I apparently had a 20-25 year old calcified aneurysm in the popliteal artery of my right leg. My right leg has been problematic over the previous 25 years, but they attributed the swelling in my leg to the varicose veins I had in my right calf. They’ve done all kinds of tests on the leg over the years to diagnose the problem, just not a CT scan which was what’s required to see the aneurysm.
Here’s the thread where I describe what happened. I’ve had a medical expert review my chart and they tell me I have a $2-3 MM medical negligence lawsuit if I choose to pursue it. A 3 cm aneurysm is a near emergency and I should have been booked for an open leg bypass operation within a day or two of the initial consult with the vascular specialist. That they screwed around doing angiograms and a balloon angioplasty for 10 weeks was a “comedy of errors” that may have cost me the leg.
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