Scar Tissue

One of the things that I hate about the onset of Autumn is the way it makes my scars hurt. I suppose it’s the same as with arthritis, or bunions (not that I suffer from either of those) – but the onset of colder damper weather just makes me hurt.

I’ve got two scars where this really takes effect – one in my right shoulder, and one in my left thumb. The shoulder is more debilitating, leaves me needing to stretch it on regular occasions – and stretch it in strange ways. The thumb is a lesser injury, but still makes the entire knuckle hurt.

The shoulder scar was caused by a big stick with a nail in, wielded one night when I used to run pubs. Burglar alarm went off, Muggins had to go and investigate, and I got a big stick with nails in it for a present. I was lucky really – it caught my shoulder rather than my head. But the nail went in deep enough to jam the joint, and the scar is now about the size of a 50p piece.

The thumb scar is more down to idiocy, and was a bone-deep cut back when I was in school. I won’t bother with the full details, because they’re just idiotic – and idiocy on the part of both myself and A.N.Other. Suffice it to say that I came within microns of cutting the tendon in my thumb, and doing permanent damage. More by luck than judgement I avoided that, but I do still have a permanent reminder of that stupidity.

So yes, when the weather changes I start to ache. And that’s another thing that started to happen over the weekend, as Autumn draws in.