What scars are you most proud of or most embarrassed by?

I had burns marks. Scars on my skin seem to heal well, but not burns. Someone said this is because I need to take more vitamins and supplements to help my skin heals, but I think I take enough already so if it doesn't heal then I'll leave it that way :) I'm not proud of it, but I won't spend money for plastic surgery or too much supplements

I had two scars. The one on my shoulder is I had a great fall from the conveyor belt in the production fall. I had a big cut on my shoulder and dislocated. I had to cast my shoulder for 1 months due to accident and neligence. The other one is on my knee. This one is due to my stupidity and arogant, serve me right. I was on a cycling trip with my friend. When we rented the racing bike, I realize the brake is unable to function properly. I just take it easy and think that I can handle the bike without brake. See! How foolish of me. Next thing, down the slope, I was trying to avoid crashing the couple holding hand cycling together. Here I go, unable to brake and dash all the way to the bushes. Ah-Har, I deserve it, bleeding on my elbow, knee and palm. That's the prize I had pay for.

I suppose it depends on what you consider a scar. The skin on my stomach is all marked up as the result of 6 pregnancies. I joke that it's no longer a lot of stretch marks but has turned into one big one. I am proud of them though. The ones that bother me are the ones that are still slightly visible on my arms and hands from when I worked at a restaurant a little over 4 years ago. I had very inconsiderate co-workers and they often had me on duty as the ONLY kitchen worker during the breakfast and lunch rush and pre dinner preparations. Under those pressures and conditions accidents happen quite easily. I had scald burns, grease burns, burns from contact with hot stoves and ovens, even chemical burns from having to use huge amounts of bleach in the rinse water instead of normal dish sanitizer.

Proud of? No. Embarrassed? Perhaps. But I use my scars to illustrate a real problem that we have in today's society: untrained dogs. You've seen "The Dog Whisperer"? I'm guessing you have. It's the program where the guy goes over peoples' houses and trains the owners on how to train their dogs? My situation was like that. I was over a new friend's house during the winter and was in the backyard playing with her Shepherd-mutt puppy. The dog wouldn't let go of the ball! So I did exactly what I'd do with the only other dog in my life (my Uncle's Golden Retriever) and grabbed the ball from the dog's mouth, while saying "Drop it." The dog didn't seem angry. I knelt down to pet him with my mittened hand, and he reached out and bit my hand right thru the material, HARD. I didn't think I was hurt, I was just shocked. I pulled off my mitten, and low, he had punctured my hand in about thirteen places. The canines did the most damage, opening deep puncture wounds through which I could see my own flesh! Fortunately my friend's mother was a nurse and she cleaned the wounds and treated them with sulfa. I didn't want the dog to be blamed for the accident, but my mother was a raving lunatic when she saw my hand. It took six weeks for the wounds to heal, and I had a Girl Scout bowling tournament that I suffered through only days after being bitten. I still have the canine-tooth scars on the back of my hand and on my thumb. So I show kids those scars when they rough-house with their pets, and warn them not to tease their pets, not to mention strange dogs. Shepherds are not my favorite dog now - as you can tell! Great guard-dogs, tho'. ;)

I have a lot of scars. None of them make me proud because I'm a clutz. Most of the time it's because I fall or I step on something while I'm barefooted. It's kind of embarrassing because I do a lot of damage for doing something so small.