Arkansas Sen. John Boozman Slated For Another Surgery

LITTLE ROCK, AR — Arkansas' senior senator had emergency heart surgery three years ago and is schedueld to undergo a follow-up surgery next week.

Sen. John Boozman posted Thursday on Twitter a photograph of a handwritten note that says 30 percent of patients who have had surgery for a torn aorta need additional surgery. He will be in Washington when Congress returns from a recess next month, he said.

The 66-year-old told members of the Arkansas Association of Counties that doctors have urged him to have surgery for a year and a half. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of Little Rock first reported on the surgery.

Boozman had emergency surgery in April 2014, after complaining of chest and arm pain before a highway dedication at Gravette. Boozman, an eye doctor, is in his second term. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

A note to my fellow Arkansans about my upcoming medical procedure. Read more about it in @ArkansasOnline: https://t.co/E2FLGkP5yF pic.twitter.com/ULW1rgoYAE
— Senator John Boozman (@JohnBoozman) August 10, 2017

Photo credit: Kelly P. Kissel/Associated Press