[ducati1974]

I've been laying in bed since 3AM thinking about my life's battle scars...
When I look in the mirror I can still make out the scar from the stitches on my chin from riding my tricycle off our porch fifty years ago...
I can clearly see the 3" gash on my side from a largely superficial wound from my teens...
I still have aches and weakness from my surgically repaired knee that I wrecked riding a four wheeler in my twenties and wonder how that will come back to haunt me as I age...
There is still a ring around my upper arm from a bad rope burn in my thirties...
I still have aches & numbness from the finger I caught in a fan blade and severed all the tendons, arteries, and nerves...
When I turned fifty my physical revealed that I've had a lifelong rare, benign condition called "Congenital Absence of the Pericardium" (just what it says)...
I've lost some of my hearing capability due to years of pounding sheet metal without ear protection and I wonder how I've been so lucky to have escaped serious eye injury after years of wood & metal chips in my eyes due to carelessly not using protection...
Today I had a CT scan revealing I have a small amount of pneumonia and a small nodule on my lung thats probably benign but they want to watch in the future..
Mostly I wonder if some of my memory loss or future ills were caused by 38 years in the HVAC field and breathing in varying amounts of asbestos, Freon, CO2, poisonous welding gases, dust, lots of insulation, fibers, etc...
All in all I'm lucky to be where I am after a lifetime of carelessness, and I know that compared to a lot of you my life's scars are nothing. Here's hoping that I can get to TV soon and continue to have some luck on my side...

Tell us about your life's scars....