If my back scar weren’t so long that it’s difficult to hide in almost any dress, even ones with higher backs and even lots of day-to-day clothes, I don’t think I’d let people see it. Its exposure forces me to just kinda be okay with it. The scar down the side of my stomach does bother me more than the one on my back,…

I had a really massive spinal fusion right after I graduated college. Most of my spine is totally immobile and I have a scar running down the length of my back and one down the side of my stomach from the 13-hour surgery. I was left immobilized for several months after, unable to even bathe unassisted. When I was…