User:Astrid.muschalla

'LETS START A DIARY to reconstruct the events FOR DAD so he can read this anytime he wants to stay connected' We can all contribute here:

March 16, 2012 Astrid's summary to date:

my Dad has been in the hospital in and out of ICU basically fighting for his life, for 7 weeks now. He caught a virus from a previous hospital stay which infected his stomach and then the heart. But it was initially misdiagnosed. It ruined the aortic valve and at the n’th hour (2.5 weeks ago), the top surgeon in the country accepted him in Toronto to do valve replacement surgery…he had only hours to live and was completely emaciated and was slowly suffocating to death. It’s been a horrible time for him and we are all taking turns to stay with him. Right now there are complications and he is just being very closely monitored. The doctor says if all goes well, he will be in the hospital for 2 months minimum. It’s very hard on all of us to see him suffer, especially Mom who is with him every minute she can. He's still connected to tubes and they have been investigating why he can't talk. Now it turns out his vocal chords have been permanently damaged by heart valve surgery.