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Hello,
Hugs to all of you (!!!) for your loving support in my previous thread before I went down to Louisiana to be with my family as my Dad fell ill in the hospital over 2 weeks ago.
http://valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18656
Dad died on November 18th, shortly after they performed surgery to replace his porcine valve with another one. His prosthetic valve endocarditis, which had gone unsuspected and undiagnosed by his cardiologist, was the worst the heart surgeon had ever seen in a living person
Other details he gave about the state of Dad's valve and heart were just devastating. Although he told my mom after surgery that Dad had a 50/50 chance, of what he didn't really specify to her, he pulled me and my sister aside and told us best case scenario was that Dad would live another week, and certainly never leave the hospital. When we went to see Dad after the surgery, one of the nurses pulled me aside, and gently told me that we had only about 24 more hours, and to do what I could to prepare my mom. He coded twice after surgery. In the end, the wonderful staff left my mom, sister and me alone in the room to be with Dad. It was sooo nice to have him to ourselves for a short while, to talk to him (even though he never woke up,) about him, and amongst ourselves.
My Dad was such a loving, kind and gentle person, we miss him horribly!! We'll be organizing a memorial at a later date, where we hope to celebrate his life, and our life with him. He was the family historian, took such beautiful photographs, slides, 8mm, reel-to-reel, all sorts of media, worked for many years compiling all the family geneology, had started an autobiography filled with stories of his youth in rural Georgia... He was also a musician and woodworker. It really seems unbearable that he is gone, but somehow we have to bear it
Thank you again for this wonderful group.
Christie
Hugs to all of you (!!!) for your loving support in my previous thread before I went down to Louisiana to be with my family as my Dad fell ill in the hospital over 2 weeks ago.
http://valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18656
Dad died on November 18th, shortly after they performed surgery to replace his porcine valve with another one. His prosthetic valve endocarditis, which had gone unsuspected and undiagnosed by his cardiologist, was the worst the heart surgeon had ever seen in a living person
Other details he gave about the state of Dad's valve and heart were just devastating. Although he told my mom after surgery that Dad had a 50/50 chance, of what he didn't really specify to her, he pulled me and my sister aside and told us best case scenario was that Dad would live another week, and certainly never leave the hospital. When we went to see Dad after the surgery, one of the nurses pulled me aside, and gently told me that we had only about 24 more hours, and to do what I could to prepare my mom. He coded twice after surgery. In the end, the wonderful staff left my mom, sister and me alone in the room to be with Dad. It was sooo nice to have him to ourselves for a short while, to talk to him (even though he never woke up,) about him, and amongst ourselves. My Dad was such a loving, kind and gentle person, we miss him horribly!! We'll be organizing a memorial at a later date, where we hope to celebrate his life, and our life with him. He was the family historian, took such beautiful photographs, slides, 8mm, reel-to-reel, all sorts of media, worked for many years compiling all the family geneology, had started an autobiography filled with stories of his youth in rural Georgia... He was also a musician and woodworker. It really seems unbearable that he is gone, but somehow we have to bear it
Thank you again for this wonderful group.
Christie
