Whew. Well a very long day is now almost over, thankfully. This morning Shawn's father had open heart surgery. We originally thought that he was having a triple bypass, but his cardiologist decided that since his fourth artery was 60% clogged they would try to d a quadruple while they were in there, hopefully saving him a trip to the cath lab later on.
So we were up early this morning. (We even had to wake Madalyn up- thats how early it was!) We were able to make it to the hospital in enough time to spend about half a hour with him before his surgery. Then we waited in the OR waiting room until about 1030 when the baby had had enough. So we left for a few hours and waited for the phone call that he was out of surgery and everything went successfully. I think they finished about noon and everything went extremely well.
He is currently in ICU and will be there until tomorrow. The Respiratory Therapists were hoping to have him extubated by this evening, which will be nice! We went by there about 5 pm and were able to see him for 15 minutes, which was about enough time to rotate through and say hi. But it is definitely a relief to know that the hard part is behind us and that he is healthy.
Thank you for all your prayers and support. Shawn and I greatly appreciate it.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Breathing a Sigh of Relief
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3 comments:
Still lifting you all in prayer- the surgery may be behind you but there is still a long road of recovery for Ed. Just know we are here for you, whatever you need.
Love you!
So happy to hear the good news of a successful surgery. We'll still be keeping him in our prayers.
Keep you all in our thoughts...cherish all beautiful gifts.
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