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I'm 34 years old and my husband just recently passed away two weeks before Christmas from an ruptured aneurysm. He didn't even know he had it. When I met my husband 9 years ago he told me he had had an aneurysm at 19 but the bleeding had stopped on it's own. He walked away with nothing physically wrong with him. The doctors at that time never found anything and suspected a ruptured aneurysm. They told my husband he was lucky to be alive and the chances of him having another one in life were slim to none. So when we found out this past December that he had had another one and wasn't going to make it was a huge shock. The doctors said it was one of the largest aneurysms they had seen and surgery was not an option because the bleeding was so severe. I didn't know much about aneurysms before but from reading this article, I should have seen the warning signs. My husband was a smoker and his mother is currently living with three. I guess you could say my husband had a "warning leak" at age 19 and didn't make it when it happened again. I have two small children and plan to start getting them checked as soon as I can. It is such a scary thing.