Hello all!
I recently went to Roger Williams ER for Coumadin poisoning. Too much in my body. Supposed to be normally 1.0- 3.0.
My level was at 12. The highest they ever seen.

A bag drip of vitamin k and it went down to 4,8. Still too high but acceptable. While I was at the emergency department they did a routine CT scan. The ER doctor came to my exam bed and said.” We have to send you to Rhode Island Hospital (trauma hospital), for emergency surgery.
The surgeon at the trauma hospital said that “you will need to come back to the hospital but it isn’t bleeding at this time so we feel you can be discharged.

The issue for all this is they found an aortic celiac artery aneurysm and it was torn.

I am on Coumadin (a blood thinner) and if an artery ever burst it most likely would turn into a fatal event.
Both surgeons said that I had one and it has a tear in it. I asked if it could burst and he said that it could “but we have ways of dealing with that!
Suppose I was in a park walking and it burst plus I’m on a blood thinner for a mechanical aortic valve (I had open heart surgery in 2015.). Now what?
My PCP says to see my own vascular surgeon. My surgeon laughed, rolled his eyes up and says “I didn’t see anything, see you next year “ and rushed out the door. No time to talk about my issue.

Two hospitals and 2 cardiovascular surgeons seen it and this guy (who has been charging me a visit per year for what? This means he may know I have one but “see you next year?” I think it’s a torn aneurysm in my aortic artery and my PCP said that I go back to the surgeon who laughed at me? No way. A second opinion may be warranted here?