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Patient Completes Appalachian Trail After AAA Repair
September 13, 2012
In 1965, Kenneth Bordwell started what became a lifelong quest to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, a 2,180 mile trek through the wilderness that passes through 14 states between Georgia and Maine. He thought that dream was dashed when at age 67 and about 100 miles shy of his goal he was diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), a life-threatening weakness in the wall of the aorta, the body s primary artery and source of blood flow.