Former US president Jimmy Carter has said he was “deathly afraid” as his 90-year-old wife underwent surgery over the weekend.
Rosalynn Carter is recovering in Atlanta after surgeons removed scar tissue from a portion of her small intestine early on Sunday.
Her husband described his concerns on Monday to several hundred people attending a President’s Day event at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains, Georgia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Jimmy Carter said surgeons operating on the former first lady found scar tissue from an old operation had “strangled almost two feet of her small intestine”.
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Mr Carter said: “I was deathly afraid. I prayed for three hours.”
He said doctor’s began the procedure on Saturday night and finally told him at about 5am on Sunday that his wife “was going to be OK”.
