Update

Well, we were hoping that at this point, Joe would be on the other side of this. He was sent home Friday evening and had quite the welcome committee at the house. We spent the evening just sitting around and talking... Early bedtime... A picture-perfect night for our patient.
His sleep was restless, though. He was up early with chest pains and shortness of breath. We chalked it up to stretching pain, from his stent, and decided to play the day by ear.
My mom and I took the kids to their soccer games--Sam Knudson scored a sweet goal!-- We came home and Joe and I took a romantical little walk around the block. This was a huge victory!
The tightness and shortness of breath was becoming more frequent and harder on him, though.
A couple hours later, we walked for about a half a block and things got worse.
We decided it made much more sense to get him checked out again, so back to the ER we went.
His EKG was a bit off, his enzymes were climbing (indicating some distress) ... And soon there were 8 "medical people" in that curtained little emergency room with us checking him out.
It was determined he would have to have another angiogram. (Joe was less than thrilled about this.)
This time went much faster than the first.
In an angiogram, they look at the larger vessels and arteries. Those all look fine, which is good news.
However, we don't know why he is in so much pain and why his heart is stressed.
We spent the night last night-- it was pretty restless. Again, he had a lot of tightness and shortness of breath. We are spending the night again tonight and between now and when we go home, they are going to explore a few options. It may be a micro vascular disease (this would make sense because the larger arteries looked ok) or vascular spasms, due to the influx of blood flowing through his new stent, or an issue of his body trying to protect itself from the stent and starting to collect fluid around his heart or lungs.
So, we are waiting... And while we are still thankful we are here and he is getting such great care, we just want to get the heck out of here. Please keep him in your prayers. Pray for the doctors, pray for the kids--they are going to come up here tonight for a visit. We want to take the scariness out of it for them, hopefully. We think it would be good for them to see Joe in the hospital and then see him come out ok. We still aren't going to mention to them this involves Joe's heart but they can know he's not feeling well and the doctors are going to keep him for a while until he's all better.
Thank you so much for your encouragement and prayers and messages. They mean the world to us. And, while we haven't responded to most of you, please know we've read all of them and we deeply appreciate it.
Enjoy your day...Go Vikes!