Dad's heart attack

If you haven't heard by now, Dad had a heart attack Saturday night. He also fell prey to the common denial involved in heart attacks and insisted it was just indigestion until Monday morning when he finally got to the Stony Plain Hospital. They saw him inside 5 minutes, and he was shortly on his way via ambulance to the U of A.

What they initially determined was that there were 3 major blockages - 2 at nearly 100%, and a third at about 95%. This meant a triple bypass. Click here for a description of the surgery on WebMD. Fortunately, he was in pretty good shape, so the doctors decided it wasn't an emergency and that they would wait to schedule the surgery until this morning.

Today's Developments

They have since decided to wait on the surgery and let him recover a little more. Apparently - as long as he's stable - the longer they can wait for the bypass surgery, the better. It gives the heart muscle more time to recover from the trauma of the actual heart attack before it has to endure the trauma of the surgery. The surgery itself is VERY common and nearly routine. Apparently they do as many as 6-8 a DAY at the U of A. The risk to dad is so low, it's negligible - 3%.

As it stands now, he's stable and in the Pre-Op Cardiac ICU (5G3, room 10) until his surgery, when he'll go to the Post-Op Cardiac ICU for anywhere from 2-5 days. He may or may not wind up in a general admission ward where anyone can see him before they send him home. We'll just have to wait and see.

HA!HA!HA!

A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband when, suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.

"Careful," he said, "CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful. CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"

The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"

The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."