I thank all of you for the prayers for my son's father-in-law! As I noted in the first post, his open-heart surgery was successful. However, he has been in pain since the surgery, and is retaining fluid. I don't know why they can't give him pain medication. Please pray that he gets through this! He couldn't sleep last night because of the pain! It is very discouraging for him and his family. Thank you!
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I didn't get an answer back from my son last night in time to post, but his report was that the pain was more manageable for most of the day. The doctors say they don't know what caused the initial cardiac arrest. They will be putting in a defibrillator next week to hopefully keep him from having a cardiac arrest event in the future (technically, it wasn't a "heart attack" because he didn't have part of the heart muscle die from lack of blood flow, but his heat went into fibrillation, for unknown reason, which means if not shocked back into a normal rhythm in time, can result in death or brain damage. Fortunately, his event happened in a church gym, where they had one of those automated defibrillators. He had been working in a stream by his house in the country the day before, so it could have been MUCH worse! Thank you again for your prayers! I'll provide an update after the defibrillator installation.