Welcome to our group Tatyana! I have an aneurysm at the LICA bifurcation. It looked like a blackberry not a blueberry with over 2 dozen daughter sacs and either mom or one of the girls got mad at each other and it popped. So I’ve learned about aneurysms since then. 
. In all honesty, you don’t want to be in my group if it can be avoided.
Had my stent put in on the 4th try and it seems to work, interestingly it’s in the ACA and covers the aneurysm, thus the bifurcatio. @seniorlady just had a very cool stent put in and didn’t need coils! You should look it up, it’s pretty neat. I have the Neuroform Atlas Stent and thank the folks who invented it every day. How awesome is medical science?! When I first started here back about 10 years ago, the stent seemed to be the FRED but there’s many more now which is a great thing for us with difficult locations.
Sounds like you trust your Neurosurgeon and I think that makes all the difference. I trust mine as well. She’s not at a major medical facility, more a medium sized with the medical college attached, so lots of medical students/residents/fellows. Folks will suggest you go to a large hospital since they have more experience. Many will get more than one opinion. If I could have, I still would have picked WFBH, because I’ve been there for clients at Brenner’s and I like them. My other choices would have been Charlotte, BH doesn’t like to drive there or Duke which is on the other side of the State!
I count myself fortunate I didn’t have to have the stress you’re going through. But please learn relaxation breathing, I promise whatever type you learn, if you practice it constantly so it becomes part of you without thinking it will help you the rest of your life. Box breathing is all over the internet, so easy to learn. The way I learned back in the ‘70’s was to inhale slowly through your nose down to your diaphragm, hold it for slow count of five, exhale fully, repeat. It’s the style I taught to my clients for many years. It can control your BP, gives your brain more oxygen and when I had male clients, I’d have them make a fist and do the relaxation breathing, they couldn’t keep their fist tight which always amazed them so they’d practice more🤣. Yoga, Tai Chi, walk around the block, or park will all help reduce anxiety as well. Focus on something else, our lives are not controlled by our aneurysms, we are more than that! I allow myself a set amount of time to acknowledge my rupture and how it has changed me. So not ignoring it, but just not allowing it to control my life if that makes sense.
Is your neurosurgeon going to do an angiogram first and then another for the repair or does he just want to go in and fix it? When mine installed my stent during the pandemic no less (for some reason I always think of a mechanic on this) I didn’t need the diagnostic angiogram, the imaging told her everything she needed to know and hardware installed! For the follow up diagnostic angiogram to see how the stent was doing, they went through my wrist (radial) and not groin (femoral) the group here told me how much easier it was and boy were they correct! Either way works so it’s up to the Doc and your body. They take a machine to check the radial artery to see if they can use it. They may have on my femoral but I think they just locate it, can’t recall.
We’re here for you, we can all share our experiences. I hope many more members come and talk with you.
. Because of the damage to my brain, I’ve got a bushel full of rules that aggravate me but I abide by them for the most part as much as I can or I frustrate everyone and then come the lectures. Before my stent, I couldn’t really understand the lectures and I didn’t think their rules were good and my oppositional self retailiated.