is that scar underneath Surgical or recreational?
Not an odd question at all! It is surgical. Just before I turned 17 I had major surgery to 'fix' a pretty severe case of
scoliosis. They straightened the spine as much as they could, so that the curves were reduced from about 70-80 degree curves down to 20 degrees. Then they got chips of bone from my ribs and used that to fuse the spine together. Then screwed two titanium rods to my spine to hold it in place while the bones fused. The rods basically stopped being of use after a year, but they're not gonna take them out unless something happens and they get damaged. So yeah.
My mum jokingly suggested this tattoo idea when we were in the process of seeing specialists about this, and it stuck with me ever since. When I told her a year ago that I was definitely going to get this done someday, she seemed to regret mentioning it in the first place. I told the tattooist this and he found it hilarious, and wished me luck for when I show it to her.