Thought processes we went through when my father developed a symptomatic aortic aneurysm

Dougal, you brought your father to see us at St. Mary's with what we call a symptomatic aneurysm, something that was tender, causing him pain, about to rupture. Confirmed that on a scan. What were the sort of thought processes you were having at that point? Obviously you get quite scared when you hear the word rupture, so I wanted a second opinion. opinion. That was my first thing that that that came to my mind and but I was told that I didn't even have time for that. So what options were given to you at that point? Actually initially no option was given except to keep him in the hospital and until he gets stabilized and then we were gonna be discharged. So that was the initial feedback and then after a couple of of other doctor visits, including yourselves, thank you, that we found out that there was another option around surgery, and open surgery, because we didn't have time for endovascular. And we looked into it, and honestly, there was not a ton of option around life or death, so we went with the open surgery. Okay.