Hein recovery continues after second surgery

Bob Hein, 72, Hillsboro, has an estimated six to eight weeks left before he can return to duties as Marion County commissioner and a salesman at Midway Motors after undergoing a second surgery for a blood clot on his brain last week at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, according to his daughter, Brenda Moss.

Moss said the clot put pressure on his brain that left Hein with weakness on one side of his body that surgeons say he will overcome with therapy.

He is doing well, and is not expected to have lasting impairments, she said. It was not a stroke, and she added that he talks with normal memory function.

?Everything looks good, and we expect him to be back to his normal self,? she said.

Moss said surgeons believe Hein?s injuries began in the past two months when he hit his head on his garage door as it was being lowered, and that was followed by him slipping in water while working as a volunteer in the baseball stand.

Hein?s first surgery was April 12, and he had to return for the second surgery when another blood clot developed, Moss said.

?When the initial therapy is done, he?ll go home,? she said.

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