My other mother, Nancy

For those of you who may not know, my step-mom, Nancy had a heart attack Sunday afternoon. As my dad called to tell me, she was having one at that moment. He said she didn't look good after he'd come in from the workshop and took her blood pressure which was 195/110! Luckily they made it to the ER in time. She only said she had indigestion and didn't want to go... After they did the heart cath, the doctors said they normally would wait until Monday morning, but in her case, they were afraid to. All of her arteries were 90-95% blocked. There were 18 heart attacks waiting to happen, excluding the blood clot they found. The surgeon said he'd not seen a case like hers in a long time. What should have been a 2 1/2 hour surgery turned into 5 1/2 hours. Her team had to sew many veins together to make enough for the 5 bypasses they had to do. That's right a quintuple bypass!! Her lungs failed to oxegenate, so they had to leave her chest open until some of the swelling went down. Monday she lost 4 liters of blood, so they took her back to surgery to see why. They found a few blood clots and removed them and also put a couple more stitches in the veins to help stop the bleeding and closed her chest.



Yesterday and today have been much better. SThe bleeding has stopped but she is still on the ventilator and balloon pump in her leg to help relieve stress on her heart and help it pump easier. They are now looking at her kidneys and the stress on them from being on the bypass machine for so long and having to remove the fluid from her body. She may have to have a couple of treatments of dialysis to give her kidneys a break in the next day or so.



Please be praying for Nancy's strength to pull through this and also my dad's endurance to take care of her. I'll try to keep you posted on her progress. Thank you all for your prayers in advance!!