Here is an abbreviated interview with Ron two years and a lot of work later to to get motion to his left side. This is just a short interview to see how it works on the website. The full and longer version will be here soon. This is just a tease of what Dockrider Television is all about.
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As you may or may not Know, Ron became the recipient of an Aortic Dissection, not willingly of course.
Aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. Aortic dissection is a medical emergency and can quickly lead to death, even with optimal treatment. If the dissection tears the aorta completely open (through all three layers) massive and rapid blood loss occurs. Aortic dissections resulting in rupture have an 80% mortality rate, and 50% of patients die before they even reach the hospital. If the dissection reaches 6cm, the patient must be taken for emergency surgery. The surgery to repair a dissection takes about 20 hours. The patient would be in a drug induced coma for 3 days.[1]
So it is like a pipe made with 3 layers and the inner layer becomes loose from the second layer, like the glue sucked and layer migrates away from the wall.
This was to be fixed. But during surgery, some of the plaque found its way up to the brain and bamo! It stopped the flow of blood to a side of the brain. Sadly, Stroke time...
But news is good as he is on a slow road to recovery. We wish him well.
Here is a Windows version to play