My Dad's first aneurysm was found doing a regular doctor visit, they detected a heart beat sound in his stomach, couldn't do anything until it got bigger, just kept check on it, that was in 2010. Then 2012 another doctor visit for his high blood pressure, the doctor asked my dad if he has any other problems, and my dad is the type of guy who never worries about himself, but told the doctor that he had been having these headaches that would last for a couple of minutes and after would leave the side of his face numb for 5-10 minutes. So they did a mri and found 2 aneurysms, one on each side of the brain intertwined around the artereys, each at about 6.0. And told him he would probably die on the table if they tried to fix them. January 2015 they finally did the surgery on the stomach aneurysm,he came through with flying colors, but before the surgery they had to run a lot of tests on him, the 2 brain aneurysms have not grown any, but he now has a 3rd one near the brain and just his luck they have found one more behind his heart. My dad is 72, and when he was in his late 30's his blood pressure got so high, they don't know how he survived it and now think that the 2 original brain aneurysms were a result from that, over 30 years ago. He's still active and likes to do everything for himself and as he tells it, I'm not in the grave yet, so please stop trying to put me there to the family. I know it's not easy, but always try and think positive, worry is just paying the interest on a loan not due yet.
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My Dad's first aneurysm was found doing a regular doctor visit, they detected a heart beat sound in his stomach, couldn't do anything until it got bigger, just kept check on it, that was in 2010. Then 2012 another doctor visit for his high blood pressure, the doctor asked my dad if he has any other problems, and my dad is the type of guy who never worries about himself, but told the doctor that he had been having these headaches that would last for a couple of minutes and after would leave the side of his face numb for 5-10 minutes. So they did a mri and found 2 aneurysms, one on each side of the brain intertwined around the artereys, each at about 6.0. And told him he would probably die on the table if they tried to fix them. January 2015 they finally did the surgery on the stomach aneurysm,he came through with flying colors, but before the surgery they had to run a lot of tests on him, the 2 brain aneurysms have not grown any, but he now has a 3rd one near the brain and just his luck they have found one more behind his heart. My dad is 72, and when he was in his late 30's his blood pressure got so high, they don't know how he survived it and now think that the 2 original brain aneurysms were a result from that, over 30 years ago. He's still active and likes to do everything for himself and as he tells it, I'm not in the grave yet, so please stop trying to put me there to the family. I know it's not easy, but always try and think positive, worry is just paying the interest on a loan not due yet.
April 13, 2015 - 4:57amThis Comment
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