GO HAWKS!!!

Hi everyone it is Erin (as if you couldn't tell from the title of the blog!)


First and foremost....did you see that game yesterday??? I mean, that was SO amazing!!! I was at work and they had the Iowa game on and I was jumping up and down and yelling in the news room.

Alright, now to more important matters I suppose...


I talked to Laurie today and she said that this morning dad experienced an arrhythmia and it scared him a lot. However, the doctor said that those are pretty common and they adjusted his medicine so it doesn't happen again hopefully. Apparently there is a sac around your heart that prevents everyone else from not feeling arrythmias, but dad's was damaged during the surgery so that is why he can feel them now. OK, so I was a journalism major not a biology major, that is about as technical an answer as I can give...sorry!!


Besides having his chest ripped open a couple days ago, the other biggest complaint coming from my dad is the new "room" that he is occupying. Laurie describes it as a space and not really a room. He is sharing it with three other patients and there are only curtains dividing them so he can hear their TV's/conversations etc. So, his first request was ear plugs but they are not completely solving the problem.


However, Laurie said that she could see one of the other woman's scar from her surgery and Laurie said that dad's scar looks much better than this other woman's scar. I guess we will take whatever silver lining we can during this process...haha!


Also, they are going to try and get him to walk four times today. He does have a little fluid in his lungs and they aren't getting enough oxygen in them either. But he is really tired so walking is a pretty daunting task at the moment.


Alright, I think that is all I was supposed to update you all on! Talk to you soon!


Love,
Erin