Surgery Update

Hi Everyone, This is Lindsey Tieman. I just got off the phone with Keri and she asked me to post an update for John.
Before surgery Dr. Perry checked in on John. After he explained everything he was going to do he asked, "John, why are you wearing a blue bonnet?" John said, "I don't know." Dr. Perry said, "Because every things better with Blue Bonnet on it!"
Johns surgery went really well thank goodness! It was about 2 hours long. He was in recovery for about 2 hours and then moved to ICU. The Dr's had to remove about 2 feet of intestine, which really isn't bad. He still has enough to be just fine. They removed a small ball size tumor and some lymph nodes. He will be in the hospital between 5-7 days. Saturday and Sunday will be very important rest time & getting John up and moving around, so the family is asking that John have no visitors until Monday. If you would like to visit, please make sure to contact Keri first to see how he is doing. He is at Good Sam and as soon as he is in a regular room, one of us will make another post with that info.
I would like to thank everyone for all of your love, support and prayers for John. He is such an amazing person (and Cody's favorite person ever) that I know he will be able to overcome this. Thank you again.
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