Grandpa Ferguson!

Well last Friday my grandpa Ferguson went in for open heart surgery, it lasted 5 hours which is longer than normal but they did do 7 bypasses!! It was definitely a suprise, for one he is the best at exercising for the age he is at! He does an hour in the morning and an hour at night, either swimming, biking or walking! Second he has never had a health problem in his life! So I guess at 83 something was bound to happen!
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Anyways he was released from the hospital today and seems to be doing really well! He said he hasn't felt any pain as of yet so that is really good! The first few days he was on Dopamine and it made him hallucinate and I have to say they were so dang funny the things he would say from his hallucinations! He had us laughing the whole time! Some things he said were:

-2 golden trumpets hanging on the wall
-Head coming down a slippery slide
-Mannequin with flowered swimsuit
-12-15 pussycats in a ball
-Beverly(his wife) bending over uncovered
-Clark(his great grandson, who lives in Texas) standing in the doorway
-Group of people sitting in a room and the people would change from time to time
-Diana(his daughter who is white) as a black woman
-Huge man with long bushy hair eating while watching a track meet
-Wig came off a woman on tv
-Motorhome coming down a hill and then went off the side of the road

So as you can tell he had some interesting things go on that were pretty dang funny! We are happy he is home and in a good recovery so far and looking forward to a full recovery here in a few months! He is tough!Here he is with grandma! He could hear us at this time but couldn't talk or open his eyes yet!

If any one knows my grandpa Ferguson not really a guy for affection! So we had my sister give him a kiss on the forehead while he couldn't do anything about it!!! :)

All these pictures are of him right out of surgery! He looks a lot better now and a lot more life like!!! He was hooked up to so many tubes and monitors it was crazy! but each day they slowly started taking them all away! By the last day there he was off them all! I was suprised how fast they had him get up and moving! After the surgery they had him sit up then sit in a chair and the following day they had him walking!!! They say they have to move that fast so they know if everything is all right with his 'new plumbing'!