I learned about having an aortic aneurysm about 3 yrs ago. Actually, at first it wasn’t a concern as I believed I was doing all that my health-conscious self knew to do and was advised to just live my life fully and trust where life would take me. My last echo revealed that I was 5.5 so I knew that the best option was to just let go and let God. Truly, my sense of gratitude has expanded to the degree that my letting go has been practiced. I’ve come to an almost minute by minute awareness of the gifts of my life, despite a lot of very intense physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological challenges which continue. As I have been having a lot of breathlessness, I began to explore more of what a rupture would look like. In doing so, my awareness began to focus more on what could be going wrong in the present. My anxiety and focus on death increased and I am now in the process of accepting both aspects of the living/dying reality. I am so curious and joyous with the possibility of a new life which I can hardly imagine, that my faith in God-in-me had given me peace, even as world events threaten with chaotic reactivity. I do hope you can trust life at its core within you and respond with gratitude and love in whatever stages you pass through. Many blessings❣️