How old is your dad, and -- other than his heart -- how's his health?
My dad is 75. He has diabetes, but is otherwise very healthy. Walks 3-6 miles a day and is very active.
His good health -- and especially his high level of activity -- is an enormous point in his favor. I can't emphasize that enough, really. (Damn 3-6 miles A DAY? The dude makes me feel like a garden slug. Go Kat's dad!)
Bypass is invasive, true. But the advances that have been made -- and are continually being made -- in cardiovascular surgery are astonishing. I won't say something as silly as "bypass is practically just a routine maintenance procedure," because it's not.
What I *will* say is that your dad is lucky that, if he has to have it at all, it's at this point in the timeline of medical advances. It's scary to think about, I know. Especially when you just heard about it out of the blue. You need some time to process it.
He sounds like an ideal patient -- healthy and active -- and will probably do very well and recover completely and in a fairly timely manner.
There's nothing I can do from here. And I can't leave here until end of June. Gah.
I don't mean this to pooh-pooh you, but -- even when you're there, it feels like you can't do anything. At least, that's how I felt, sitting in a waiting room, unable to do anything but the crossword puzzle book.
But I understand -- you want to see him in person, talk to him and tell him face to face that he needs to recover quickly and then NOT scare the hell out of you ever again.
It sounds like he'll come through it just fine, and the surgery will be a huge help to him. That's probably small comfort, but I hope it's *some* comfort.
I don't drink at all, but even I know wine comes in little bottles of just one or two servings. Why don't you bottle people/single drinkers invest in those?
I'm picky about what wine I drink, and the wines I like aren't available in the single-serve bottles.
Occasionally, I get one of the bottles that's half the size of a regular bottle of wine, and that works for me. But, eh. I just don't drink as often, and when I have the chance to take wine to a friend's house or something, I do.