Dad succesfully underwent a quintuple bypass this morning! The surgeon says that it went well.<\/p>\n
(Dad didn’t say anything, since he’s currently unconscious in the cardiac intensive care unit, but he oughtta be awake in a couple of hours.) Dad succesfully underwent a quintuple bypass this morning! The surgeon says that it went well. (Dad didn’t say anything, since he’s currently unconscious in the cardiac intensive care unit, but he oughtta be awake in a couple of hours.)Thanks again for all the support! (We’ll need it during his rehab\/recuperation)<\/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-524","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\/s4C7K-success","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":525,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-3","url_meta":{"origin":524,"position":0},"title":"Update","author":"Gil","date":"April 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was a lot better. 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Thanks again for all the support! (We’ll need it during his rehab\/recuperation)
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