It gets better. They tend to fade over the years, though they don't really go away.

One thing i wanted to ask was, what was the last thing you remember before they put you under the anesthesia to do the surgery?

I ask because I've had quite a few surgeries growing up. Sometimes i remember clearly what happened before, and sometimes i don't remember anything. When i was younger i apparently kicked a nurse when they put the anesthesia on me (I'm a not a violent person at all lol), i didn't remember that experience, but my last surgeries were both open heart surgeries, and i remember clearly what happened right before they made me fall asleep. I just find it strange, what your brain tends to remember and what it doesn't.

My OHS was for a heart condition i was born with. I had it when i was a teenager, and a bunch of horrible things happened and went wrong during the surgeries, they had to open me up again less then a day post surgery. There were multiple complications afterwards too. Fortunately, I'm still here. I haven't fully recovered after four years, but time tends to heal all things. The fluid in lungs thing can be annoying, i still remember that feeling where you breathe in and it feels pretty awful. That should go away completely. Once you're up and walking around, i think they give you exorcises help with it.

The scar really does get better later on. When i first saw mine, i was really upset, but it really fades to the point where sometimes you forget it's even there. One way to look at it is that you can see it as a badge that symbolizes you won, you fought through it and wont go down without a fight, that you're still here.

I wish you the best of luck in your recovery OP.