Two weeks ago he went in for a routine oblasion (an invasive surgery to fix atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart beat, they go in through the femoral artery and do what they need to do).
After surgery and while in recovery my dad was bleeding out, the nurses were putting full body pressure on both his arteries to stop the bleeding. They got it controlled and he was stable. The left side of his groin started to get a HUGE hematoma, they expected a small one, but the size of this one was unreal! Early Friday morning (the 22nd of March) his kidneys had shut down and they couldn't figure out what was going on with his body, his hematocrit was dropping at a fast rate. They realized he was bleeding internally. The doctor rushed him into surgery and found that a branch artery had been severed. After a blood transfusion -4 units, 2 units of plasma, 48 hours of bed rest and a couple days of observation he was finally able to come home.
He has an open wound in his groin and to get it to heal from the inside out they gave him what is called a wound vac (a sponge goes inside of the wound than sealed off and the vac sucks out all the fluid from the wound). Because of this he had to have home health care come in and change the sponge and make sure it was healing correctly. Each change became more and more painful. On April 2nd (Tuesday) he left for school, about 15-20 minutes north of where we live. About 2 hours later as he was leaving school he started bleeding out! Not knowing what to do he called my mom and started driving to the emergency room. Yes, my dad was bleeding out of his femoral artery, driving to the nearest hospital and is here to tell us about it! Once he arrived at the hospital they gave him a blood transfusion-another 4 units and once he was stable they transported him to st. Marks hospital.
He is so lucky to be alive!
But it doesn't end there... The surgeon went in to see what the problem was and found that there was an infection that had eroded his artery, which caused the bleeding.
He went in for surgery everyday to change the dressing and to check the stitches. Everything had been looking so well that the surgeons felt he was stable enough to move out of ICU and to start walking. Tonight around 6pm he bled out again. They rushed him into surgery and put in a stent (a tube inside the artery). He is doing okay but he is back in the ICU. Right now I am not so sure what caused him to bleed out again, but I'm tired of death knocking on my dads door!!
My dad is my hero. My everything. I don't know what I would do if he were not here to see my children grow.
Please pray for him, pray that he will recover and return home safely and healthy. It is not his time to go, we need him here with us!
Dad, I love you so much! Please stay strong and continue to fight so that you may come home. I'm so grateful to have been raised by such wonderful parents. It's because of you and your endless support and love that I am who I am. I love you daddy!
Love your little girl.
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