Sal, I think you're parents got very lucky. Sounds like they got quality treatment. Hard to believe things have changed that much in the last 12-13 years.
Overall we all thought so. Even despite the issue that my father died 4 days after the sucessful surgery during his daily PT exercises due that 1 in a million chance we all face in every surgery - a blood clot that got loose and hit the lungs. He definitely WAS given blood thinners, but...
I was trying to avoid this part of it, but in order to be totally fair...
2012 Mustang Boss 302 #1918, Competition Orange. FGF replacement 2006 Mustang V6 Pony, Vista Blue. Factory ordered. 2019 BMW X3 (Titled to the wife, but I'm always driving it for her. So I'm claiming it) Old projects, gone but not forgotten: 1967 FB 400, original CA car. After 22 years of work, trashed by the guy who was supposed to paint it. I had to sell it. 1980 Turbo Trans Am 1970 Mustang fastback, 351C 4Bbl, auto 1988 Mustang GT, 5 speed 1983 F-150 4x4, built 302 1994 Chevy K2500 HD 4x4, 454 TBI