Sternum scar is "mark of the warrior"

Valve Replacement Forums

Help Support Valve Replacement Forums:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

jds

Well-known member
Joined
Apr 17, 2007
Messages
124
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Hello -

A friend of mine is a medical student at Tufts. She told me they call the sternum scar the "mark of the warrior".

I kind of liked that.

John
MVR 5/23/07
 
Anyone remember a few years ago when we named women with xeno valves Xeno Warrior Princess?

I kind of like the idea of being a warrior. That's certainly what I felt like afterwards.
 
A nice young Puerto Rican girl in my office is trying to get me to get a tatoo incorporating my new sternum scar. I have resisted.

John
 
To me its kind of like earning the Purple Heart. Looks nice on the ribbon bar, but if you had a choice, errrr, I'd skip it.
 
Tom F. said:
To me its kind of like earning the Purple Heart. Looks nice on the ribbon bar, but if you had a choice, errrr, I'd skip it.

You can get a Purple Heart for falling down and getting scraped up. NO disrespect intended (my Dad recieved one, Pearl Harbor). But the only way to get one of these babies is to get your chest split open. They are truly badges of courage.
 
Mark of the worrier

Mark of the worrier

Well, I am darned proud of my scar. I hope ot never fades. In fact one thought I had was to photograph my chest with the scar and then have a T-shirt made with that image on it.

And, speaking of bad taste, before my surgery I had made up a prototype of a biking jersey that had a picture (not a photo!) of a heart with an ascending aortic aneurysm on it, and the text "Team Aneurysm". Strangely enough, several of my friends said they would want one if I had them made up. But good taste has (so far) prevailed and I haven't acted on any of these absurd ideas.

Fast Eddie
 
I remember as a child always calling my scar my "battle scar"

I guess for me it was the battle I fought and won so I wore it proud.
 
Fast Eddie said:
And, speaking of bad taste, before my surgery I had made up a prototype of a biking jersey that had a picture (not a photo!) of a heart with an ascending aortic aneurysm on it, and the text "Team Aneurysm".

Fast Eddie

You get that shirt made up and I will take one!
 
I'm so glad....

I'm so glad....

mntbiker said:
You get that shirt made up and I will take one!

So glad to see that my friends and I are not the ONLY ones with bad taste! Let me see if I can resurrect the prototype and I'll post it.

Fast Eddie
 

Latest posts

Back
Top