Obama Talks About Sasha’s Fight For Life

When Sasha Obama was only three months old, she was hospitalized with life-threatening meningitis. Obama brought this up at a White House Internet town-hall meeting on Thursday.

“Very dangerous,” the President said, responding to a health-policy question from a nurse in the audience. “The doctors did a terrific job, but frankly it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears.”

Because of this experience, and now that Sasha is much better he will always have a soft spot for nurses in his heart.

“I’m biased toward nurses,” he said. “I just like nurses.”