Why having heart surgery can affect your life for better or worse
The effects it has on your life
There are many ups and downs, positives and negatives, dilemmas and decisions to be made when considering the options of having heart surgery, and in my opinion the pros outweigh the cons a million to one.
The process:
Surgery a wonderful thing. Lucky, life changing and limitless. Heart surgery is a life saver for so many people around the world. People who are born with heart defects or acquire them later on in life. Why am I talking about this today? Because I myself have been through the ups and downs of needing surgery.
To be diagnosed with a condition you would have to go through tests! tests and more tests as well as observations and being regularly monitored. Luckily after surgery you will continue to be monitored and assessed to make sure the surgery is successful and that there are no further complications.
Unknown conditions:
Obviously being monitored means if you were to develop a new condition or you current one gets worse it can be addressed immediately. Unfortunately, unknown heart conditions cause sudden deaths for many people. Around 70%, yes 70%, of cardiac related deaths are due to unknown conditions, as they have not been addressed and treated accordingly.
Unsurprisingly many of the deaths caused by unknown conditions are because people do not have access to get heart check-ups or appointment to see if their hearts are healthy. Personally, I believe that everyone should have the option to have regular cardiac test on the NHS, this would decrease the amount of sudden and unknown heart related deaths and generally increase the quality of life for many people.
Some people might think that heart surgery is an easy thing to go through but it’s honestly not. There are a fair few downs to having surgery, one of which being scaring. Some surgeries mean that scars will be left, some in places more obvious than others. Especially with heart surgery is very common to have a scar down the middle of your chest, so it can be seen when wearing most summer clothes. Many people are self-conscious about scars as it is something that makes them stand out more than some others.
The process:
Surgery a wonderful thing. Lucky, life changing and limitless. Heart surgery is a life saver for so many people around the world. People who are born with heart defects or acquire them later on in life. Why am I talking about this today? Because I myself have been through the ups and downs of needing surgery.
To be diagnosed with a condition you would have to go through tests! tests and more tests as well as observations and being regularly monitored. Luckily after surgery you will continue to be monitored and assessed to make sure the surgery is successful and that there are no further complications.
Unknown conditions:
Obviously being monitored means if you were to develop a new condition or you current one gets worse it can be addressed immediately. Unfortunately, unknown heart conditions cause sudden deaths for many people. Around 70%, yes 70%, of cardiac related deaths are due to unknown conditions, as they have not been addressed and treated accordingly.
Unsurprisingly many of the deaths caused by unknown conditions are because people do not have access to get heart check-ups or appointment to see if their hearts are healthy. Personally, I believe that everyone should have the option to have regular cardiac test on the NHS, this would decrease the amount of sudden and unknown heart related deaths and generally increase the quality of life for many people.
Some people might think that heart surgery is an easy thing to go through but it’s honestly not. There are a fair few downs to having surgery, one of which being scaring. Some surgeries mean that scars will be left, some in places more obvious than others. Especially with heart surgery is very common to have a scar down the middle of your chest, so it can be seen when wearing most summer clothes. Many people are self-conscious about scars as it is something that makes them stand out more than some others.
Achievements:
However other people are also very proud about their scars and see them almost as battle scars because heart surgery is a struggle and a hard thing to go through. Clarissa Pinkola Estes once said “Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you’ve endured. They’re a treasure map to the deep self”. Although, some people have quite mixed emotions about their scars. Most commonly they are proud of it and proud of themselves, but they still see it as a flaw and don’t always want other people seeing it, or they only feel comfortable letting people close to them see it. This unfortunately means though for some people that they become more reluctant to ge.t surgery as they are blindsided by the scaring to realise how important and life changing surgery is.
So to conclude my speech I believe that there are many more pros than cons to having heart surgery and if someone was in need of an operation they should take the opportunity as it’s life changing yet it’s not available to everyone
However other people are also very proud about their scars and see them almost as battle scars because heart surgery is a struggle and a hard thing to go through. Clarissa Pinkola Estes once said “Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you’ve endured. They’re a treasure map to the deep self”. Although, some people have quite mixed emotions about their scars. Most commonly they are proud of it and proud of themselves, but they still see it as a flaw and don’t always want other people seeing it, or they only feel comfortable letting people close to them see it. This unfortunately means though for some people that they become more reluctant to ge.t surgery as they are blindsided by the scaring to realise how important and life changing surgery is.
So to conclude my speech I believe that there are many more pros than cons to having heart surgery and if someone was in need of an operation they should take the opportunity as it’s life changing yet it’s not available to everyone
