Did you ever have childhood inury that scarred you for life, literally or figureatively? Share.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

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Any childhood injuries? Are you kidding? I was the doctor's best buddy. I started off life by being about a month premature and spending the first month of my life in an incubator at the hospital. When I was three, I mangled my right hand by sticking it into some machinery. My thumb and index finger on my right hand are really scarred up from that. Let' see.... I fell and knocked myself out when I was playing in the schoolyard and still have a dent in my head from that one. I rode my sled over a hill and into a frozen creek, splitting my chin open and making a nice little scar on my chin. I was playing on a bridge once and hit the side of my hip, resulting in a bruise that nearly developed into gangrene. Almost had to have my leg lopped off over that one... umm, well there's more but I'd have to write a book. Doesn't EVERYBODY get injured now and then when they're growing up? I think they do, unless they spend their whole childhood inside, sitting on the floor under the TV.

-Dave- http://tinyplace.net

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

When I was working as a word processor at State Farm, I kept transcribing statements from injured people who were saying, "Never been sick a day in my life, never got hurt, never had to go to the hospital before this," and I'm thinking, what kind of a sheltered, boy-in-a-bubble kind of upbringing did these kids have? Or are they all mutants, like Wolverine?

I got bit in the face by a dog when I was a toddler, and I've been afraid of dogs ever since. I broke my right wrist 3 times, dislocated my left shoulder 7 times, got a hernia operation, got the shoulder operated on (still hurts when the weather changes...), ran into some barbed wire and got cuts all across my scalp, went running through some bushes once and got my left earlobe impaled on a stick... It just freaks my wife out some times, because we hear of some kind of injury and I say, "Oh yeah, that hurts like a son of a bitch."

I was trying to sign up for insurance once (after the Open Enrollment period had ended). I got to the part where it said to list all the times I had been to a doctor and what happened. Four lines, they provided. Four. I went and got a legal pad and started writing. My wife asked what I was doing, so I told her. Flipped the page. Kept writing. "Now what?" she asks. "Medical history." Flipped the page. "Now what?" "More medical history." "Stop writing," she says. "If you have three pages of medical history, they're not going to insure you unless they're required to, and that's what the open enrollment period was for, you idiot."

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000