By: Madison Rastocny
Some people have scars from surgeries, some have scars from accidents, and others have scars with unusual stories behind them.
Ryan Kleine-Kracht, Hailee Gerth, Maddie Mumford, Sierra Willis, Lynsey Beahl and Josie Garver are students who have interesting stories about their scars.
While playing soccer in high school, Mumford rolled her ankle in a game, but she said she has high pain tolerance and just let it go.
“The season was over, and my ankle hurt pretty bad still, so I told my parents that I should get it checked out,” Mumford said.
She went to the doctor and found out she had two torn ligaments and a bone chip, so she had surgery to repair it.
As a third grader, Kleine-Kracht was at a waterpark racing his friend up the stairs to a water slide when he fell on the concrete.
“I got to the top of the waterslide, and the worker looked at me, and I wondered why he looked at me funny. I didn’t think anything of it,” Kleine-Kracht said.
He proceeded down the slide, and he saw his mother.
“She was just in horror and there was blood running down my chin, then I had to go get three stitches,” he said.
Gerth has scars on both of her shins from when she was doing box jumps at volleyball conditioning in seventh grade. She was jumping on to a box, didn’t elevate enough and her shins hit the edge of the box and started to bleed.
“My shins swelled up three times the size they were. I walked around Hobby Lobby after, then went home and iced them,” Gerth said.
Willis was in a car accident at a younger age.
“I have a scar on my eyebrow, and I got it from a head-on car collision when I was about 3 years old or so,” Willis said.
Beahl has a scar on her elbow after falling five feet off a stage in 2022.
“I had to have surgery and plates put in my arm the next day to put my bones back together as they were separated,” she said.
She also has a scar all the way down her spine from having scoliosis her first year in high school.
She said, “When I was 15 years old, I had rods put into my spine and the scar is still there.”
As a junior in high school, Garver was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to go to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis for brain surgery.
“I ended up having major brain surgery to remove most of my tumor. I spent a month in the hospital recovering,” she said.
She had surgery again in January 2021.
“I had to have another surgery to have a shunt placed, and they had to go through my brain and stomach to place the shunt, which left two more major scars,” she said.
Garver missed the entire spring semester of her sophomore year at Bellarmine to recover from the surgery.
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