You are welcome, though I don’t think I was much help. I did have a conversation with a head and neck surgeon this morning about something else. I asked him about this. He said that while he does some vascular work as the nature of his profession, it’s not a specialty for him, further that things that involve the carotids specifically require someone that is specialized in this. That he doesn’t do stenting even though it is pretty straight forward, as his institution has vascular specialist staff.

He had a question though, and that was how did they determine it was a clot, and if it was one, how did they decide that it was stable and going to stay put, making it ok to live with it. Those seem like really good questions given a stroke in your history. I hope that you will pursue this sooner rather than later to get some answers and resolution to this. I find your doctors advice to be at the very least cavalier. Please come back and tell us what you have learned. I would like to learn from your experience myself, given my own situation, and in order to help others. B