September surgery for Jim Foster

Linda Phillips Foster, Class of 1977, writes that husband Jim Roy Foster, Class of 1971, after being checked out at Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Cardiac Catherization Department on Tuesday, will return in early September for an ablation.

Jim Foster

Ablation is the surgical removal of body tissue.

Linda writes: “There is a 60-75% chance this procedure will be successful."

Linda added: “If the ablation works, we will probably continue with his cardiologist in Morgantown and drive up every 6 months to see the EP specialist.”

An interesting side note from Linda: “We had two sandwiches packed. Jim gave mine to a homeless man with a ‘hungry’ sign.”  That sounds like the Monongah way.

Jim went from WVU’s Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown to the world-famous Cleveland Clinic to seek a solution to his heart issues.

Dignitaries from all over the world come to the Cleveland Clinic for their heart problems. U.S. News & World Report has listed it as the #1 hospital for cardiology and heart surgery for 22 consecutive years.

Jim married Linda in 2014.

Jim is about as Monongah as you can get. He grew up there, went to Monongah Middle School and Monongah High School.

Linda is from Monongah, too, and, of course, went to Monongah High.

Jim and Linda live in Fairmont.

Roy Foster, Jr., Class of 1945, is Jim’s father and 1948 Farmington High grad Dolores Headley Foster is his mother.

Roy’s sister, Ida Foster Shaver, also is a Monongah High grad.