Preparing for the Heart surgery

Hey everyone, we are kind of  "On Call" for the heart valve surgery, they told us yesterday that if he doesn't do well over night they might have to do surgery this morning, and then today they said, "maybe tomorrow".  So its just a wait and see thing.  He is still on the ventilator, and will probably be on there until his surgery, which they are hoping to do on Monday, if he can wait that long.  His vitals are stable and when he wakes up he can communicate by nodding and small finger motions, we just ask yes or no questions.  Is hard for him not to be able to communicate, so when visitors or we come in and talk to him, his blood pressure goes up so we have been staying quiet in the room and we just try to get him to sleep.  Right now the Opdahl clan is here, Harlan, Barb, Grandma, the brothers Martin and Dennis.  Cindy left this morning, she had been here for a couple nights with Grandma, Rich and Diane were here also and just headed home today.  Its nice having all of them here, calming for us at least.  We are taking turns sitting in the room 2 at a time in the ICU and just being silent and making sure Dad doesn't need anything and in case any docs come in.  The sun is out a little today so thats nice, yesterday it was pretty gray.  But Ill keep you all posted on when the surgery is suppose to be, if he can make it til Monday that would be best, giving the brain more time to heal.  Im getting a little anxious for the surgery, just as yesterday was a reminder of how surgery is kind of nerve racking, and that was a relatively small one.  So just pray that dad will have peace awaiting the surgery and continue to grow stronger, and that he wont get to frustrated not being able to talk to us if they keep him on the ventilator til Monday.  Ill keep you posted.  love you all, keep on praying, praise God!  Aloha,

Katelyn