Another update on John Boettner
Bob visited John on Friday morning and filed this report.  "He was in good spirits and stated he was feeling well.  His surgery apparently went off without a hitch.  They used his own pericardium, harvested when they opened his chest for the surgery, for the patch to cover the dime-sized hole between the two chambers of his heart which had been the cause of his problems.  He reported that the almost 30 day wait before his surgery was performed from when it was scheduled was actually the hardest part of his surgery - the anticipation and worry before the event.  He was about to finish his pain meds when I saw him and he felt that Tylenol would be sufficient to deal with his waning chest incision aches.  He has restrictions - he can't drive or lift anything or throw his arms over his head, etc. - at least until his follow up visit with his doctor on September 3.  He promised to keep us posted on his post-op recovery."