Dad’s still in surgery. Mom, Jane-o, Harold, Ashleigh and I all went for a bike ride. \u00a0We rode about 20 miles from Meagan’s house where we are staying to my Aunt Sharron’s house (she wasn’t home, but we didn’t really have time to visit anyway), and back to Meagan’s house.<\/p>\n
As we got back to the house, we got a phone call from the folks at UW Medical Center. They said the surgery is going well, and they’re reconnecting his heart and warming him (and his heart) back up. Apparently, the surgery is done with low body temperatures and with the heart itself on ice to slow its use of nutrients and preserve the heart muscle as much as possible. The warming of the heart indicates that much of the work is done, and he’s being reassembled (for lack of a better term).<\/p>\n
In a few hours, we’ll head back to the hospital and stay in the waiting room until they call for us. \u00a0When they call for us, they’ll either give us more info or let us see him. When that happens, I’ll write more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They’re warming him back up now. He’s through the majority of the surgery, but has a few more hours in the OR before he’s released to the ICU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}