Prayers for your relative’s health and successful surgery.
Thanks so much.
I forgot to say that her son’s first two tours were to Iraq. (He ran in the beginning of the war between Tikrit and Kirkuk and survived an IED). The last three have been to Afghanistan. With is contractor job he got a letter from the military command because he was responsible for finding rebels LAYING an IED and he notified a convoy about it. Then he tracked the rebels back to their lair and the military was able to raid and find a cache of weapons.