Thanks so much for the prayers and well wishes! We really appreciate it. It's been a very long day. It started at 4:00am. We made it to the hospital at 5:00am and finally to his room by 5:15. Dad was in good spirits and he was glad that we were all there. They took him into surgery at 6:30am. Then the waiting began. Waiting is hard, very hard. About 12:00ish we finally heard that he was out of surgery and had done well. He was in recovery. Eventually the surgeon came out and told us that he did a triple bypass. (initially we thought it was just going to be a single but the artery "branches" were also blocked). We eventually got to see him in the ICU and honestly it was terrifying to see him all hooked up to the machines. He didn't look like himself at all. The machine was breathing for him. He had a central line and wires and drains everywhere. They tried a few times to wake him up but he wasn't ready they said because he was trying to pull his ventilator tubes out. We did get to see him open eyes and he seemed to be in terrible pain. It was an awful thing to see. We spent most of the day at the hospital and then they kicked us out of the ICU telling us they may try tonight to take out the vent...but when I called a few minutes ago they said that he did wake up on his own and was less out of it...but failed one of the test. They said he's stable and doing well just not ready yet to have the tube out. The good news is they said he responded and understood what they were saying she said they put him back to sleep...so for now he's resting.
I am finding it hard to sleep even though I'm exhausted.... I managed to get some more blogging done. Course I have several more to go but I did make some progress.
I just wanted to thank everyone again for the prayers... please keep praying. He's going to have a long recovery and I think tomorrow will be a pretty rough day... We're so lucky that they caught this blockage when they did. It was 90% blocked and a heart attack waiting to happen.
Much Thanks,
Laura
I am finding it hard to sleep even though I'm exhausted.... I managed to get some more blogging done. Course I have several more to go but I did make some progress.
I just wanted to thank everyone again for the prayers... please keep praying. He's going to have a long recovery and I think tomorrow will be a pretty rough day... We're so lucky that they caught this blockage when they did. It was 90% blocked and a heart attack waiting to happen.
Much Thanks,
Laura
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