The human body is remarkably resilient TC. My grandad had something similar at 80 and pulled through even after triple bypass surgery. Im routing for you and your dad. I know its easy to say and you want to be there for your dad but make sure you look after yourself during all this. Hopefully you have other family members theres as well so this doesnt just fall in your plate. Either way best wishes.
any news
Hope your dad recovers, TC.
Best wishes for his recovery. If he's had some organ shutdown going on, that truly is a gray area for doctors to be able to make a prognosis. If and when that subsides and function is more restored, they'll probably have a much better idea. The best thing for now is to distract yourself.
My story now, for distraction's sake:
My dad had had several stents leading up to September 2012 when he's told me of having chest pain and I pushed him to check up with his doctor. At that time, it was determined to be time for bypass, and I think he had a quadruple.
I don't remember the exact timeline of everything, except he wasn't back home until January 17 of 2013, but he had aspiration pneumonia in rehab which eventually led to resuscitation and readmittance to the hospital, he had a staph infection along the way, lung issues to where he was ventilated long enough that they had to do a trach, and finally in December was able to start cresting the hill. He lost easily 50 pounds and was never quite physically the same.
We got almost nine more years with him due to his surgery. He was hospitalized in March 2021 due to ongoing complications of COPD and pulmonary hypertension - things were kind of up and down but he passed on 6/21/2021 from acute exacerbations of most of his conditions.
Im sorry youre going through this. I hope everything goes well.
Gonna throw on some classic rock today for him. I hope a little love in the universe goes a long way.
Sorry to hear that. I had an uncle with a similar story a few years ago. He had a heart attack but was still able to drive himself to hospital. They did surgery and put him into a coma. He never woke up.
Surviving emergency heart surgery happens. My brother drove himself to the hospital while having a heart attack and survived. My military mentor went to the doctor and had emergency heart surgery like your Dad had. Both survived.
The first 72 hours are very important. If he opens his eyes, talks, tries to get up, or begins signaling that's very good news. If he doesn't it isn't bad news but you'll be in for a fight. My understanding is that inducing a coma can help the brain if one recovers. Trust the professionals. Comfort the older people in your family that are there with you.
Prayer TC
Lost my Dad back in May 2023 from
cancer, he was at a point where QoL was almost non existent so it was kind of a blessing but still hurt like all hell
Very sorry to hear that. Hope you dad makes a speedy recovery.
I know how you feel. Over the last year and a half my dad who is 74 has survived prostate cancer, have a pacemaker put in and have cataracts removed from his eyes.
Once again good luck to your dad.
Damn, sorry to hear.
Hoping for the best.
Very sorry to hear this, and I'm wishing your dad the best.
I hope he pulls through TC, I'm sorry this happened. I can't imagine.
I hope he pulls through. My dad went through the same thing and it's so scary.
They probably don't have that answer, let alone to an extent they can make a certifiable statement.
Sorry to hear what you're going through.
Doctors try to make the right decisions. Hold tight to the rest of your family while the medical team does their thing. When my dad had pancreatic cancer, there was a bit of writing on the wall; and it's not so much of shrugging it off, but just knowing human nature is at its own work. It'd be nice to have the means to revival for anything, but that's not what we are meant for. The effort to make the best of the situation is all that can be asked for.
You don't, but you're not supposed to. Sadly that's part of processes like these. A lot of people have to go through that feeling of "uselesness", we all would like to control things when something bad happens to someone we love. Just know you're not alone in feeling like that, it's normal, and that in no way does it make you a bad person/son being unable to do anything, you just can't.
Hope everything turns out well, best of luck to you both.
Sorry to here that
I hope your dad makes a full recovery.
Wishing him all the best
Best of luck to you.
Best of luck to him, thats horrible to unexpectedly have all of that happen. Were pulling for you and your family has CEs love.
Whats something that always made your dad smile?
This is anecdotal but I've heard people are more likely to live if something like a birthday or holiday is coming up. Perhaps it increases their will to live unconsciously or something?
that's really scary to hear.
I'm hoping for the best for him and your family
My dad had a heart attack about 10 years ago and was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital. My mom pretty much saved his life with CPR until the ambulance arrived but they put him in an induced coma when he arrived at the ICU to preserve as much brain activity as possible.
He did pretty much fully recover but it was a scary time.
If he was still conscious when he came in that's a positive tbh.Yeah from what I know he was still conscious but they had to put him under
My dad just turned 67 in April and my mom in January. I increasingly worry about this stuff. My sympathies are with you, TC. I hope your dad is able to make a full recovery and lasts for many more years.
I'm sorry to hear that. It does sound pretty bad, but try to at least constantly remind yourself that he's in the best place he could possibly be (specialized hospital). You'll constantly be thinking you should be doing something, but it's out of your hands, and that's ok.
Sorry to hear about this man :(
My wife's dad had a very similar thing happen to him. I'm not going to lie and say it worked out for him, but I will say it sounds like you're in a very different situation. My wife's dad had a history of heart issues, multiple heart attacks, stroke history and didn't even remotely take care of himself and it still wasn't the heart attack or immediate afterwards that did him in.
Your dad seemingly doesn't have any of that, and stayed active. That is huge, not only just for how your body is able to respond but keeping your mind active enough to give you a chance.
This is one of the most common complications to open heart surgery. It's scary as fuck and you should always prepare for the worst, but everyone involved in his care is very well-versed in this kind of scenario. It's not the doom and gloom situation I know it feels like.
Induced comas are done to lower metabolism as much as possible, I don't think it's rare for someone who had this happen to them to be put into one at all.
Do you know how much time passed between the onset of pain and the surgery, and if he at any point lost consciousness or went into cardiac arest?
Oh man, I hope he gets better. I'm pulling for him. He's getting treatment so you're all doing what you can.
wish it didn't happen at all especially so close to birthday.
hopefully pulls through. definitely don't want to suffer the grief like i'm dealing with.
This is anecdote so don't take it was an absolute fact it's going to happen but my aunt had a heart attack several months back and required emergency open heart surgery and survived so it can happen and I hope it does for your dad.
Sorry to hear that. My dad turns 67 in August so stuff like this is always very sobering. I hope things take a turn for the better.
He's not dead yet so try to remain calm. I hope things turn out well but you should also probably prepare for the worse.
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Buc-ee's pays fairly normal
Most places weirdly low
Theyre all on Stackoverflow now.
linuxquestions.org
CJayC got 8 million for the sale.
Google says it's worth around $60k. So it's more likely that they're simply not worth the effort to sell . People on CE are capable of buying it outright. Fandom most likely feels it's worth the gamble to try and do something with it since drawing up a contract to even sell it would make the sale a waste of time. $60k doesn't move their needle much in any direction and if that's the evaluation, it's probably only making like $10-15k a year and trending downwards.
Most likely the data from experiments they're doing are worth more to them than any reasonable price. We're essentially viewed as a cadaver
At least a million bucks
This is a great list, youtube comments have been way to underrated
Reddit has plenty of angry weirdos, and I was going to expand on my thoughts but everything I had typed out I deleted because I don't know how to actually convey it.
How tf do you rank YouTube over Reddit
it depends on the subreddit you visit really, since the topic of the subreddit will draw in those who'd bother staying on.
Highest IQ on the internet was Yahoo Answers RIP