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TITAN:SvS Study - Ascending Aortic Aneurysm

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@bitsygirl

Yeah, it's odd. A chance to get it repaired at 5.0 if you're finding it hard to get a surgeon who will, but only a 50% chance.

For a while after I was just diagnosed, I was in the camp of "I just want to get this thing fixed already". But after living with it and learning about it, I am not in the rush that I was. Maybe if I were a little older and concerned about getting it done before I can't withstand the surgery. Yet, sounds like if you stay in shape, people are older than you'd imagine when they get the surgery.

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That's all well and good, each person has a choice in life. However, I still drive myself, as I live alone. Each time I get behind the wheel I have to worry about what if I sneeze too hard, cough the wrong way and it goes? According to the so-called experts in the field, When it busts and not if, I won't have to worry about it as it will only take 10 to 15 seconds for me to bleed out. Well, thank god for that no pain. I'm driving down the highway at 60 miles an hour, the city street at 20 or 35 miles an hour, its a school day or just turning into a parking lot with people all around. Who dies with me? One of your family members, your son your grandson, or daughter, your wife, your dog, or even you.
My question is, all these so-called experts know it's going to grow and it's not going to get better without medical treatment. So why force the subject to wait until there's no choice but to operate? They could have had an operation at the time of the finding. In most cases 10 years earlier in life, when you're younger and healthier.
My question is, if you have cancer, are you going to wait around for a couple of years to see how it goes before, you decide to go through the treatment to try and cure it, some expert says we have the knowledge and power to do it NOW!, Let me tell you between the Kemo and the radiation and after effects, this operation is nothing, It won't come back in a couple years and put your though all the pain of doing it over.
How ask how I know, go on, ask me.
3 years ago I was in perfect health, with no meds besides 10mg of Atorvastatin Calcium for Antitox or cholesterol, and they discovered a small lump in my neck, did a test, and came back with cancer. 4 months later, going bolded, no taste buds, no salivary glands and it kills my thyroid gland. That was 2 1/2 years ago. Still no taste, or saliva, and my meds are 10mg, for antitox now a Thyroid 25mg pill once a day. Health wise everything is grand, no heart, blood, or weight problems. Nothing but the stinking aortic aneurysm,
Lived, with the worst that GOD can hand me, Fed up with living on 6 to 10 bottles of ENSURE a Day or protein blend mix. With no taste or flavor. Plus 10 to fifteen bottles of water a day to stop dry mouth. And you think a few days or weeks in recovery for an operation to save your life is too much. I promise you it's nothing, I spent two years recovering from my military issues.
Yes, it is risky, but the only ones they are protecting with the wait is themselves. If they screw up the operation, it will look bad on their resume. Or won't get paid, this way they tell themselves, well I did everything I could for them, and they just got unlucky and passed before I could operate. Or hey, they refused to do it earlier and I could have saved them.