00:00I actually almost died right there and then on the table.
00:03Hey guys, I'm Sydney and I love my scar.
00:06I was 10 years old and I was carrying a glass jar.
00:10The concrete was a little uneven, my foot got caught.
00:13I tripped and I fell and I held the glass jar into my stomach.
00:16The glass shattered underneath me.
00:19Truthfully, all I felt was this huge forceful, what felt like a push.
00:23And I lifted up my shirt and I looked down and
00:26my intestines were just coiled up, hanging there.
00:30I looked at my mom and I was like, mom, I don't feel so good.
00:33And she went into total mom mode.
00:36We run into the hospital.
00:37My mom's like, we need help, we need help.
00:39So my mom's like, show them your stomach.
00:41So I lift up my shirt and they're like, holy crap,
00:44like everyone's scrambling, they're all running around.
00:47That was probably one of the last things that I remember.
00:50As the glass went into my stomach, it had cut my pancreas,
00:53my liver and my gastro duodenal artery.
00:55And my artery had pumped so much blood that that's what forced my intestines out of my stomach.
01:00I lost almost all my blood.
01:01So I actually almost died right there and then on the table, which is pretty crazy.
01:06I stayed in the hospital for about a week and a half after that, just recovering.
01:10You know, I was so fortunate.
01:11Every step of the way, I just had the most amazing doctors and people.
01:14I am so, so, so fortunate to be here.
01:16My parents and my family and my friends were the most amazing support system.
01:19Like my room felt like a carnival room at all times.
01:21And I think that was what really kept my morale high and really helped me fight through this.
01:26So I have a scar running vertical right below my sternum down to the bottom of my stomach,
01:30which is what the doctors had cut.
01:32I have a scar running horizontal, which is where the glass actually went in
01:36and where my intestines had come out of my stomach.
01:38And then I have a third scar, which was for a tube that was draining my pancreas
01:42during the time that I was recovering.
01:44Truthfully, my stomach had just grown in weird, in a weird way,
01:47because obviously the doctor was not trying to make my stomach look pretty.
01:50He was trying to save my life.
01:51And so no matter how skinny I was or would be, it would always be uneven.
01:55I'll be changing in front of people.
01:57And it's like, oh, whoa, I have to remember I have this scar.
02:00It's just not normal to people.
02:01You know, I have a foot long scar my entire stomach.
02:04And not everyone does, obviously.
02:07It's a marker that shows how fortunate and lucky I am to be here.
02:11And so in that sense, it's kind of cool to have.
02:14I love my scar because it's a symbol of everything I went through and who I am.
