A woman from Central Ohio spoke about the situation with an aortic aneurysm

An aortic aneurysm is a rupture that can cause massive internal bleeding and is usually fatal.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. When it comes to matters of the heart, Jane Bithard is a woman who speaks from the heart and from personal experience.

“Never ignore any unusual symptoms,” she said.

In 2018, Beathard was decorating her house for the Christmas holidays and felt a sudden pain.

“It wasn’t indigestion, it started in my chest and went up both sides of my neck, both sides of my head and out the top of my head,” she said.

If not for her friend and neighbor Connie Dwyer, Beathard would have gone to bed. Instead, she was rushed to the hospital emergency room, thinking it was a heart attack. It was an aneurysm.

Dr. Nakhush Mokadam, a cardiologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, said it was a fatal condition with a one percent chance of dying an hour.

“When the aorta enlarges or a blood vessel enlarges and becomes an aneurysm, it becomes thinner and can cause it to rupture or burst,” Dr. Mokadam said.

Surgeons put in 20 stitches to put Beatard’s heart valve back in place in a seven-hour lifesaving operation. She spent two weeks in the hospital and three months to recover at home.

She returned to her active life, including volunteer work at the hospital with her neighbor and friend Connie Dwyer.

It’s a journey she’s happy to be alive to share.

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