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There’s this new trend that I stumbled across a few weeks ago; people have been covering their scars with tattoos. I’m no stranger to tattoos. I myself have 5 (and counting). My argument for tattooing myself was always that I never chose to have my scars so I have every right to decorate the rest of my body the way I want. But there are three big reasons that I don’t think I could bring myself to getting tattoos to cover my scars: It would be incredibly expensive. I would need my whole stomach tattooed to cover my surgical incisions and my feeding tube scars. Then we’d move to my chest to cover scarring from central lines. Not to mention the half sleeves (yes both arms) that I would have to get to cover my PICC line scars. My tattoo artist is expensive as is, but the number of tattoos I’d need would cost more than I’d make in years of work. I can’t rationalize covering my scars. I told my tattoo artist when I got my first tattoo at sixteen that if I ever came to him with a tattoo...