If soul searching, repentance and making your relationship right with your Creator are things you do on Holy Week, all came early for me this year. And now, it feels like I have been given a second chance at life.
It all began when my regular abdominal ultrasound showed a growing aneurysm in my aorta last year but decided to observe if it will grow and how fast. This year, they found out it was not only growing, but growing fast. A CT-scan confirmed the findings. The aorta is the main blood vessel that acts like EDSA, distributing oxygen rich blood to all parts of the body. I had to consult a cardiovascular surgeon on what to do next.
Technology was on my side. In the olden days, they would have to cut a patient up at the abdomen to make the repair. That means weeks or months of recovery. Today, they did two incisions on my groin, threaded a catheter through my arteries up to the aorta where they released several stents, a feat of precision minimally invasive surgery. The stents were tailor made for me in Singapore, based on precise measurements obtained from my CT scan.
What got to me first was the loss of control. Entered the hospital fairly healthy, yet I was confined to a 25-square meter room. For my own protection from hospital infection, they kept my exposure to the hospital environment minimal. Even the X-ray machine was wheeled into my room. My niece, a practicing pediatrician in Cardinal Santos, explained that they have a number of pneumonia cases so they are making sure as best as they can that I do not complicate my case with an infection.
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