Aorta Dissection

The story of Svend

I was on my way to move from Copenhagen ind Denmark to Edinburgh in Scotland. The day before departure, I felt a terrible pain in my chest. When the ambulance came, they were not sure if my condition was something that needed immediate attention. In the hospital they found liquid around my heart and the medical staff there were alarmed. It was late in the evening and they couldn´t do anything about my heart condition in that hospital, and I was told to go to sleep in the little hospital. In the morning they saw that I had running blood somewhere in my body. I was therefore brought to a bigger hospital, where surgery began minutes after my arrival to the hospital.
I was lucky. My aorta had an dissection and if they hadn´t operated right there, aorta could have ruptured and that would have been fatal.
After surgery I had to recover for five months. I am now living like I did before and is going to move to Edinburgh in June.

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