John's surgeon was called in during the middle of the night for the surgery.
He told Vicki, the way I understand it, he had never done this type of
surgery before and that it was a text book type of surgery.  That is,
something you study in a medical text book but never have to perform as a
surgeon.  thank God for doctors and the gift God has given them even if many
of them don't know where it came from in the first place.

We need to pray for John's breathing.  They will be having him on breathing
exercises where he breathes into a tube but his breathing, based upon his
open heart surgery, is going to be painful, to say the least.  If he doesn't
breathe and work at it, he risks the chance of getting pneumonia and he
doesn't need that right now for sure.  So pray about his breathing.

When they do this type of surgery, they literally use stiff wires to close
the chest back up.  The skin is then sown over the wires.  No, they stay in
the body from then on.  No, me neither.  I cannot even imagine what it is
like.  John was a cop for 9 years in Florida so he isn't chicken like me but
nobody does it alone, not even you.  The only one who ever has is Jesus.
Stop and think about that one for a few days and see how it changes your
thinking.  Jesus will be there at the end of your meditation on that
concept.  Write and tell me what you discover about Him when you get to the
end of that train of thought.

Phil.