Open infrarenal aortic aneurysm repair

Okay, whenever you're ready, would you like to tell us about your experience in your own words? Right, what did I have done? This is going to be brilliant. Can you ask him some questions? Yes, what procedure did you have done? I had... He had... I've gone completely blank now. I had an aneurysm of the eye water and he had a repair. Okay. It was discovered accidentally, he was experiencing pain in his lower groin and he went in to have a scan for that, I think we should be in the wrong position here, would you like to come up on there with him, yeah with you, so he went in for this scan for this pain in the lower groin. You want me to start again? Right. He had a repair. I can't get up here. It's short. That's alright. Stay there like that. How's that? He had a repair. He had an aneurysm of the aorta. This was found accidentally when he went to have a CT scan for a pain in his lower groin. And it was then found that he had this aneurysm. We had to ... We were just about to fly out to Port Chilthorpe, and we had to cancel that holiday because he couldn't fly. Apparently, he can explode in air or under pressure. He was due to have the operation in ... April the 24th was the date he was given, but in March, he experienced such terrible pains in the groin that the vascular team told me to take him into some areas CT scan. He was then admitted to a ward for observation, but the following day Mr. Jaffa did an operation. He was in intensive care for less than 24 hours. Then he went into high dependency again for less than 24 hours, was then admitted to a ward and he was out of hospital in less than a week. And since then he's coming along beautifully. Did anything unexpected happen? No. All the procedures were explained to us fully. The pre-care was wonderful. We saw three different people and there was a Michael, I don't know his other name, but he was absolutely incredible. He told us every single thing that was going to happen. So no, everything had been explained. We couldn't fault them. I've got the last question. The only thing I was shocking was being in A&E for eight hours. We were told to come up for a CT scan and we were told that the vascular team would tell CT we were coming in. When we got there at St Mary's we hadn't got the paperwork, the paperwork, and so we had to wait in A&E for eight hours. But in the meantime while we was in there I was surprised how many stabbings come in at night. It was shocking. Frightening. Frightening. Is there anything you'd like to recommend to a patient who's going through the same thing as you? Just do what you've been told. I had to lose weight before I had the operation, so I had to walk four miles every day, which I'd done. I lost a stone and a half. Just get yourself a bit more fitter than you normally are to have the operation. But otherwise, yeah, it was all right. Brilliant. Is there anything else you'd like to add? No, I thought all the staff and Mr Jaffa was excellent. Couldn't fault them. He even liked the hospital food. And the food was very good. Which doesn't say enough for my cooking, does it? No. Okay. Brilliant, thank you.