Date of Aortic Dissection: 12 April 2007
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I was driving home from work when I felt a gurgling in my chest and a light headed. No pain. I called my son and told him about it but that I thought I would just go home and he insisted that we go to the emergency room. I took an aspirin because I thought I might be having a heart attack. It was about 7:00 at night. At the emergency room I was x-rayed and I had a CT scan and a young resident found it and called Dr. Edward Owen who happened to still be in his office which was next door to the Methodist Hospital.
He looked at the scan and told them to tell me I needed surgery. I asked if I could wait until the next day and he told me that if I waited I would not live. He did surgery at 2:00 AM and I was in the intensive care for 5 days and had a complication-I was bleeding internally and they had taken the tubes out and it was causing me to not be able to breath-my son told them and they had to do a second surgery. I stopped breathing and had t o be revived. After 25 days I was able to go home and after 2 1/2 months I went back to work. I worked for almost 3 more years and retired this past December 2009.
I am able to do everything I did before the incident and just continue to be monitored and get CT scans.
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