Updates:
7:06 am
Here we go! Last consents and instructions! Goodbye kisses too.
8:36 am
Just got a page (I guess I fell asleep, sitting here in his empty room, waiting patiently-ish). They have now opened up Job's chest.
It will likely take them an hour to open his chest and clear away all the scar tissue from his last surgery before they can begin their heart repair work. Isn't that fascinating? It surprised me!
They no longer give updates throughout the surgery, but they page when they start and when they end, so we don't expect to hear anything else for a few more hours.
5:28pm
Job is out of surgery and recovering in is CICU room! He is stable and it sounds like the surgery itself went well.
It took a few hours longer than they were expecting and he has not been as immediately responsive to his repairs as they were hoping.
These next 24 hours will hopefully be "boring" as he's well sedated, but we expect tomorrow will be a difficult night for him. And then hopefully he'll be able to meet his goals in the coming weeks (it almost certainly will be a longer inpatient stay than we were wishing for).
We are so grateful and relieved that he made it through surgery! And we're glad to now look at this new stage of recovery.
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