Pictures of the heart

Here is the picture they showed us of his heart. The diamond shape area is where they put the stents. and as you can see it was 100% blocked and now 0% blocked and 70% blocked and now 0% blocked.

They did an ecocardiogram (sp?) on his heart yesterday to determine the damage to decide if they would put more stents in or do bypass surgery. The good news is the damage to his heart is mild. They say a good heart is around 55% and his is at about 50% and that that could be from the heart attack itself or the trauma of the stents and will get better on its own over time. But its obvious that he has to have something done to take care of the other blockages. And the Doctors recommendation would be that he is not a candidate for more stents and that he should have bypass surgery because of how many stents he would have to have and the danger of reconstriction etc.. Now they just have to decide how many bypasses 2 or 3.

So in two weeks he will meet with the Cardiologist again to decide when the surgery will take place and to have a check-up from this little trauma. But he is coming home today!!!!!

Great news! But we are going to have to bar him from the office as he is not suppose to go to work for the rest of the week!!!!! He said he was going to work tomorrow! Funny! I don't think so!!!!