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Stay on the Sunnyside of Life

After complaining of chest pains while riding his bike home from work (which he's done rain or shine 10 miles a day, for 31 years), Claude went to the ER at Sunnyside hospital. Diagnosis? Turned out he'd had a mild heart attack (but very little damage to his heart, which is great!), but would need quadruple open heart bypass surgery - which shocked us. After 10 days in the hospital, he's now recovering at home. Thank goodness it didn't happen the previous week when we were diving up in the middle of nowhere, Vancouver Island, BC. And of course the whole event wound up being a mini-family-reunion! :)
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Aimee and Lucie in her skeleton costume on Halloween.
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Aimee and Lucie in her skeleton costume on Halloween.

  • Aimee and Lucie in her skeleton costume on Halloween.
  • Walking! They had Claude up and going within 2 days of surgery.
  • Aimee and Lucie visiting Poppy on Halloween. The heart pillow serves a purpose - each time the open heart patient gets up or lies down, or coughs/sneezes, they need to provide counterpressure to their chest by pressing that pillow tightly to their sternum.
  • Lucie tries out a new back baby carrier that Aimee picked up off Craigslist in Portland.
  • Glad to be back home - in the recliner!
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