{"id":2346,"date":"2008-10-05T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2008-10-05T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:23:38","slug":"open-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/open-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Heart Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in New Jersey, seeing family.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday my dad had a 7 hour open heart surgery&#8230; aortic and mitral valve replaced and a double bypass. Friday he needed to have a pacemaker installed, which is apparently a common complication of double valve surgery. He came home from the hospital yesterday feeling very tired and &#8220;beat up&#8221;. Today, after some rest he was feeling much better. He was walking around the house gingerly today. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>30 years ago he had open heart surgery, the one this week was #3. Way back, he was in the hospital for 3 weeks, was brought home in an ambulance, and needed to \u00a0convalesce \u00a0for more than a month before getting back to his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in New Jersey, seeing family. On Tuesday my dad had a 7 hour open heart surgery&#8230; aortic and mitral valve replaced and a double bypass. Friday he needed to have a pacemaker installed, which is apparently a common complication of double valve surgery. He came home from the hospital yesterday feeling very tired and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}