When we left Ken yesterday he was feeling good (well, relatively speaking), eating, talking, moving around, etc. I was preparing to leave for the hospital this morning this morning at 7 am when the phone rang. It was Ken with the news that his heart had stopped during the night - Mine almost did too when I heard that news. We both went over there and were able to have a conference with both his heart surgeon and the "electric engineer of heart surgery", Dr. Fred Kusomodo. (yes, Fred). He explained that the electric system had shut down and they needed to insert a pacemaker to prevent a recurrence.
They took him to surgery at 1:00 and he came out at 5. He was out like a light. The doctor told us he did fine and everything would be ok - so now he has a "back-up" just in case it should happen again, which he felt was very unlikely.
When we got home, our friends Cindy and Bob had prepared a delicious dinner for us! Welcome sight!
I am using Ken's PC which is not easy for a long-time Mac User!!!
More tomorrow.
Mary
They will keep him in the ICU a couple more days.
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Yipes! Close call, and too close for comfort. Poor guy. At least he got immedite attention. Guess that's what ICU is all about. He told me he was going into surgery at 1pm, but thought it would only take 2 hours. Wonder why it took four instead? You must be a wreck, Mary and Bill! Thanks for all your standing by...and for your blog entries.
Ken:
It's Saturday afternoon and I hope you are recovering well from your last tune-up.
I think you've created enough excitement for all of us now! ...so we'll be quite happy if you have a boring recovery without any more cliff-hangers.
Speaking of cliff-hangers, I can't help but reflect back to our hiking adventures of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion. ...so, if you can, take your mind back to the day we hiked the "narrows" in crotch-deep 45-degree water...what an adventure! http://www.zionnational-park.com/images/albums/index15.htm
OK...now you have to get well so we can do it all again! My hiking boots are waiting!
Jeff
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