Heart surgery is scary, but necessary

 I hear a lot of stories about people who have to get big operations. You know the very scary ones that have a 40% success rate. But yeah, these operations are the ones that make you sit and reflect on all of your life decisions. It's a serious thing to go through, and the recovery, I know, sucks. My mom, when I was 13 years old, had gone into cardiac arrest and died for 38 minutes, and she had to get open heart surgery to get a defibrillator put in, and if you don't know what that is, it's basically this device that acts as a resuscitator if your heart were to stop again. She was in the hospital for a month. There was a time when she had a breathing tube down her throat so she couldn't talk. When she finally came home, her recovery was slow, and she couldn't eat certain foods, still can’t eat certain things, she can’t lift over 25 pounds, and she had to quit her job working for my school.  My point is that having to experience almost losing my mother and watching her now struggle was a blessing. It wasn’t at first, I’ll admit, but the surgery and the diet and the painful recovery played a big role in the healing process. The funny thing about the heart is it's actually intricately linked to true emotion. For example, if someone's heart is beating rapidly, we know that they are experiencing an anxiety attack, just like someone who has swelling in their left ventricle is experiencing heartbreak. I say all this to say that we as people may have to make some changes in our lives, they may be difficult and scary, and might even be hard to get over, but if we ever want to improve and gett better as humans, we have to get on the operating table and go through those procedures. After the big operation, you can’t be moving in the same way you were before, not unless you want to end up back in the hospital or dead. I’m sort of speaking figuratively, but I mean in a literal sense too. Heart surgery (figuratively and literally) can be both painful and scary, but it is necessary for the better.

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