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What information did you receive after your procedure?
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What information did you receive after your procedure?

This is Geoffry, an aneurysm rupture survivor who underwent an emergency endovascular repair. Here he discusses what information he received after his procedure.

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Well, I haven't got a lot of information on how to look after it, but I've certainly got all the information a lay person like myself could absorb. I mean, I just assumed, what I was told, that there was a blockage in the vein or artery, and that's why I was in the situation I was. It's quite sobering thought to think I might have passed away the next day and not had the operation. That's what I was told. So I don't know. Well I'm sure it's true but it's quite a sobering thought at the time. but I haven't got anything in the future and I don't really know about what care I need to take, e.g. diet or exercise. I am having exercise, ladies are coming tomorrow to exercise. I'm a bit shaky on my legs at the moment. Largely I thought because of the operation I had with the replacement limbs but it got worse after that operation. In what way did it get worse? Because of my balance, yeah, I'm walking, as they say, they did tell me you must rest for a bit, you've had a very serious operation, you must take it easy, so I went out in the street with a stick. I found it harder to walk than I did before the operation, yeah.

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