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. . . her uncle is the only one who had an aneurysm as far as I know.

That's really the scariest thing about PKD. You can have it and not know it at all until something bad happens. My wife's dad, who passed years before she and I ever met, was one of the pioneer patients of PKD treatment. A hospital in Michigan offered him surgery to see if they could make progress to treating patients by a surgical procedure--it wasn't even a even a transplant (this was the latter 1950s).

He went, had the surgery, but died because someone gave him the wrong type of blood after the surgery.

The last my wife saw of her Daddy was waving to him as he pulled away from their house for the long trip to the airport to go to Michigan.

I had an ultra sound of my kidneys about 3 years ago because my blood pressure shot up with no obvious cause. At that point my kidneys had no cysts. Hoping this genetic gift passes me by, although I got the high LPa and high blood pressure from her.

She doctors at the mayo clinic, they diagnosed her, told her that aneurysms are caused by this, but don’t scan for them? Her life is incredibly busy and stressful, but God seems to want her here.