So I had an ascending aortic dissection in 2015 followed by emergency, open-heart surgery and a couple of weeks in a coma. The fact that you’re here is an absolute miracle. I have had spots, shutter vision, blindness, various visual hallucinations, as well as a jagged lightning bolt that moves across my vision slowly over about a 30 minute timeframe. I got a sneaking suspicion that the hypothermic complete circulatory arrest has something to do with all of it. If you were on DH CA, then I suspect you were in the same wonderland that I was in. It’s the kind of thing that almost nobody knows anything about even people in the medical community. Most of my information came from going back to California and sitting talking to my thoracic surgeon for an hour. Once I understood what he had done to me in saving my life, it was a lot easier for me to accept a little bit of the crazy auditory and visual situations. I did have my right eye start swirling around independent of my left eye uncontrollably. When I went to the emergency room, they told me I had had a left parietal lobe stroke. That makes total sense given all the crazy medical stuff that they did. So, don’t despair. You’re not the only one. The type of surgery you and I both had is absolutely as cutting edge as anything that’s possible medically. The fact that you’re having some after effects is normal. Feel free to reach out to me privately if you want to talk more. Peace.