Son of Mothra
Veteran XV
So my dad had a stress test done last week, originally his physician or whoever didnt urge him to get it, but he went on his on whim, good thing he did. The results came back yesterday, said he had a blockage, him and my mother went in 5:30 this morning for what i thought would be a simple surgery with Stints(?) the things they use to expand the arteries when they're blocked. So i'm sitting in guitar ensamble around 12:30 when a pass comes for me, and i just thought "Shit"
Met my sister in the office who wasnt sure what was going on. She works part time at the hospital they were at, my dad came to her room when she was with a patien and told her to call some people and pick me up, at which point she freaked out of course.
We get to the hospital right before he was about to go into the OR, the morphine had kicked in
My mom told me he had 3 blocked arteries, 2 of which were 90%+ blocked. Doctor told me he was a heart attack waiting to happen. I was rather fine with the idea of him having the surgery but my sister was freaking out.
About 2 1/2 hours after the incision was made the doctor came into the waiting room, telling us everything went well, gave some relief to me. He told us they did a total of 4 bypasses, he thought he'd need to do 5. Around 6:30 we were allowed to see him post op, he was still under the anesthetics so there wasnt much to do. He should be moved to the general rooms or whatever tomarrow morning, gonna go see him then. He should be able to come home sometime early next week i think, sucks that he won't be here for christmas but oh well.
Heh a year ago my father's brother had a quadruple bypass, but that was after he had a minor heart attack. Hopefully i won't be in trouble when i get older
Just figured i'd post this on TW
Cliffs:
Dad had stress test done, abnormality found
Thought a simple procedure was to be done today, turned out 3 blocked arteries
Wound up doing 4 Bypasses
Met my sister in the office who wasnt sure what was going on. She works part time at the hospital they were at, my dad came to her room when she was with a patien and told her to call some people and pick me up, at which point she freaked out of course.
We get to the hospital right before he was about to go into the OR, the morphine had kicked in
My mom told me he had 3 blocked arteries, 2 of which were 90%+ blocked. Doctor told me he was a heart attack waiting to happen. I was rather fine with the idea of him having the surgery but my sister was freaking out. About 2 1/2 hours after the incision was made the doctor came into the waiting room, telling us everything went well, gave some relief to me. He told us they did a total of 4 bypasses, he thought he'd need to do 5. Around 6:30 we were allowed to see him post op, he was still under the anesthetics so there wasnt much to do. He should be moved to the general rooms or whatever tomarrow morning, gonna go see him then. He should be able to come home sometime early next week i think, sucks that he won't be here for christmas but oh well.
Heh a year ago my father's brother had a quadruple bypass, but that was after he had a minor heart attack. Hopefully i won't be in trouble when i get older
Just figured i'd post this on TW
Cliffs:
Dad had stress test done, abnormality found
Thought a simple procedure was to be done today, turned out 3 blocked arteries
Wound up doing 4 Bypasses
