I had quadruple bypass surgery and a valve repair done three years ago. It is a pretty routine surgery nowadays unless you have complications like I did. I threw a pulmonary embolus during an in-bed x-ray two days after my surgery and I stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest . They had to cut me back open, cut the wires to open my breast bone back up and the surgeon hand-massaged my heart for 10 minutes before it started beating on its own again. They waited two days to make sure everything was working properly before they wired my breast bone back together but they couldn't sew my wound back up because of risk of infection. So I had an open chest wound for two and a half months before it healed itself shut. I was in the hospital for almost 6 weeks as a result, instead of the normal 5 days heart surgery patients are inpatient. Took me six months to started walking decent and a full year plus, to feel fully recovered.
The upside is, instead of having a thin, clean suture line on my chest from the surgery, I have a bad-ass, ugly looking scar on my chest where my open wound had to heal up on its own. My pride and joy.
My brother had quadruple in March...has made up some shark stories to explain his scars. :)