Apparently, if you have a scar, you don’t bruise there. Scars are about 80% as strong as flesh that has never been torn into the deep tissues. The scar on my navel is still numb, and it’s 16 years old this June. It didn’t bruise with the surrounding tissue. I knew this from text books, but I had never saw it in real life before. Most of the patients I dealt with were psych patients, and while they had scars from cutting, none of the scars were as deep as a piercing scar and they weren’t bruised over their scars.

It’s interesting that it didn’t change colour, nevertheless. Normally, the scar is a shade of purple darker than the surrounding tissue. But not lately!

For anyone worried, I am going to make an appointment to see Doc Dan (he sent me fifty Beatles songs! Woot! He must have read my Twitter complaint) tomorrow. I also have to take my lab exam tomorrow (I was supposed to take it Friday) or get an F for the lab final exam, and that would cause me not to pass my class that I have worked so hard to pass this semester. Think warm thoughts! I sure need them!