Update for those who were following:
My dad had his defribrillator put in. It went great and he did really well. They are setting it up for monitoring from New York and he should be able to come home tomorrow night.
The doctor spent 5 hours in surgery and did a lot of work while he was in there. He fixed an artery and installed the defrib with my dad awake! Gave him a local and kept him loopy, made an incision in the collarbone area and installed from there...so NO chest cracking. I was amazed. He said he had never done it before but was sure he could, researched it, talked to some other surgeons who had plus he had to deal with my dad who was refusing to have his chest cracked open again.
So...all is well so far. I finally got the final work about 10:30 am this morning and having been up since 6 am the previous morning and worrying all night, I collapsed on the couch until about 5 pm. hahahaha which means my sleep schedule is totally messed up as I am going back to bed now sheesh.
Nite ladies...