So. Wednesday morning dad had a heart attack. He went to the hospital and got a heart catherization and had a stent placed in one of the blocked arteries. Aparently, he has had heart pains for three years now, but it just got bad enough now to need to do something about it.
He came home on Friday, and is doing a lot of resting. meaning i see him with his feet up on the couch and his John Deer hat over his face. He should be off work for 4 weeks from work. hopefully, he actually follows the page after page listing of everything he is NOT supposed to be doing.
Aunt Dorothy did this piece of information for you (because i didn’t know either):
“I looked up “stent”, and this is a partial explanation. “A stent is a wire metal mesh tube used to prop open an artery during angioplasty. The stent is collapsed to a small diameter and put over a balloon catheter. It’s then moved into the area of the blockage. When the balloon is inflated, the stent expands, locks in place and forms a scaffold. This holds the artery open. The stent stays in the artery permanently, holds it open, improves blood flow to the heart muscle and relieves symptoms (usually chest pain). Within a few weeks of the time the stint was placed, the inside lining of the artery (the endothelium) grows over the metal surface of the stent.”
hmm. i am still not to sure i get all that, but still.
Dad being home and healthy is enough for me.
