hey bill,
sorry to hear about your wife. for what its worth i just had a quad last month, todays procedures are amazing. we were thinking maybe another stent(i have 3) but when i saw the doctors face i knew we were looking at surgery. so on feb 26 the surgery was done in about 2 hrs. i wake up a couple of days later and everything is text book perfect as far as recovery. today i saw the surgeon , he is happy with my recovery. i'm back to swimming, walking, driving. i know its scary, but these heart people are good at what they do. i had very little pain in my recovery . i had morphine
in icu for a couple of days (don't remember to much) then stepped down to darvocet half tablets. i had much more pain from my prostate cancer than this bypass. so stay close to your wife and hold her hand thru this my prayers and thought are with both of you. and maybe someday we be able to meet and exchange (what i call) war stories about our recovery.
god bless
dave