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Best wishes for your speedy recovery, olddude.



I nursed my mom after two different aneurysm repairs. The first was an abdominal surgery and it was quite a long recovery. She had a huge incision that got infected, she took weeks to come out of the post-anasthesia confusion.

The second was three years later It was near her heart and they went in through a blood vessel in her groin and repaired it that way. She had to have a preliminary surgery before the repair and they had to go back in afterwards to fix a small leak. So - three procedures in all with the second aneurysm.

But the recovery from the second repair was much easier than the first. The technology had advanced so much in just three years. It was really amazing the difference between the two. No infections, no confusion. It was much better. Mom was in her seventies and she lived for two years after that and died from an unrelated cause.

Hopefully, you will get the full benefit of the new procedures, olddude and be back in the swing of things before long!