@moonboy this is some of the most constructive advice I have gotten. Thank you. I live in st.Paul and hoping you could give me the name and contact info for the cardiac surgeon you mentioned? I’m with Health Partners and I haven’t had consistent high quality advice from the doctors I have seem. I’m 85 yrs old and have quite a large thoracic aneurysm. I’ve been told that surgery would be risky at my age, and I believe that.