QUESTION:

Which of your scars has the most interesting story behind it?

Boy, I can really go to town with this one!

Start at the knees- I was back in the old country playing with some gypsy kids. Fell and gashed my right knee pretty badly. Off to the doctor we went and to stitches applied without any local anaesthetic. Later that day... yep. Another fall, the stitches wrecked, back to the doc and more!

Then I decided to boil my left hand when I was around one and a half by plopping it into a pot of boiling water- maybe I was wanting to feel the bubbles? Thank God I was too young to remember because apparently all my skin melted down into my fingers- there were fears I'd never use that hand again. All I have left today are a few faded scars. And full use of my hand thankfully.

Oh and one time, I fell off the first floor balcony to concrete below- what saved my two year old arse that time was a blanket placed on the rail to 'air'... Apparently I got tangled up in it and it broke the fall. Scars and stitches on the left knee from that experience!

But there's THE one. On my left thigh, close to my knee. That's where I stabbed myself with a pair of scissors- after that first fateful night when I almost died. I have twin round scars there; they serve as constant reminders that I didn't succumb, that I overcame the need to at least continue to 'physically' hurt myself... believing events were my fault.

How about you? Any scars of interest? There's gotta be at least one!