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Ascending aortic aneurysm – repair/surgery
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Sep 12, 2023 | Replies (63)Comment receiving replies
I think your cardiologist could give you a good idea as to which way to go. I plan to just carry on and let nature take its course and hope I never need surgery. I too am 75 but my ascending aortic aneurysm is a bit smaller, about 4.1 however, the aortic valve is floppy so that might be what draws me to surgery and that and the aneurysm would likely be done at the same time.
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Thank you for responding, I appreciate what you had to say. I'm open to suggestions, but, and here's the big "but" -- I don't know how wise it would be to have open heart when I'm in my 80s.
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Thanks for your response. Because I am older, I guess, I'm not overly worried about living a longer life. I have a strong spiritual practice, i.e., Tara Brach, Eckhart Tolle, Depak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and a Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda (Self-Realization Fellowship). All of which I've been engaged with for literally years. This life has been a wonderful learning experience and I hope to some day be fully self-realized and can objectively view this body as a vehicle and not have total identification with it and think it's who I really am. I am grateful for this board (as I have said before) -- there are some wonderful volunteers (and participants) writing here. Blessings...