{"id":610,"date":"2005-07-02T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=610"},"modified":"2005-12-31T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T15:37:49","slug":"complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/complications","title":{"rendered":"Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dad&#8217;s back in the hospital. He&#8217;s been (dry) coughing pretty badly ever we got him home after his heart surgery at the end of April. He&#8217;s also had some alternating fevers in the last month-to-six weeks. We took him for CAT scan on Thursday, which revealed an abscess in his lung. He also has this weird tennis-ball-sized lump of hard tissue at the top of his thigh, right where the scar begins from where they took one of the veins for his bypasses.<\/p>\n<p>His surgeon took one look at it Friday and admitted him back into the hospital. Looks like he&#8217;s been fighting an infection ever since surgery. Being a tough guy, he kept ignoring his worsening condition, but his girlfriend noticed that he was burning up last week, and got the ball rolling for this current round of treatment. Saving his life for the nth time.<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s going into surgery later today, where they&#8217;ll drain the lump in his thigh. They&#8217;ll get him on a serious load of antibiotics so that the abscess in the lung will get zapped before it spreads to his heart. Everyone (except Dad) sounds pretty optimistic about this. Dad&#8217;ll be in the hospital until Tuesday (7\/5) at a minimum. I&#8217;ll write more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/andre2005\" target=\"_blank\">dadblog<\/a> as the situation warrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad&#8217;s back in the hospital. He&#8217;s been (dry) coughing pretty badly ever we got him home after his heart surgery at the end of April. He&#8217;s also had some alternating fevers in the last month-to-six weeks. We took him for CAT scan on Thursday, which revealed an abscess in his lung. He also has this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/complications\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Complications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-9Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":519,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/movin-on-up","url_meta":{"origin":610,"position":0},"title":"Movin&#8217; on up","author":"Gil","date":"April 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Dad got moved from the ICU upstairs to the regular cardiac ward today. 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Ru had his surgery today, and Amy e-mailed me this update: Dr. Raginski said Ru came through surgery well and is just starting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3950,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bad-news","url_meta":{"origin":610,"position":3},"title":"Bad news","author":"Gil","date":"May 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Rufus got attacked by a neighborhood dog yesterday evening. He's having the first of two surgeries today to patch up the two gouges in his rear left leg and put in a drain. The second surgery will be in 3-4 weeks. 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