Tacoma to UWMC
Saturday June 13, 2020 Chuck returned early in the morning and kept me company until the doctors arrived. The first doctor came in and asked a laundry list of questions to better understand my situation. He believed that the pain I was experiencing was due to costochondritis (inflammation of the cartilage in the rib cage). I predicted that it's my body signaling that something's seriously wrong. The cardiothoracic surgeon (CS) popped in afterward to explain how he would be requesting for a doctor at the University of Washington Medical Center, in Seattle, to accept my case because it was very complex. The CS explained that an issue was with my right subclavian artery. It should be coming off of my Brachiocephalic artery but instead it comes from my descending aorta and then over to my right arm. In order to have open heart surgery to repair the ascending aorta aneurysm the surgeons would need to move my right subclavian artery so it can provide adequate blood flow to m...