I just talked to my mom tonight from St. Joe's Hospital, and she asked if I would give everybody an update. A brief history for anybody who is not aware: Saturday morning while having coffee Carol had some pain in her chest that didn't go away. She ended up going to the emergency room, and after about 24 hours of tests and observations the doctors determined that she had had a small heart attack.
They did an angiogram this morning and found two small blockages in small coronary arteries. So the angiogram turned into an angioplasty procedure. The doctors widened both of the blockages, and from all reports this should help matters. Mom will be meeting with the doctor tomorrow to discuss what he saw and what it means long term in more detail, so I don't have a lot more info to share at the moment. But the news sounds good, and other than being a little crabby from lying flat on her back for 8 hours (required after an angiogram) she sounded pretty positive.
Right now the plan is that she'll be staying at St. Joe's tonight and tomorrow, and then will get to go home on Wednesday. St. Joe's has a feature similar to the Bemidji hospital where you can email a patient, and that functionality can be found here. So if you have a minute or two send an email, I'm sure Carol would enjoy receiving and reading them.
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