Sounding good Tom.

I have more stainless mesh custom fabricated plastic coated hose installed now than a hotrod flathead ford perhaps. This to make sure a discovered anurisim did not blow out.

It is a little over a month now since the operation. Although it tends to slow you down for a week or so at seventy one years of age.

The only restrictions on release where no lifting for five weeks and no sex till the doctor says okay. My wife will want me to follow the doctors orders hopefully.

What they did to me may be very expensive in the states. I hear rumours that the custom made plastic coated stainless mesh hoses are like new mercedes cars in cost there. The question in my mind is was the rest of my body unit worth spending this amount on?

There is no direct cost to me in Canada. There is still a cost shouldered by the taxpayers though. Plus my family in sales taxes paid dedicated to hospital costs. Nothing is free although I was not billed a cent or will be for anything.

One of the pre operative doctors told me some older enfeebled people decide that since it is a pretty easy death when it lets go. They decide not to have it repaired.

There are two ways to do the operation. One is more risky but does not require the expensive custom stainless mesh hoses and the recovery period is months rather than days. Also the chances of death from the other operation are statistically higher..

Assume this is an expensive procedure. At least nine people in the large room when they put me to sleep at eight in the morning and I only remember coming around at three in the afternoon . So I suspect maybe three to four hours perhaps for the operation.


The way mine was done there is no discomfort. They leave the spinal block fed by resupply for three days installed. You are also under general anesthetic as well during the operation.

So the only thing bad about the experience basically is the bad hospital food for the five days in there. Plus some scattered radiation skin burn from the equipment visualizing the hoses being fed in and secured. You could see the outlines of the mats placed to shield you from it as much as possible.

I have fully recovered pretty much and will ask the vascular surgeon when I see him on the 22 of May for a follow up. The details of doing that prostate blood flow reduction method you mentioned and let you know what he says.

There are four vascular surgeons at this local hospital. I do not believe they do common stent installation for heart attacks though. We have specialized heart attack people and places for that.

Well I just was cleaning out all the drawers on the computer desk. Time to go put all the remaining questionable saved stuff back into them.