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I'm six to five p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM. I was diagnosed with a complex spasler tip and your brain aneurysm.

I followed up at Mayo Clinic. I had an angiogram, which confirmed that and everything.

The surgeon at Mayo recommended one course of treatment or to just keep an eye on it for a while.

But he wanted me to get a second opinion, which I did two weeks ago.

He referred me to one of the top neurosurgeons here in Phoenix.

They called me yesterday, his team called me and said at this time, they recommend monitoring it for a year and because that type of

surgery is very has a lot of risk so basically that's what I'm going to do but knowing that I have this ticking time bomb in my head is a little unsettling.

So I guess I'm looking for recommendations or advice on how I can not constantly think about it for the next year and go on with my life.

The only thing that comes to my mind to answer that question is when my husband, years ago,

I had sudden death and did not die because I got the EMTs and whoever, they're fast enough.

I started having violent panic attacks, And I was working and pretty much sole

support of the family. So I remember being on a trip to New York to promote the book I wrote.

And I didn't have to do that after that because you can go on, you can sit in a studio and it just goes

up on the TV shows.

However, they did it.

But anyway, so I am walking and all of a sudden the panic attack starts.

So I walk over and grab a pole.

And I just stood there holding on to the pole.

Because when you have a panic attack, you think you're going to die. Absolutely. It is clear to you that you're going to die right now.

So I'd stand there for about 20 seconds, maybe 30, and finally I said to myself, I have not dropped to the ground.

Guess I'm not going to die right now. So I kept walking.

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