so this will be a short entry.
Last night I went off to Crown Point so I could be there for dad’s open heart surgery today.
Against my better judgement I put on Wedding Crashers because mom wanted to watch it. Got to bed at midnight only to wake up at 4:30 this morning. We got to the hospital at 5am for a visit to dad before they wheeled him off to prep at 6am. The surgery started at 7:40. It took 4 hours. Jean, Bobbie, Deloros and Jim all came by to hang with us in the waiting room. At 12:15 they were ready to wheel dad to ICU. They said it will be 30 minutes before we could see him and that he would be awake later. We went to lunch then came back an hour later. Dad was awake but still had his breathing tube. We waited longer. Once he got the tube out he could talk. He seemed pretty good regardless to what he went through. He talked and seemed to be clear thinking. On a scale of 1-10, he rated his pain at 00. I guess the drugs were working there. He said he didn’t feel too bad. He said he was glad I was there.
I left Crown Point at 6pm. I got home at 8. Time for bed