Hello to everyone!
I am Alejo, Turbodave's son in law. I 've traveled with my wife (Dave's daughter) from Pennsylvania on the 26th to help with all the errands related to the aortic replacement.
It was a long and complicated operation but everything went quite well. Our biggest concern was the fact that the operation involved stopping the heart and lungs, chilling Dave down to 18 centigrades, stopping the heart for a few minutes, to crank it up again.
All went better than well, and he is doing better than most of the other patients in the same floor. All in all, Dave was in pretty good shape - all things considered - due his motorcycle riding, camping with the clampers, and overall farking around the FJR. (This thing is as heavy as some Euro cars!!!)
All limbs working!, eye hand coordination working well, balance as normal.
Lungs need to reeinflate after being crumpled like paper bags during the surgery, but he has a pretty strong upper torso so he will be ok.
His voice is weak due some nerve damage inherent of the type of surgery, and we will now more or less in 90 days if he will need more treatment.
I can always get him a bullhorn ...
I've been firing up all the stable of bikes and doing a little riding myself (his orders) so they can be as ready as possible for him to move them around and firing them up as soon as he goes back home.
I've been going to the hospital every day, and he is in a really good mood and looking forward to catch up with some riding as soon as possible.
Thank you for your good wishes, concern, and sense of humour!
Alejo
