My sister and I went with our dad in the elevator this morning, and he and the nurse got off on the fifth floor at around 11:15 am for his surgery.
Around 4:15 pm, the surgeon summoned us to one of the rooms of the "day of surgery lounge" to inform us that the surgery went well. They did a triple, not a double, bypass but didn't deal with the valve issue since doing so would have put him in for another hour of surgery. With his kidney issues and being 83, they didn't want to push it. The surgeon related that he's probably had this valve issue for "fifteen to twenty years" and is doing fine with it. He also said that other than the "major blockages," Virg's "tissues looked good" for his age. I don't what that means, but it's sounds positive for his health in the future.
I was nervous going back there since they told us that the surgery would take close to six hours, and if the surgery started around Noon, then four hours didn't bode well. I'm glad to be wrong.
He'll be in the ICU for a couple of days and will then move to the heart care section of the U of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
We haven't got to see him yet, but we're going back over at around 9:00pm when visitor hours open back up for an hour and a half window.
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We didn't get to see him until about 10:30 when visitor hours were closing. There were issues with his blood pressure, and he was bleeding out some. Hoping things are much better in the morning.
He's doing better today. They took the breathing tube out late in the morning.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me to look for updates here. Sorry I bothered you!
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