Bad news
Hello all. I haven't updated in awhile. Today, my grandfather passed away shortly after 9am. He put up a very good fight, but ultimately was not strong enough.
To catch everyone up, he had a quadruple bypass a couple weeks back. There was a terrible infection after the surgery, and his sternum (breastbone) turned to mush. The surgeons decided to remove the ENTIRE breastbone. (a surgery we had never heard of and did not think was possible. Apparently rare, very dangerous, and extremely painful and hard to recover from) He had that surgery on Tuesday at 12pm. He was doing well until 3am this morning. He was bleeding from a hole/tear in the heart. He went into emergency surgery and everytime they repaired the hole, as soon as the heart began to beat again, it would tear and he would lose much more blood. We were notified just before 9 that the doctors would not be able to resuscitate him and he passed away shortly after that.
We spent all day in Denton with my grandmother. The services are not until Wed July 5 at 2pm in Denton at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church. His name was Jim Powers. He will be missed very dearly. We thank everyone for their continued support and prayers. Please keep us all in your thoughts and hearts.
Love,
A
To catch everyone up, he had a quadruple bypass a couple weeks back. There was a terrible infection after the surgery, and his sternum (breastbone) turned to mush. The surgeons decided to remove the ENTIRE breastbone. (a surgery we had never heard of and did not think was possible. Apparently rare, very dangerous, and extremely painful and hard to recover from) He had that surgery on Tuesday at 12pm. He was doing well until 3am this morning. He was bleeding from a hole/tear in the heart. He went into emergency surgery and everytime they repaired the hole, as soon as the heart began to beat again, it would tear and he would lose much more blood. We were notified just before 9 that the doctors would not be able to resuscitate him and he passed away shortly after that.
We spent all day in Denton with my grandmother. The services are not until Wed July 5 at 2pm in Denton at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church. His name was Jim Powers. He will be missed very dearly. We thank everyone for their continued support and prayers. Please keep us all in your thoughts and hearts.
Love,
A
posted by Amy | 8:52 PM
2 Comments:
Oh sweetie! That must be so rough! I am so sorry, and you, your grandmother and entire family are in our thoughts and prayers!
I'm truly sorry about your grandfather passing. We will keep your family in our thoughts and prayers.
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