Phew... what a day.
Well, you may be wondering were I've been. Yesterday I spent the day in a hospital waiting room. Dad went in for a angiogram and possibly an angioplasty (after the doctors noticed a small anomaly during a stress test) and instead ended up getting a quadruple bypass surgery. It was, needless to say, very worrisome — he had several passages with 90% blockage and a few with 70 or 80%.
Going in yesterday he really didn't expect more than possibly an angioplasty (where they use a balloon to clear blockages), since it didn't even look like he had more than a blockage-in-formation. We are just thankful it was caught when it was — leaving it alone for longer possibly would have caused a massive heart attack.
At any rate, he's doing fairly well today. The hospital moved him out of ICU ahead of schedule, and he might be released by Monday, which is amazing, to say the least. While the toughest part is (hopefully) over, prayers would still be appreciated.
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RE: Phew... what a day.
Been there; done that. My father came out bypass surgery successfully about 5 years ago, and currently does the same things he did before, but perhaps more of it. I won’t lie and say he’s the greatest Christian Dad, but I’d sure miss him if he were gone.
God has been so gracious in making modern medicine advanced enough these days there’s every reason to think your Dad will have some years left in him.
RE: Phew... what a day.
Thanks Ed, that makes me feel a lot better.