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How did you know you had an aneurysm?
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How did you know you had an aneurysm?

This is Geoffry, an aneurysm rupture survivor who underwent an emergency endovascular repair. Here he discusses how he found out he had an aneurysm.

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I didn't know, I barely heard about the word or the situation. I didn't know until afterwards. But I had. What do you mean by afterwards? Well, I was wished up to the operation and I had no idea what it was for. I knew the symptoms were very bad, but it wasn't until I came through, and the doctors came round and they said I was very lucky to be alive and told me what I had. But I didn't know, although I had several falls, I didn't know I'd had that. I didn't sort of know about it before I had the tour.

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