Mr. Jim

For those of you in the family that know Mr. Jim (mom & dad's neighbor & friend) he had quadruple bypass surgery on Wed. Sept. 3. The surgery went really well and in fact what was scheduled to take 4 hours to do only took the surgeon a little under 2 hours. His heart doctor and the surgeon are both very pleased with the way he is progressing and are letting him come home today. I think that is remarkable. Only 6 days in the hospital after open heart surgery. It started after his physical. The family doc sent him for stress testing and what not and he went to the same doctor that dad has for that. They noticed what looked like a pinch in one of the veins so they were going in on Tuesday the 2nd to possibly put a stint in to open that vein. When the doctor got in there he found 4 almost 100% blocked arteries and an aneurysm. and you know how the rest of it went. The heart specialist told Jim that if he'd have waited, he would have had a massive coronary within 2 months and he wouldn't have survived. Thank goodness the man upstairs was watching out for him.