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Former President Bill Clinton was alert and talking Tuesday, a day after a heart operation to bypass four severely clogged arteries.
Clinton remained in intensive care at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and was “resting comfortably,” according to a statement by his office.
“He is awake and alert and talking with his family,” the statement said.
Doctors said the former president was taken off his respirator Monday night, a crucial step in his recovery. “He’s sitting up, talking, and he’s having a normal amount of discomfort, but he’s actually doing just fine,” Dr. Craig Smith, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, told CNN.
Clinton was expected to leave the hospital in four or five days.
