question: I m writing a story/personal memoir---my stepfather died in 1995. I believe he had something like a femorial arterial hernia (?). He passed out one day and when they took him to the hospital they operated and it burst while on the operating table, I guess, and all his blood gushed out before they could do anything. Does that sound like the type of condition he might have had and what could have happened back then? Thanks.