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Have you ever had blunt force trauma to your chest? Have you ever been on fluoroquinolone antibiotics, like cipro? Also, have had your whole genome sequenced, or did your doctor just run the standard aortic panel on you?
With no warning, with that serious an aneurysm, I can almost guarantee there's a reason for it that isn't being investigated.
I kept asking, "Why?" And I kept not getting answers. So I looked for my own.
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My reasons were simple: Air travel, on my feet teaching for 14 hours a day, two days in a row, obesity, fatty hotel food, stress, untreated hypertension, and a layover day spent in the 113F Anza Borrego desert in California acting like I was 20 when I was actually 50. The human body can only take so much pressure. I have to be ruthlessly honest with myself about what caused my aorta to expand and then ultimately explode: me.
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No to all questions. There doesn't need to be a reason.
I think I just survived until it finally dissected and I felt it that night.