I drew this cartoon while going through the process of dealing with newly diagnosed heart disease and the steps taken by the medical experts to deal with it. My end result was open heart surgery.
“YOU’VE GOT A BAD HEART.”
No one living an active life wants to hear those fateful words… Come to think of it, neither does the couch potato. So, why me? After all these years trying to be a nice guy I ended up with a bad heart! How did that happen?
Have you ever thought about what having a “bad” heart means? Aside, of course, the implication you are lucky you made it to the Doctor’s office before you died. For that matter, isn’t an autopsy open heart surgery?… Just a little too late to be of any help.
The idea they can turn a bad heart into a good one by simply performing surgery struck me as a little simplistic. If that’s the case, why don’t they attempt a change of heart by performing heart surgery on criminals? It seems like it would save a lot of money over the long haul rather than incarcerating them in institutions which seem to enlarge their bad hearts.
Actually, I knew what the Doctors meant. The “Bad heart” they were talking about was a physical condition not an attitude. But, thinking like a cartoonist, that’s not what I heard. I had to draw it like I heard it…And how I remembered it.
Speaking of what I remembered, don’t you think the gown is a nice touch?