Operation 'no big deal': Clinton
Former US President Bill Clinton went on a tour of tsunami-ravaged countries last month knowing he needed more surgery on his chest.
But his doctors had given him the go-ahead, assuring him that this operation - to fix a lung problem caused by his heart bypass – could wait.
Clinton returns to the New York hospital tomorrow, almost six months after his heart bypass surgery, to have a build-up of fluid and scar tissue removed from his chest. The condition was discovered during a recent X-ray.
He was planning to play with former President George Bush in a golf tournament for tsunami relief today.
“I feel fine. I just had a little fluid buildup after my surgery,” Clinton said. “It’s no big deal.”
His wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, said she would be in New York for the surgery and was “very confident about the outcome”.
“We have no reason to believe it’s anything other than a routine procedure that has to be taken care of,” she said. ”Bill has decided he wants to deal with it and get it behind him, which I think is the right decision.”
