@houston13 Thank you for sharing your story. While we have learned over the last 25 years that aortal aneurysms are genetic in our family, until this last week, no one has ever discussed a connection between these aneurysms and the sudden loss of one of my brother's sons, age25, from what doctors at the time called an "a brain ambulism." That was 30 years ago. I still haven't been able to talk about this possibility with my brother or his other 2 sons.