My Pappy had knee surgery yesterday. On both knees. At the same time. He's in his late 70's. Oh, yeah...They think the stress of the surgery may have caused him to have a mild stroke. Nice. He seemed to come out of everything alright yesterday, even joking with Granny that he would be 6 inches taller now that his legs wouldn't be bowed out and he could stand up straight. He ate dinner last night and everything seemed to be ok, so Granny went to Auntie's house to spend the night so she would be close by in the morning. No problems, right? Right.
So, morning rolls around and I go to work, and I'm there like 10 minutes and my mom calls to tell me that she is on her way to the hospital because they moved Pappy from the orthopedic wing to CCU because they thought he had a heart attack during the night. Lovely. I asked Mom if she wanted me to come over there and she said no, that they wouldn't let me in to see him anyhow until they figured out what was wrong. She said she would keep me posted. Ok, no problem.
Around 2 she calls me back to tell me that the tests they ran on his heart came back fine and that he didn't have a heart attack...Thank God for that. But they didn't know what had happened...Evidentially, he hasn't woke up since last night for more than a few seconds at a time and he isn't responding verbally. He responds when they tell him to squeeze their hands or wiggles his toes when they scratch the bottom of his foot and stuff like that, but he hasn't spoken at all. Granny is all worried...Mom and Auntie and Uncles are worried...Grandkids are all worried. Docs say it's ok...His heart tests came back fine, his brain scans are coming back fine...No explanation for what is going on. Exhaustion, one Doc says. Exhaustion? WTF? I realize that he is an old man and that kind of surgery can be very stressful, but to sleep for almost 24 hours with no pain medicine after having both of your knees replaced?? C'mon...I'm no medical expert, but somethin' ain't right.
I'll keep ya'll posted. Keep us in your thoughts.
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