Surgery

Ralph will have surgery Wed. Sept. 23. He will check in at 10:30am, surgery is at 12:30pm and will take about 2 1/2 hours and then recovery for about 2 hours. He will be in the hospital for 5 to 7 days, depending on when his digestive system begins to function again. As the surgeon said, the "heart boys" will be close by during surgery just in case, but they do not expect any problems with his a-fib. The surgery is a sigmoid resection and is fairly straight forward and in a good place for the resection. They will also look at a very small spot on his liver that they are sure is benign, but since they are doing the surgery anyway, they will take a closer peek. We will have test results on the tissue and lymph nodes in 3 to 5 days. The surgeon says as far as he is concerned, they can do the ablation on his heart 2 weeks after surgery, but the doctor doing it may want longer. For now we are going to enjoy the summer weather here - supposed to be 80 by Monday!!