The story of a miracle!!! Fathers day weekend my dad left with nick to go fly fishing up in Spanish Fork canyon they took their waders and waded about 3 miles up a river in the raging hot sun! They spent the day fishing and only having a few snacks after a fun day they decided to call it a day and head back to the car. My dad made it all the way back to the car without a problem other than being hot and tired , but normal! As they were heading home my dad started to feel tingling in his extremities and Nick said he looked very pale and my dad and Nick decided something was not right so Nick rushed my dad to the American Fork hospital and they took him in and they said he was having a heart attack and they rushed Nick and dad in an ambulance to Utah Valley Regional Hospital. By that time I was at home with the kids and Eddie was gone to Youth Conference but was on his way home. I was organizing Spencer's clothes and the kids were napping and I noticed a call from Kesha and answered it and I thought Kesha was laughing but she was crying and she told me that dad had a heart attack and she and my mom were headed to Provo to the hospital. While I was on the phone Eddie came home and I had just lost it so we grabbed the kids and dropped off Spencer with Jeanette and took Sadie with us because she wanted too!! I could not believe this was happening when we got there dad was in surgery getting 3 stents put in. After the procedure the Dr. came and got the family to come in and they told us that dad had had a severe heart attack and had 3 stents put in and was very lucky that he was not camping overnight somewhere because he would not have made it!!! I consider it a miracle that Nick was able to get him to a hospital so quickly to they could rush him in!! I am so grateful for my dad and all that he has done for me!
Happy Fathers Day dad we all went to visit him at the hospital and then went out to dinner at brick oven afterwards. We missed the barbecue that we had planned for all the dads but very grateful we still have our dad with us!
After my dad had spent a couple of days in the hospital Utah Valley Regional and was feeling better my mom kept waiting for him to call her to come pick him up it got to be about 3 o'clock and my mom was thinking she was either going to leave to visit my dad or bring him home. While she was waiting dad pulled a typical brad move and walked in the front door of the house and about gave my mom a heart attack herself. She looked at him and said how in the world did he get there and he looked at her and said I rode the bus, we couldn't believe the hospital released him without a ride home!!! He got a ride from the hospital to the bus stop and then had a couple of bus changes and then a walk home from 45th south but proud that he made it home! We are just glad he made it safe but we realized this event had not changed dads humor!
A few weeks after the stents were put in the cardiologist decided that dad needed to have quadruple bypass surgery. My parents told us kids on a thursday and dad had the surgery done on the next Monday. The surgery went really well but after the first day there was one set back they thought he had blood around his heart so they had to go in and reopen him and it was just fluid so they drained it out and closed him up, so he had to stay in ICU at St. Marks a little longer but my dad is a champ. I spent my lunch breaks with dad at the hospital since he was just at St. Marks which was soooo nice but I didn't take any time off work which was really hard while he was having the surgery. When he got transferred to the regular hospital he was not looking great he was on too many pain killers and was very out of it. He Stayed in the hospital until the next Sunday when they released him, my dad suddenly seemed so much better he just needed to leave the hospital, who likes staying there anyways!! He is doing very well and is up moving around and has been to lunch with my mom and and also some of his friends. He now has some awesome scars but hopefully a healthier heart than all of us!
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