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The Scars of Life

by Tom Hane on Monday, Aug 15, 2022

Hi, I'm Tom. Like many ACHD patients that underwent heart surgery, I have several scars on my body as a result. To make a long story short, I was born with ventricular septal defect and a coarctation of the aorta.

I had open heart surgery VSD repair in 1976 when I was six years old that left me with the classic scar on my chest, along with a scar in my right groin where they hooked me up to the heart-lung bypass machine.

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