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Seon Springer gets new lease on life
TUCBER PARK, NEW AMSTERDAM – Seon Springer, the 24-year old athlete who underwent heart surgery in Barbados said he has been given a new lease on life. For this he is grateful. Over the weekend he saluted the altruistic persons who assisted his family in their hour of need, “I would like to say thanks to everybody who took an interest in helping me to have a better life. I will not forget it.”
Seon Springer before the surgery
During the month of May 2008, Seon Springer collapsed while playing basketball on the Burnham Court in Georgetown. He was rushed to the Balwant Singh Hospital and days later diagnosed with regurgitation of the aorta valve and a ruptured mitral valve.
Life changed drastically for the man as his health deteriorated. Seon Springer was an active member of the New Amsterdam United Football Club and the Berbice Senior Basketball Team.
On February 22nd, the Lot 232 Tucber Park in New Amsterdam resident submitted himself to a surgical procedure to repair the sinus of the valsalva aneurysm and the mitral valve at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The man spent 14 days in the institution, and was discharged on March 4th and returned to Guyana on March 20th. To him, the experience was life-changing, “I knew what the surgery entailed and I knew what I was hoping for but yet still, I did not and could not know what the outcome of the surgery would be. It was all up to God and he saw me through it all. I was given a second chance at life.”
In reflecting on life prior to the surgery, he said the hardest part was not knowing whether he would survive the procedure and even the time leading up since his condition continued to get worse, “I spent most of the time thinking when I would do the surgery because every day I was getting weaker and not hearing anything from the doctor. Every night when I went to bed I used to wonder if I would wake up the next day. With all that I couldn’t get much sleep. I lost 20 pounds in three months and that bothered me a lot. Everybody just kept asking me, what was wrong?”
The operation lasted six hours and tending to him were a surgeon and four doctors. Upon regaining consciousness, he heaved a sigh of relief, ‘Thank God I am alive! The first thing I did was look around and after I saw the doctors – three of them I knew I was still alive. I prayed and thanked God.”
The road to recovery is a painful one but this is a non-issue to him since being alive is more important, “I felt a lot of pain immediately after I regained consciousness. This lasted for weeks and up to today I am still in pain but it is not as bad as it was before. It gets better every day. The doctor explained the process of healing to me and he told me it would hurt for a while. They had to cut straight down the middle of the ribs and sprawl it open to do the operation.”
His mother, Maxciene Williams, also lauded those who gave moral, physical and financial support, “I want to thank everybody who made monetary donations, those who lifted him up in prayers and offered support. Thanks, especially to the Rotaract Club of Georgetown, New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission, Aditya Kids Trust Foundation, New York based Guyanese Goolsarran Ramphal, Caribbean Airlines, HJTV, Camex Restaurant, Ansa McAl, J’s Supermarket, Gordon’s Boutique and Stationery and other business entities. We do appreciate it and are eternally grateful to each and every one of you.”
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