My wife Liz had major surgery today–heart surgery, in fact–and is a-okay. It’s bizarre to find out–at 35–that you need an operation to correct a leaky heart valve, but that’s just what happened. She did really well with the surgery, and is starting to recover.
The last few weeks, especially, have been particularly strange, because it seemed like everybody we knew handled the news far worse than we did. I was pretty calm about the whole thing, I think in large part because Liz was so calMy wife Liz had major surgery today–heart surgery, in fact–and is a-okay. It’s bizarre to find out–at 35–that you need an operation to correct a leaky heart valve, but that’s just what happened. She did really well with the surgery, and is starting to recover.
The last few weeks, especially, have been particularly strange, because it seemed like everybody we knew handled the news far worse than we did. I was pretty calm about the whole thing, I think in large part because Liz was so calm. She was such a champ. She had every reason to be freaking out, and a few off moments aside, she was pretty cool about it, even this morning as she gowned up for the surgery.
The doctor who did the procedure, Craig Smith, was the guy who operated on Bill Clinton a few years back, so my attitude has been, if the secret service cleared this guy to stick a knife in the president, then that’s pretty okay by me.
And he lived up to his billing.
I’m definitely relieved, and can’t wait to get Liz back home. But I especially want to thank everybody who’s sent all the warm wishes and support. We both really appreciate it. It helped a lot.
