Out of surgery!

At 5:25 the doctor reported on Daddy's surgery. He ended up doing a single bypass on the LAD artery rather than the double bypass he'd intended to perform (there must have been some miscommunication before that led to our belief that Daddy would have a triple bypass). The doctor found that the right coronary artery (the one with 100% blockage) had been closed for some time and Daddy's body had adjusted to living without it, so that artery was "a non-issue." The heart function is good, and there's no evidence that Daddy has had an acute heart attack. Happily, the doctors were able to perform the surgery "off-pump," meaning they didn't have to stop the heart.

Daddy will be asleep for a few hours. We won't know whether a stroke occurred until he wakes up, but the doctor sounded very confident and said that the surgery went well. The next 24 hours will be the critical period, but Daddy's in stable condition. All in all, it sounds like very good news, but please keep those prayers coming!