Gradually the camera began panning back, revealing a young woman on a stool with herback to the camera, watching this scene on a monitor along with me.
Meanwhile, my wife, who I initially feared would struggle with the pain of watchingher husband face his mortality and the burden of nursing him back to health, has shown me just what strength is.
President Gorbachev himself had seen a TV report about Cox's swim and - with the world's media watching - the Soviet leadership decided it would be too embarrassing to turn herback.