From NY1:Governor George Pataki is recovering in a Westchester hospital Thursday after undergoing an emergency appendectomy earlier in the morning.
Pataki's wife Libby says the governor is in great spirits, and doctors say that he is doing as well as can be expected.
According to the doctors who performed the surgery, if there are no complications, Pataki will be released from the hospital sometime this weekend.
"In his case this was a very early kind of rupture, in the sense that it had just broken through, probably, so there was no gross contamination of the abdomen,” said Dr. Wiji Ratnathicam. “So I don't think it is much difference than a routine appendicitis."
"He will probably remain in the hospital 24 to 48 hours, and he will probably we able to function fairly normally within a week to 10 days," he added. "But he should be able to work out of his home easily."
The 60-year-old governor began having abdominal pain early Wednesday. Later that night, Pataki checked himself into the Hudson Valley Hospital in Peekskill.
By 6 a.m. he was on the operating table for an appendectomy.
Lieutenant Governor Mary Donohue briefly took over as acting governor during parts of the morning while Pataki was in surgery.
We wish Governor Pataki a safe and speedy recovery.
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