After the long journey to South Africa, I was surprised to meet my mother at the airport in Durban. It was great to see her and she had a coffee while I had my first Appletiser in years. Apparently my dad had insisted that she pick me up instead of staying with him at the hospital. She had just received a call from the doctor that the operation had been completed successfully, so that’s great news. He will be in the ICU for the next couple days so I won’t get to see him till tomorrow. Now his rehabilitation begins, but the first step has been a good one. I’ve been reading about heart surgery and it looks like it will be a while before he is back at full strength. While it has been a shock to realize that my dad had to undergo double bypass heart surgery, we can be relieved that it was caught before he had a heart attack and I’m grateful that in our day and age one can expect a full recovery from an operation such as this.

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