Terrible looking burn on my ankle...help

For a while, about two years ago, I was emotionally unstable (I still am but I express it differently now) and I burned an aum symbol onto my ankle with a soldering iron, essentially as a nihilistic "fuck all this hippie shit" kind of thing. Needless to say, I regretted it as soon as I calmed down. It's a really bad burn, about an 1 x 1 1/2 inches, and it's not going away anytime soon, if ever. It turned white right away and then didnt look like it had started to heal for almost a month after.

It's not recognizable as anything and never really was, though it's clearly not an accident. I'm not even very comfortable with bare feet in front of people other than my family and close friends, who supported me through those times, and I always have to make excuses so I can keep my socks on. I've tried for 2 years to live with it, or accept it as part of my past, I'm not going to show it off.

First, is there any way to get rid of it?
or
how should I go about further burning it to get rid of the parts that are obviously not an accident to disguise it as one? I'm not using the soldering iron again.

Failing that, what kinds of accidents might cause something like that, so I've got a good explanation if someone asks about it? In the past, I said it was from getting too close to a campfire when I was trying to warm up. But that's improbable.

I'm not putting any money into it, since I'd rather people (including my family) didn't know.

Thanks!

 

its a scar now yeah? i have a burn on the under of my right arm. just a little mark from work, it sucks getting burned in the kitchen. i barely even touched the pan, for like 1 sec, and its now a light brown scar. my friend got it worst, he has burn marks all over his arms from little accidents being a chef in that restaurant. they might fade but i don't think they go away... you should take a pic, im sure the soldering iron idea wasn't thought over, that thing must of been so dirty.

 

first of all.. an aum symbol? what? you mean an om? the one that looks kind of like a thirty?
Um.. you could say you dropped a hot metal spoon on your ankle or you had the oven all the way open and were reaching into the back and accidentally picked up your foot and it touched a hot part of the oven door and burned? then again you're a guy so that might sound a little strange unless you like too cook.. a candle could've fallen and rolled toward you? You could also get a tattoo to cover it.

 

(Aum is an alternate spelling of om...)

Haha...yes I do cook.
I'm generally pretty careless about safety in the kitchen...or really careless everywhere. I burned my finger one time when I touched the stove element to see if it was still on.
The same day...I carelessly didn't look behind me when I put my jacket on the table behind me, failing to notice the candle on the table. The fleece jacket melted and I got a painful burn on my hand from the melted plastic.
Thanks...both of the things you suggested are definitely probable...
Actually, now that I think about it, there are a lot of stupid things I do that could cause it...

But it still does look kind of deliberate, so I'd still probably have to disguise it...

Is it even possible to tattoo over a large patch of scar tissue like that?

Thanks!

 

None of it was thought over...if I'd thought it over for more than an hour, I wouldn't have done it at all. Yeah, I'm sure it was incredibly dirty...




It's fairly light right now, but if it was wet, it would be quite red and stand out a lot more...

I'd like a cover up tat..
Though I don't know how comfortable I would feel cause a lot of people I respect wouldn't like it...not that it would usually stop me, but if I get my first tat to cover up something I'm already uncomfortable about...well, I dont know.
BTW (kind of unrelated...) drumminmama, were you ever told "you know, it's against your religion..." by people you respect? (Jews, I mean...)
I dont even know how to respond to that. And I hear all these hateful non-religious comments about tattooed people from my really liberal family (though my parents are better about it...) who are so convinced that they're so tolerant and accepting, but when I defend that issue, it's one of the very few things they don't take me seriously about...I dont get it. I know it shouldnt be an issue for me at all, but I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about using this as the occasion to defy it...

Also, should this be in the body modification forum instead, cause I meant to put it there...or is this fine here?

 

i know that emu oil can help the burn fade away. it may not completely make it go away but its really suppose to help. and as a plus it is all natural
http://www.emustore.com/
if you want to check it out...

 

call it a neb nose trap, and you just fell into it, when someone asks what it is....