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Originally Posted by spicytuna
I'm curious as to what defines a cute scar.  |
Bacisally just about any well-healed tiny scar. But I'm all for the big ones too.
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Originally Posted by spicytuna
I've got this huge scar which looks like a centipede crawling down my arm. It's around 20cm long with maybe 50 uniformly placed "legs" from the staples which were used to close it. Is that cute? 
Imagine the looks on the face of the Japanese commuters when I'd ride the Yamanote-sen and hold onto the hanging straps with that arm with the scar in plain view. |
Mmmh sexy.
I'd sure be staring if our paths were to meet in a train.
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
In some of the other responses to me - I think people are missing that it did not hurt. The cut felt icy cold (I am assuming that the cold sensation was the icy air hitting my moist innards...), and I did feel pulling... But it wasn`t painful.
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Well, of course it didn't. You were sedated. But still, I can take the pain and be ok with it, but being aware of what they are doing to you? That's a whole different story. It's not the actual cutting through your flesh that hurts but the idea of it being done to you, you know? If I accidentally got my consciousness back while in the OR I'd freak out. Or I'd have to be
very drugged up not to, anyway. I'd want to just be put to sleep, wake up and have absolutely no memory of what happened in the OR while I was being operated on.
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
it was still horrible to feel things and be able to run a scenario through my mind of "oh crap, they must be doing this now... I do NOT want to wake up at this point!!! Please do not wake up any more!!"
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Being afraid of waking up before it's all over, and like
feel how your insides are being manipulated... must be the weirdest feeling ever.
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
and at this point I would rather risk death than choose to have them attempt to put one in again.
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That bad? Damn. Yours must be very thin veins for you to have had such dreadful experience, cause I have extremely fragile veins too but I just ask them to use the tiny IV lines they use for babies and it hardly hurts at all, and they take like 5 seconds to get one in.
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Having blood taken isn`t that bad, but I guess I am somewhat lucky on that one as the normal veins they take from in the crook of your arm don`t work well for me. On the left, I don`t even have one there, and the right is very small. As it`s obvious from looking, the doctors will listen to me and use an infant gauge needle to take from there or the back of my hand.
But when it comes to an IV, they will never ever listen to me that it isn`t easy to get one in and just assume I`m scared of needles - or that I had a single bad experience with an unskilled doctor. And of course, they have 20+ years of experience getting one in, blah blah blah.... And then half an hour later they give up and tell me that I must have the problem I TOLD them I had before we started, and that I will need to sign waivers because they couldn`t get one in and didn`t want me suing them later for it.
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Hahaha I've
so been through all of it before.
Well, not anymore, but it used to be like that all the freaking time. Now they are able to take it from the crook of my arm, but some years ago they had to get it from the hand, so I'd just ask them to try my hand in the first place and they'd insist on trying the arm first, and I'd be like "It's no use, you're not gonna be able to hit the vain cause I happen to have not only thin veins but slippery too", and they'd just laugh and say they'd done it millions of times and knew how to do it right, so I'd just be like "Okay, go right ahead" and they'd screw up badly and act all surprised and go "Wow you do have some pretty slippery veins there"... yeah, like I didn't tell you, asshole ¬¬ So yeah, you're not alone on this.