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Thanks for your reply Linda. AATA ascending aortic thoracic aneurism. I’m on the doorstep of 83, so intervention is iffy. Surgeons don’t like risking their numbers so they’ll watch and wait to the very last moment of choice and perhaps not then. All of my care is at MassGeneralBrigham. I don’t think pulmonology talks to cardiology regarding my case. Frustrating but that’s just the reality. They are kind of a top medical Mecca which means they get hundreds of critical cases all the time. If your wheel isn’t squeaking loud enough your case is kind of in the routine stream. I do try to be very active