The Ramble

My Dad's Triple Bypass Surgery

My dad had a light heart attack starting Saturday night. He didn't tell his wife about it until Sunday, when the pain had went away, but when he went to work Monday morning, the pain came back. He had a buy from work take him to Magnolia hospital where they found no immediate problems on his ECG.

I went to the hospital that night to see him and he seemed fine to me and was up walking around in the room in his normal clothes, laughing and joking. I figured that he would be going home the next day and he would be treated with drugs, as he has been since his heart attack in 1992.

The Cardiologist that recieved his test results decided that he needed to go to Texarkana to recieve a angiogram to determine the nature of the blockages that caused the problem. Again, I figured that he would get the angiogram and then be released to go home.

The day he had the angiogram, Linda called me and told me that he was going to have to have triple bypass surgery the next day because two of his arteries were 99% blocked and one was 75% blocked. He went into surgery Thursday at 2:30 PM and got out of the OR at 7:30 PM.

His surgeon told us that Dad came thrugh the procedured well.

Today, Dad is up and moving around some. He is able to eat today and is being moved to a normal room tonight. Christa and I will be going to see him tomorrow evening. I'll post more, then.