[LJ Idol 9: Week 6] Scar

[cheshire23]

I carry a scar in the palm of my hand - a small, raised divider that neatly bisects my life line

Comments

[jem0000000]

*hugs* Ouch. And yeah -- always the wonder, what if there was something else that could have been done. I'm glad it did heal up well enough, though.

[cheshire23]

Yeah...that same side has been susceptible to sprains and has developed all kinds of other annoying problems over the years - heel spurs, a bunion on my big toe, and bursitis on my hip. Not comfortable.

[fourzoas]

I like the scar as metaphor for the crack; there was also a sense of it as a dividing line in your life as well as you hand.

[cheshire23]

Sometimes it feels like it.

[halfshellvenus]

I agree about being lucky not to get an infection. But when you don't have the money, it's easy to minimize a possibility like that away.

I tripped on a crack in the sidewalk at night while running in college. My left hand helped break my fall in the grass... but pulled my little finger to where I lost most of the grip (not good when you're a violin major). I wound up at the sports medicine center, where the guy who ran it wanted to know why so many musicians were clogging up his facilities!

[cheshire23]

Yikes! Yes, not good for playing violin.

[i_17bingo]

Falls are the worst, because you have so much time to think in that second it takes you to hit the ground, but not a lot of time to do anything about it.

[cheshire23]

YES EXACTLY. :P

[catwomon]

What a painful but necessary lesson. I have one of those on my hand as well, about where you do. I slipped on ice, and didn't want to fall on my guide dog, so I fell on the hand instead and the ice cut it pretty badly. Falling on a crack or ice, it's still a lesson to walk slower.

[cheshire23]

Slower and more cautiously, definitely.