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My dear father-in-law is currently in surgery — open heart surgery to repair his dissected (torn) aorta.\u00a0 And we are sitting in the hospital totally happy!
\nLester M. Dunning (initials LMD, aka L<\/strong>ucky M<\/strong>r D<\/strong>unning) has been healthy for 80 years, until eight weeks ago when he *thought* he hurt his back making a difficult shot on the golf course (tremendous shooting pain, etc).\u00a0 He’s been in and out of his doctor’s office since then, taking antibiotics, feeling better and worse but never quite normal.\u00a0 Something was not quite right with his system.\u00a0 He was always tired.\u00a0 He was losing weight.\u00a0 He was running a low-grade fever every other day.\u00a0 A nagging cough would not go away.\u00a0 Everyone was wanting for him to feel better, but no one could figure out the problem.\u00a0 Anxiety was running high.
\nFinally, his doctor sent him for a CAT Scan a couple days ago.\u00a0 Minutes after he arrived home, his doctor was on the phone with the results: “Go to the hospital.\u00a0 Now.”\u00a0 Turns out he’s been walking around with a dissected aorta, a condition that normally results in death – yes, death – in 90% of cases, usually within a few hours.\u00a0 Hours. And this man has been walking around w\/ the condition for two months!
\nAnd not just walking.\u00a0 WALKING!\u00a0 On his good days, he and Lois were still maintaining their two-mile walking regimen.\u00a0 He flew to Nova Scotia to visit Lois’ son.\u00a0 Everyone in the healthcare system who has heard this story says the same thing: “wow – you must be just plain lucky!”\u00a0 Statistically, he should be gone.\u00a0 Statistically, his walking around — and let’s not even talk about the flying! — should have killed him.
\nHis survival for this long with this condition is so unusual that several doctors have come in to examine and study him.\u00a0 This morning, everyone on the 15-person surgical team came in to the pre-op area to meet him before they took him to the OR — because they wanted to meet this man who is a walking miracle.
\nWith this much positive attention, is it any wonder that we was in an incredibly UPBEAT mood as they wheeled him away?\u00a0 The surgical nurse came down to tell us that he was laughing and joking with the team as they put him under to start the procedure.
\nSo, as serious as this surgery is (it doesn’t get more invasive than when they open your ribcage with a power saw!), we are THRILLED that he is undergoing this seven-hour ordeal. He is, indeed, Lucky Mr Dunning.
\nClearly, he has more work to do in this life.\u00a0 And we are pretty happy about that.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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