Your Mystery Injury Today Will be...

[etakyma]

Huh. Ever hurt yourself and not know how? I bruise fairly easily. Or well, bruises show up on my pale pale pale skin very easily (you think I'm kidding about the paleness of my skin - I'm really not. Once, I was wearing a skirt during the summer and no stockings and someone asked me wasn't I hot in my white tights. I had to admit that I wasn't wearing tights, and she actually reached over to feel my legs just to make sure. Good thing she is a friend!). I usually have brown-blue or fading yellow-green marks on my legs and arms. Sometimes, if I press them, I have a flash of sense memory of how I got them. Good times.

Today I have a burn on my arm. Small - maybe an inch and a half - little red mark. I close my eyes - oh yes! I was ironing out one of the costumes yesterday. And I'd tipped the iron back to its resting position, and scraped the inside of my arm over the tip by accident.

War wounds, I tell you!

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[flourish.livejournal.com]

I do this all the time, especially on my thighs. I think it's because years of martial arts has made me not notice it when I get hit with blunt objects/run into blunt objects - it's only if it's REALLY hard or almost sharp enough to draw blood that I notice.

However, I don't realize what happened when I touch them again. I wish I did - it would answer loads of questions!

[zortified.livejournal.com]

I get mystery bruises daily, from work. I take my post-work shower and discover bruises and cuts and think 'do I remember doing this?' and often as not, I can't. I just know it happens at work.

Amusingly, once I was in the ER (not for work injuries) and the nurse wanted to take some blood and she warned me it might hurt. She poked my finger and I thought "wow, my quilting needles are bigger than that! That little thing doesn't hurt at all!"