It's amazing what modern medicine can do now a days. Hope all went well with the surgery. Had mine in February and the worst part is the leg where they got the veins. Takes over a year for that to heal they tell me.
The worst part, or maybe the most enjoyable, was the full body shave by a lovely young nurse prior to surgery.
A lot of pain the first three days and the funny part was that trying to sleep in bed was impossible and had to sleep in a chair. Just tell him to hang in there and hopefully in a couple weeks he will be up and around again.
I wish him the best.
Jake