An Important Correction About Anna's Surgery . . .

Good Morning: Throughout all the years we’ve been together, Annie has been more than meticulous in reading what I write . . . going back to both the first and second volumes of The Congressional Minyan: The Jews of Capitol Hill, more than a quarter century ago.

Well, once again, she’s put me straight about something I wrote and emailed yesterday. It turns out that the surgical procedure she will be undergoing tomorrow is not a Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TVR), but rather something that goes by the far simpler "The Miami Method,” which Dr. Lamelas pioneered some 20 years ago. If you will click the link above, you will read that Dr. Lameslas’ Miami Method is “a minimally invasive technique involving a right lateral thoracotomy that enables the surgeon, with the help of specially developed tools, to access the heart via an incision between the ribs instead of via a sternotomy."

While I regret leading you astray, I am, as always in awe of my wife . . .

I wouldn’t be surprised if she refuses to be anesthetized so she can assist Sr. Lamelas in her own surgery!

We’ll keep you up-date.

Thanks for all the good wishes and prayerful, loving emojis .

KFS