Stephen came home from the hospital on Thursday afternoon. Wednesday night was sleepless for him. When the open heart surgery was done, he was placed on a blood thinner - they were not able to ween him off of the blood thinner before surgery yesterday, thus the blood wouldn't clot after the surgery. He had 15 pounds of pressure on his hip all night long!

He was pretty exhausted, so I just let him sleep today. The doctor wants Steve to work hard, exercise and get back to work so he can see how much daily life/work and stress affects the success/failure of the heart function. Hopefully this was just a mechanical failure and it has nothing to do with overworking! So, today I am letting him rest. Tomorrow I will put him back to work!