Overview
- On Thursday Gabbard posted an emotional video and an X message updating supporters about her husband Abraham Williams' diagnosis and recovery.
- Doctors diagnosed Williams earlier this year with a sacral chordoma, a rare tumor on the sacrum, and the couple chose surgery over radiation.
- The operation lasted about eight hours and the immediate recovery was difficult as Williams began walking and refused narcotic pain medication.
- A few weeks after surgery pathologists told the couple they were confident that all cancerous bone and tissue had been removed.
- Gabbard resigned as director of national intelligence effective June 30 because of the diagnosis and her departure led to a contested succession that ended with Jay Clayton's Senate confirmation.