It started on Thursday morning my dad was taken to a local hospital he felt dizzy and was very pale. At 10 pm on Thursday we got a call that dad was being transfered to another hospital he had a aortic disection and needed imediate surgry. The surgeon made no qualms that this was risky surgery and even if he made it through the surgery he would have have a long recovery. He was in the operating room for nine hours and made it through pretty well. Now its moment to moment a nurse is with him 24/7 til he recovers. My family are all running on cat naps and caffee, praying for the best and dreading hearing the phone ring.