As I was in the mud, I couldn’t get any traction to lift the bike. I calmly turned the engine off, then turned to panic as I felt the burning on my leg. My Suzuki landed on top of my leg, I was pinned on my back like a turtle. "While riding my dirt bike in 8th grade, I slid out in the mud. I was only three when it happened." - Kate G. "I was at the first fireworks that I remember, and a falling firework ash fell into my Wellington boot and burned me. Now I have a nice big scar in the middle of my shin" - Katie O. Her mom only had one rule for this birthday weekend: no flip flops. "For Dana’s birthday every year we went to walk the rock coast in Rockport MA. (Yes, I do have a huge scar from that lovely day.) Your elbow was bleeding the whole day." - Alexandra N. "I don't have too many of my own, but Dana I sure as hell remember watching you somersault down the cement bowl of the skate park when I was trying to teach you how to roller blade. I had a bald spot for five years." - Molly K. "So I'm four years old and laying on the ground in my brother’s room while he is vacuuming. shark attack, stabbed, car accident), because I get a kick out of it, and who cares anyway?" - Ashley J. So sometimes when people ask me what happened I like to make up stories (i.e. It's still pretty big, but I used to be very self-conscious about it. A few years later, I watched them cut out the entire scar to fix the damage, which left me with a new one. The scar didn't heal right, so it was much bigger than they expected. A surgery intern was the one who closed the incision, and they didn't do a very good job. "I had a calcium buildup on my arm, and decided to have removal surgery to get rid of the pain, knowing there would be a huge scar after. So now I have a nice scar in the middle of my chest." - Brittany M. So I had to get open heart surgery to fix the hole or else I would have died before 18 years old- my doctor said my heart and hole was the largest he'd ever seen. Come to find out I had a hole in my heart where 90 percent of the wall between my upper chambers were gone mixing the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood causing my heart to work harder and enlarge ten times its normal size. "When I was a freshman in high school I was at soccer practice and passed out mid warm up run.
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