Rudy Mendoza Open Heart

Hi everyone, for those of you who don’t know my dad Rudy Mendoza (City of Woodlake Mayor) has been at Kaweah Health Hospital for 3 weeks now. He first came in with trouble of breathing and oxygen level low. To find out he had had a “massive” heart attack. His heart was only working 10% and he had build up fluid around his lungs. On Monday April 11, he went under for a three bypass open heart surgery. Everything went well and smoothly. He was recovering well and doing “really great” was all the doctors would say. Later on that week Friday night around 9:30pm we received a phone call telling us to come back to the hospital “immediately”. Once at the hospital we were told that my dad’s heart had stop. He apparently had another heart attack. They were able to get him stable but had to put in a breathing tube, and a ballon pump. We also found out that he had more fluid around his lungs and his kidneys are not doing to well and had to start diálisis. We are going on three weeks now being in ICVICU.

Jacklyn Mendoza