Please Send Up Prayers!

My grandfather went in for a heart catheterization today. His doctors have been trying to figure out what caused his problems last month where we almost lost him. Trinity wrote about it here.

It was scheduled for 2:15 this afternoon and he had to be at the hospital at 12:15. I met them there so I could be there with my grandma while he had this procedure done. I had all 3 of my kiddos with me and we decided after they took him back for the cath. that we would go down to the cafeteria and get some lunch. As we are finishing lunch we hear over the loud speaker "Code blue, cath lab, Code blue cath lab, Code blue cath lab". My grandma and I just looked at each other. She said "that scares me" I said "yeah. pray pray pray". I didn't want to say anything to her, but my heart started racing and I felt as though I was going to lose the lunch I just ate. I was very scared, to say the least. I immediately started praying "God please don't let it be him."

We decided to go back up to the waiting room and my grandma tried to find out from the lady at the reception desk (who I will refer to as R from now on) if it was him. She said she didn't know. We didn't know if she was just saying that or not. But we sat anyway. The kids were wanting us to play their games with them, but we were not in the mood for games. I told them sternly "not right now" and things like that, but I didn't want to say anything to scare them. Gma went back up to R to try to get more info from her. She kept saying she had a really bad feeling that it was him. She told R "if you know it's him, please just tell me." R said she thought it might just be him. But they were sending a chaplain down to talk to the family.

We sat nervously waiting. After a while, R came over and said that he was still in procedure and that it didn't sound like bad news. We felt a bit of relief but still a little nervous. A few minutes later, R came back and said she wanted to take 2 adults back to talk to the Dr. in a conference room. Fortunately a couple of my grandparents' friends came to sit with us and were there to keep an eye on my kids. I had a bad feeling because usually the Dr. will come out to the waiting room to talk to the family. As we walk back with R toward the conf. room I saw a man in a suit that looked like a chaplain standing right outside the door. My heart sank. We went in the room and sat down and the man in the suit introduced himself as, none other than, the chaplain.

The head surgeon came in to talk to us. He told us that it was indeed my gpa who they called code blue on, however they were able to resuscitate him and he was doing better. They found quite a large blockage and put in 2 stints as well as some balloon thing that will make it so his heart doesn't have to work so hard. They said he would be in critical condition for at least 48 hours. Around 6:15, my hubby came straight from work and took the kids home and I stuck around with gma to make sure he was going to be alright (and her). Trinity and G and my dad and my other grandma and her sister also came to visit. When we all (except gma) left around 9:15, he was stable. His blood pressure and heart rate were much better.

What a long, stressful day! I'm sure there is more that I'm forgetting, but this is long enough already. Please just pray that he will make a full recovery and not have this problem anymore. Now that they know what caused it, pray they will be able to fix it.

Thanks Trin and G for the subs and diet Pepsi!