Keeping a family in touch
June 9th, 2008, 9:17 am · Post a Comment · posted by Aaron
With last weeks political excitement — a primary election in California and finally an end to the national primary season — the thousands of political blogs that rant, rave and nitpick were busy.
But so was my dad. On Tuesday when many people were live-blogging about the California election or Obama’s historical delegate victory, my dad, from some where between a hospital waiting room and the house back in Ada, kept the family updated on our grandpa’s heart surgery one email at a time.
A classic entry:
Grandpa Hoort update 1:30 p.m.
Nurses just came out to tell us everything is going as planned. Mitral valve has been repaired. Aortic valve replaced. Getting ready to repair the tricuspid valve.
Here’s link to basic heart valve anatomy
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4598
I’ll be back when I have more info.
Dave
The whole family, cousins, aunts, uncles, got these updates throughout the day and still get occasional email blasts with more information about how our grandpa is doing.
The Internet, although filled with rants, raves and nitpicks, does have the ability to unite people across the country, as it did on Tuesday, whether you were waiting for election results or how grandpa was recovering.
And for the record, as of Sunday, he was up, taking 50 foot walks and doing well.
Aaron Aupperlee | city editor
