I got a whole Viking saga's worth of stories...
First, nine years old, car accident, hand flew out the window and car rolled on top of it, severing one fingertip, crushing two others. Stitches, hundreds of them, my hand in a mitt for three months and that pretty much ended my ambidexterity.
At age twenty, working on a sculpture, sawing with my Swiss Army knife. Took a wild swing and raked the saw across my left thumb, clear down to the bone. Get this, it didn't hurt, but there was blood all over the place, so I went down to the ER to get it fixed. Irony time: the shot to locally anaesthetize it hurt more than the injury itself! Total of eight stitches.
June 1987, wisdom teeth extraction. All four. Don't remember how many stitches it took to close those pits but the roots grew at screwy angles and the dentist had to literally chisel away at the bone matrix around them.
September/October 1994: knee dislocation, it needs arthroscopy to stabilize it. Four "rattlesnake" scars at the semi-cardinal compass points around my left knee, each took about 3-5 stitches to close.
January 1999: Out camping in the desert, putting up a yurt, one of the rafters fell and smacked me in the face. My brow ridge and cheekbone saved me from losing my right eye but it took about 36 stitches to close the wound, externally. There were more stitches inside because the injury screwed up my tear duct drainage tube so every now and again my right eye spontaneously tears, emotional status notwithstanding.
September 16, 2005: you might have read it already, but I had major cancer surgery. Colon resection in two places, hysterectomy, appendectomy. Internally, more stitches than you could shake a stick at, external wound closed with 32 staples. That was interesting. For a couple weeks, I had a total of five navel piercings! (But thankfully, I don't have to worry about getting my tubes tied anymore...)
Early December 2005: I had to get a shunt put in my chest for chemotherapy so I have that, four stitches holding it in place on my pec and in my ventral artery, seven stitches closing the entry wound. I'm getting it taken out after I get the "all clear" from my oncologist, which means another wound, another 7-10 stitches, I'm guessing at right angles to the initial entry scar.
Here's fingers crossed that the present collection is "My Lifetime Share" and I don't have to go under the knife/needle/stapler again...