pequeajim
Platinum Member
I want to share a moment of happiness with you all.
Back about a month ago, my wife and I went to a Life Line body screening center. They screen you for several “old people” type of illnesses, (as my son likes to say), one of which is an ultrasound of your aortal artery. Everything came out great for me except the aortal scan which turned up an aneurism.
This is the largest artery in your body and if it is ruptured or cut, well… Let’s just say that it’s been nice knowing you….
I must say that this shook me up a bit because having one of these, you never know what might rupture it. You have to take it easy the rest of your life and at 49, I was not looking forward to that!
I went to the doctors last night for a consultation about this. He advised me that I could live normally, but no impact sports, or vigorous exercise. Well, there went my Rugby (just kidding…). /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I do ride ATVs though and I was really afraid that I would have to say goodbye to that activity.
He wanted to schedule a CT scan right away to confirm the size. On the size of the aneursim, yellow flag is 3 cm, orange flag is 4-5 cm and red flag, (get to the hospital quick) is greater than 5 cm. Mine was 3.3 cm, so probably not life threatening right now; he wanted to know for sure.
I had the CT scan done today. A CT scan is a series of high resolution pictures of slices of your body, pretty cool!
Since my wife works at the Imaging Center where I had this done, I was able to look at the pics myself, scary! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Anyway, we were in the waiting room and the doctor comes up to us with a serious look on his face and I immediately thought that the ambulance was coming for me!
He paused and said those magical and wonderful words. “THERE”S NO ANEURISM!!”. “Nothing exciting to see there all!”
Phew, was I happy!
I know there were a lot of people praying for me over the past couple of weeks and I want to say thank you! This was a terrific Christmas present for sure!!
Never underestimate the power of prayer!
Jim!
Back about a month ago, my wife and I went to a Life Line body screening center. They screen you for several “old people” type of illnesses, (as my son likes to say), one of which is an ultrasound of your aortal artery. Everything came out great for me except the aortal scan which turned up an aneurism.
This is the largest artery in your body and if it is ruptured or cut, well… Let’s just say that it’s been nice knowing you….
I must say that this shook me up a bit because having one of these, you never know what might rupture it. You have to take it easy the rest of your life and at 49, I was not looking forward to that!
I went to the doctors last night for a consultation about this. He advised me that I could live normally, but no impact sports, or vigorous exercise. Well, there went my Rugby (just kidding…). /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I do ride ATVs though and I was really afraid that I would have to say goodbye to that activity.
He wanted to schedule a CT scan right away to confirm the size. On the size of the aneursim, yellow flag is 3 cm, orange flag is 4-5 cm and red flag, (get to the hospital quick) is greater than 5 cm. Mine was 3.3 cm, so probably not life threatening right now; he wanted to know for sure.
I had the CT scan done today. A CT scan is a series of high resolution pictures of slices of your body, pretty cool!
Since my wife works at the Imaging Center where I had this done, I was able to look at the pics myself, scary! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Anyway, we were in the waiting room and the doctor comes up to us with a serious look on his face and I immediately thought that the ambulance was coming for me!
He paused and said those magical and wonderful words. “THERE”S NO ANEURISM!!”. “Nothing exciting to see there all!”
Phew, was I happy!
I know there were a lot of people praying for me over the past couple of weeks and I want to say thank you! This was a terrific Christmas present for sure!!
Never underestimate the power of prayer!
Jim!
