience is what developed my character to roll with it and grow some very thick skin.... not much gets to me.

I had my bowels sucked out in the airplane bathroom and now I use them as a scarf.

LOL, L!!

Tats...I have 2. Well one tat and one tattoo regret. I'm about ready to take a wire brush to remove it. On second thought maybe I'l just get it covered up.

11 surgeries and counting...

Lynne

I was never a child.

*checks avi*

Oooops!

Cute avi - TD - is it really you?

Lynne

SD40 - Wire brush....OUCH!!! lol

Thanks, and yes. My hair color has morphed, like 3 times (naturally) since then, so I am unrecognizable. ;o)

I've seen your more recent pictures and I still see some of that little boy. Love the avi!

Lynne