You’re safe and you’re going to be OK. Your doctors are on top of this and you are on top of it. That’s what matters. You know you have an issue and you know you have a great team behind you that will help you solve it. You are ahead of 99% of other patients who have no idea that they have this condition until the aneurysm bursts, and then it’s too late. It’s scary, but it’s going to be OK and the fact that you are aware of it and ready, willing, and able to do something about it means that you’re gonna be a survivor with all the rest of us. There is life after an aortic dissection. I have a wonderful life and I am wonderfully healthy. I am much healthier than I was before. It happened in 2015, even though I did not know why I didn’t feel so well. An aneurysm in aorta changes the how hard your heart has to work to circulate blood and affects the way the blood flows through your body. It’s bad for your heart and shortens your life. So doing a Repair, while initially painful following surgery, is going to make you feel like a new person because now your heart will be working correctly. Your surgeons will also have a chance to repair or replace your aortic valve in the event that is compromised or damaged. You’re going to be fine. I’ve been alive and well for nine years following emergency surgery to replace my dissected order in 2015. I survived this whole time so I could help give you good information and bring you peace. Peace.