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A surgery intern was the one who closed the incision, and they didn't do a very good job. 'I had a calcium buildup on my arm, and decided to have removal surgery to get rid of the pain, knowing there would be a huge scar after. So now I have a nice scar in the middle of my chest.' - Brittany M. So I had to get open heart surgery to fix the hole or else I would have died before 18 years old- my doctor said my heart and hole was the largest he'd ever seen. Come to find out I had a hole in my heart where 90 percent of the wall between my upper chambers were gone mixing the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood causing my heart to work harder and enlarge ten times its normal size.

'When I was a freshman in high school I was at soccer practice and passed out mid warm up run. Their judgments and criticisms stayed with me all through middle school. My parents ignored it and told me to focus on becoming a doctor, expressing that becoming an astronaut is a childish dream and I won't be able to do anything with my life. What if they think this is odd or weird? What if people wouldn't believe in me? What if I begin to think I don't belong in space? When I finally gained enough courage to tell my friends, they laughed it off thinking that I was joking. When I did begin to tell people about my dream, I felt afraid as if I were stuck in a horror movie. Women don't become astronauts it's not a field that they thrive in.

While reading this, I realized why voicing my desire to become an astronaut had never happened. While reading about Scott Kelly and the International Space Station, the light bulb turned on: I knew nothing about the space program, so I typed into the Google search bar 'women in space.' What I found was that there have been 58 women out of 536 astronauts in space.

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