Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 29, 2021

I think that at that age I was mostly scar tissue, all of it minor.

Sounds like something Calvin would say.

This is why getting a bone cast is better than getting a cut stitched up.

He tried to get the E.R. doc to give him a lightning bolt scar.

Actually, Frazz, a non-disfiguring scar such as his could be a great asset at sixteen. Couple the scar with some swash-buckling story and it could be a chick magnet.

All he wants is someone to ask the question. Kids need a little drama once in a while.

“Pain Heals.. Chicks Dig Scars.. Glory Last Forever.” Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) in The Replacements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBr5FA2dsk

Frankenstein’s Monster and I are similar in scar tissue. The exception is I have more.

Or, simply respond, “you should see the other guy.”

All the scars faded. The only ones I can still see are on my hands and that because I know they are there. Of course, some of the stitches I got are covered in hair so I do not know if there are scars on my head.

For the longest time, my brother kept denying he shot me in the leg with an arrow when we were kids. Until I kept showing him the scar.

If you want someone to talk to, just wear a bandaid on your forehead. In this case, maybe bright blue since it seems to match the hair too well.

Come Halloween you’ve got your choice between scarry or scary, depending on whether you can take it as well as hand it out.

Dr. Sandra Lee has the best suturing technique I have seen, but then again, she is a dermatologist.

One of my kids had to have a growth removed as a toddler and the plastic surgeon who worked on it told us to keep paper medical tape on it 24/7 for six months: it would put just the slightest amount of pressure nonstop on it and what that would do is make the scarring almost nothing. Given that her dad makes huge keloid scars, this was especially important. We did that and you can barely tell in the right light that there’s anything there, just a slight bit in front. What the surgeon actually cut was the front of her neck, where most of it was, and halfway around her neck and a bit down her back to get that growth out 30 years ago. So. Paper medical tape off any drugstore shelf. Tell them Dr. White said to.

My cousin has a scar over his eyebrow from when he slammed heads playing pick-up football during free period. Sometimes I forget it’s there then I notice it and it still takes a few minutes of silent brooding to remember.

just take the band-aid off

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Frazz · 15 hrs · Trust me, I’ve had plenty of stitches in places I’m glad didn’t leave too gratuitous a scar. But I’ll still hold fast to the old writers’ maxim of “no scars, no story.”

OK, that’s not an old writers’ maxim at all. It’s something I just made up. I kind of like it, which should make everyone suspicious of it right away. Most of my scars, however visible, do have stories. But the majority of those stories seem to be divided between the mundane (“this is where I had some kind of surgery”) to the embarrassing. When they were passing out scars, I didn’t end up in the line for the more heroic ones. True, I’m probably not done getting scars. But I suspect I’m past my prime heroic days.

I didn’t get the stitches, so I got the scar. My Mom kept reminding my Dad of that.