History

Tim had an aortic dissection on May 16, 2003, where he proceeded to have emergency surgery to repair his aorta. A portion of his aorta was taken out and synthetic material replaced that section. After the surgery, he had to take blood pressure meds, and get annual checkups.

At his last check up in January, the doctor sent him to get a CT scan, because it had been a while since his last one. When the CT scan came back, it showed some swelling around the old graft site. Basically, Tim had an aneurysm around both sides of the graft, and they thought it was affecting his aortic heart valve causing it to leak. The cardiothoracic surgeon felt that it would be better to have surgery sooner than later. They scheduled him to have surgery on April 14th, 2010.

The weekend before April 14th, Tim developed a sinus infection. He thought he might get better, so we didn't do anything about it. But on April 13th, the surgeon's office called and said an emergency came up and they wouldn't be able to do his surgery until April 28th. So now we just had to wait.

Also, during the month of April Tim felt it would be nice to go through the Psalms as his devotions, so he had been doing one Psalm for each day of the month.