[Stuart]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

This is the case with any aortic aneurism. The surgery is highly risky in of itself. The Aneurism needs to reach about 6cm diameter before the risk of surgery is outweighed by the risk of tear in the aortic wall. Being within 30 mins of a hospital is largely irrelevant. If it tears you bleed out into the chest cavity in seconds to minutes, all you can do is monitor it by ultrasound regularly and decide when to operate.

True, my dad died of this. The pathologist told us that once the Aorta ruptured, he would have lived for maybe 10 seconds.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Hi saaf_laandon, l think l should win the 'sarcasm award', as each thread l write, comes with that bit of sarcasm, but l can take it, l try my best to write a thread with interest, but when l read an article, and l put it on forum, and make a comment, in some parts of the country, the same story could be written differently, ie, l didn't know that he had the op on NHS, l read he had just had it 'done', but my idea is, everyone is entitled to there opions, and that is why there is this forum,.

The problem is that that article doesn't make a link between the op and the money beyond saying he won the lottery. It doesn't say whether he had the op done privately or on the NHS.