Scar Tissue

When my sister was sixteen, she had spinal surgery to correct a curvature of her spine. It was pretty major surgery in which they cut her open from top to bottom and it left a gigantic zipper-style scar. Now that she’s in her mid 20’s, the scar is pretty much unnoticeable. That’s fairly impressive given the size of the incision and the enormous quantity of titanium that they put into her.

Which makes it all the more odd that in this day and age people still have belly buttons. How is it that something that is essentially just a scar hasn’t been messed with by doctors yet? You can’t tell me that they can reconstruct and even transplant entire faces, re-attach limbs and cut a person open from top to bottom, but they can’t come up with a better solution than to just leave a big gap in your stomach

After all, it’s just a hole which, after you’re born, really serves no purpose other than to collect lint, hang jewellery from or to provide an unnoticeable place in which to have keyhole surgery. It’s just weird that doctors have come up with ways to mess with every part of the body, but the belly button remains untouched.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m quite fond of my belly button. I wouldn’t want to be without it. I just find it odd that people spend so much time trying to get rid of scars, but the bellybutton is just accepted as a permanent fixture, despite the fact that it really doesn’t have all that much going for it.

Amuse yourself with some belly button facts here.