Good morning everyone. As you know I haven't posted much this month as I was going to be taking our daughter back to college and then travel onto Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, TN where my dad had been transported due to a heart attack. I arrived on Sat, Jan 6 to give my sister and our mom a break from being in the hospital with my dad while he had his quadruple bypass and 2 valve replacements. They left that night to go home to Cleveland, TN to get some rest for what we thought would be 2 or 3 days.
However, my dad took a turn for the worse and coded at 2:15a.m. Sunday Jan 7. The doctors and nurses worked on him many hours after that last heart attack and also shocked him numerous times. The doctors took him back in to have the balloon surgery in hopes of helping his heart not work so hard and soon to be on to more recovery. After the balloon surgery, my dad's heart was not responding like the doctors had hoped and told me to call my sister and mom to come back. They did get back in time before the doctors said that they could not do anything else for my dad. So we asked for him to be removed from life support. My dad would not have wanted to be left on life support.
We said our goodbyes to my dad who was 75 years old, and he passed away at 10:11a.m. Sun Jan 7. I will miss him dearly, but I know that he is not suffering from arthritis, no more back pain and definitely not any chest pain.
As I posted on Facebook, out of our suffering and loss of losing our dad, he was an organ donor so in hopes that our loss was someone else's gain at life.
Until another post.....Blessings.
