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@heins thank you so much for sharing mine is at 3.8 and involves the entire visceral segment of the thoracic and upper abdominal aorta so that is really scary 😦 where it is positioned scares the hell out of me my vascular surgeon thinks when it gets to 5 cm he could do the EVAR but not sure due to location so I feel like I always have this black cloud over my head I have other medical issues the waiting is what is so horrible I have a good support system but they do. Not get how this affects a person medically and physically I’m 57 and do not want to live with this over my head but I know I have to I just wish I had someone in person where I live to hang out and talk with but I just moved 30 minutes from the city to 20 acres of farmland no animals could not take care of them but after moving out here my husband had open heart surgery with major complications so not being use to the country life I’m a city girl all the way I had to learn how to take care of things plus him for almost 2 years he had his last surgery in March of 25 and it takes a full year of recovery so no physical work so I’m left to take care of the well septic mow this huge yard takes me at least 2 hours I’m tired and trying to get him to move which will be hard he is 68 and always wanted to be out here and after everything happened I think he realizes he can’t do what he use to. And I should not be doing half the things I do but my family lives 30 minutes away and all the stress I’m under does not help my situation sorry o long winded I’m from Erie Pa so you know what I have to go through with the winters here we just had 2 major storms the last one a ice storm where we lost power for 5 hours my biggest fear is if something happens they will not get to me in time being so far from the hospital. It was great talking to you where are you from if I may ask.

Ann

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@midnightwolf
In a similar position of being in the wrong place (Western N.C.)
Lets hope we both can relocate to lets say...Florida.
Things are much easier to get to. Also wonderful weather.
Ask your family to help you. Moving to a place where you are happy will change a lot.
I plan to. do the same thing 🙂