Those are the same issues my husband is dealing with. In May he had his 2nd stent. When they did the cath prior to the stent they discovered the abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was not cleared to return to work until the aaa was handled. He was scheduled to see a vascular surgeon in July. One morning in July he awoke with severe abdominal pain, (one symptom they told us to watch for). I took him to the er. TOohey quickly did a ct scan and found it was his appendix. They waited to do surgery until they had platelets because he it's on Effient for his stents. He ended up in icu and was in the hospital for 9 days because they couldn't so the bleeding. He ended up with 3 units of platelets and 2 whole blood. While he was there he suddenly started having diarrhea and blood in his stool. Cultures showed he had a yeast infection from all the antibiotics. He also had developed a hemmorhoid. Hed then had the aneurysm repaired August 31st. Surgery went great, no excess bleeding and he was sent home on the 1st. Overnight of the 2nd to the 3rd, he started vomiting blood. Back to the hospital. He was admitted for 4 days where they found he had yeast again as well as many ulcers that were bleeding. Last year, after his first stent, they discovered he has Hashimoto Disease, causes an underactive thyroid. Normally this would cause weight gain. Dh is very thin and getting threw thyroid hormones balanced caused him to lose more weight. He is 6'1" and is down to 145 lbs.
With all of this, I think he will be eligible. Oh, and he also has an arthritic knee and now arthritis in his back. Last year was the first time he had been to a doctor since he got out of the army in 69.
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