This is Chris' story of living with and receiving treatment for an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Here he discusses his overriding experience of undergoing treatment for an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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I would only just say, just going back to the short periods after the surgery, while I was recovering, I was very lucky not to feel sick, I think, from the drugs. I don't think I've ever really had a problem with that. But there was one time when I got quite a big kind of lump of pain killing drugs through the epidural that I felt, wow, that was, I think it was through the epidural, but it might be through, I think it was into my bloodstream, which made me feel quite, you know, my heart felt quite a little bit racy. And then after that, I was getting a little bit, I was hallucinating a little bit because they just gave me quite a big dose of painkillers. But I mean, it wasn't particularly scary. It was just a bit weird, really. But I mean, the overriding sense of my experience experience was that it was, it was, I was afraid in the run up to it, but that the actual experience was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be because of the excellent care that I had and the skill of the surgeon. And I've, since the surgery, as soon as humanly possible, I have had, you know, commenced and am nearly finishing on a six and a half week course of radiotherapy because the two were, you know, the two, as I mentioned earlier, the two conditions were kind of contradictory or, you know, not mutually convenient. And I think, you know, the advice that I had about the aneurysm was really good and it was fantastic and it was a scary bit of surgery but it was fine, you know, I came out of it feeling, wow, I mean, thank God for the advances in surgery these days and with good pain management and excellent care, actually the experience was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be, be. I feel it would be. So it's very positive. It was a very positive experience, to be honest.
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