Bill Clinton Heart Surgery Successful
I’ve sat in the waiting room on more than a couple of occasions while doctors worked on a close familiy member’s heart. Believe me, there is no better phrase to hear than “He’s doing fine”. Praise God.
I wonder what Bill and Hillary Clinton talked about and thought about as they waited for surgery. I wonder what was on Hillary’s and Chelsea’s minds as they sat for those agonizing hour in the waiting room. Did they both refuse to leave to get something to eat for fear of missing something? Did every ringing phone and every passing doctor or nurse make them jump with the expectation of news, like it did for me and my family? What did Hillary think when she visited him in the ICU? It’s not a comforting sight to see a man so recently out of surgery. Did the breathing tube gag badly him like it did my dad and my father in law? Did Hillary think of resigning her position in the Senate and the two of them moving to a quiet spot somewhere to grow old together? Did she think of their early years together? Or of the last 10-12? Did Hillary and Chelsea have the same sorts of alternatingly mundane and serious conversations that I’ve had and overheard in cardiac waiting rooms? What was it like for Chelsea to see her dad, recently one of the most powerful and still one of the most influential men in the world, lying there in a hospital bed? Did Bill keep a stiff upper lip for his wife’s and daughter’s sake? I know he was more than “a little scared”. Did he show it?
Can the respected, admired, villified Clintons really just be a man, a woman, and their daughter? I am certain that’s exactly what they’ve been for the past few hours.
Many prayers, including my own, have been offered in the past few hours. Thank you God for hearing and answering.