to keep you all updated:

my dad's surgery was successful. he is of course only in the beginning stages of recovery, but he is doing well. we are so blessed to live in a time and place where we have doctors and medicines so readily available. it is awful to think that my dad might have been just days away from a heart attack...and for that matter, by all logic there's no reason he should have escaped having one thus far. but the Lord provided so abundantly, as He always does. Praise God!

goodnight loved ones...i'm so tired.