Thursday June 24th Papa went in for surgery to replace a torn meniscus in his left knee. During Preop on Wednesday the cardiologist noticed that Papa had a heart attack. Before surgery could be done tomorrow he needed to have a stress test. Since Papa couldn't do the physical stress test he was going to have a chemically induced stress test. This was scheduled for the morning. He wasn't scheduled for surgery, as long as everything was okay with the stress test results, until 4:45pm EST. I was surprised at the lateness of the surgery considering there was a possibility that the surgery could last 6 hours.
On Thursday morning I received word that everything went well with the stress test and Papa was going in for surgery. Two hours later I received a call that Papa made it out of surgery and that he was doing well. The surgery wasn't nearly as long as they expected. I don't know if the speed of the surgery had anything to due with the fact that Papa has had both of his knees replaced or not.
The concern during surgery was how the anesthesia was going to effect his dementia. There was great concern that Papa was going to be very confused like he was in February. There seemed to be no complications from the anesthesia.
On Sunday he should be transferred to rehabilitation if all goes well.
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