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My fathers thoughts on having high risk surgery
I talk about my father and what his thoughts were when faced with a difficult choice. He had a symptomatic juxta-renal aneurysm and was being offered complex high risk surgery.
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Your father had an aneurysm that went up to right up to the kidney arteries and I think your father was not as strong as he was maybe you know 20 years ago. Correct. So the options given to you were relatively limited in terms of you know what he could tolerate and what was possible. Yes. What did your father think at that time? He actually was a lot more brave than I think any of us. He was like I want to have surgery immediately right he was quite ready and he said the main risk can be I may be lose kidney and what other side effects could there be after surgery obviously he asked that question. He had a good quality of life he wanted to live he has a family around him. He is incredibly passionate about life as a family are so he didn't even think honestly that much about risks etc he just asked you know can I is there disability risk and we asked that question and we were told that it probably was up to 15% and he didn't even think of that. Chance of dying yeah but if we did nothing then the chance of dying was 100% so not even a choice right so he you know wanted to take back. Absolutely yes we all did.
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