Emma Butler Traynor - Emergency Surgery at 97

After being sick for most of this week, we took Emma (begrudgingly) to the Doctor's where it was determined the abdominal hernia that she has had for several years was strangulating. The Doctors never wanted to operate on it because of her age. However, being a true Butler she proved to them age doesn't matter. On Friday evening around 9:30 p.m. she underwent surgery and pulled through with little or no problems. She is doing fine and is expected to come home from the hospital Sunday. In fact the surgeon thought he could have done it as an out patient and sent her home the same day. We were all kind of glad that didn't happen. It has been a long weekend and she is exhausted but I thought the family might want to know.