Aortic Anuryism in men

Andomen??? I meant abdomen! (Predictive text issue!)

Himself had a routine scan 2 years ago. Normal.
Was told ‘if you don’t have the start of one now at your age (he was 67y at the time) you won’t be bothered by one as they are very slow growing’.

Mr B had a growing aneurysm for years. He described it as ‘a ticking time bomb’. It did indeed grow large enough for surgery and if memory serves me right, it was the position of it which necessitated open surgery. The waiting for news of the outcome of surgery was awful but he recovered well and had since played golf and cycled again.
That was at least 5 years ago. Sadly very recently diagnosed with heart failure caused by a clot. It’s hard to see how frail he has become and not to know how much recovery we can expect.

My FIL died of an aneurism when he was 71 he had already had the operation a year before and his GP thought it unlikely he had another.They operated a second time by some "new" method but he sadly died two weeks later .My OH had his scan last year when he was 65 ,I was very relieved there was nothing to see.FIL was a heavy smoker for over 50 years and they thought that could have been a factor in the condition,OH has never smoked