She was then recovering from a recent round of surgery but as she swam, she would think to herself, "This is just heaven.
But Zeigler was slow in recovering from knee surgery -- he required a second round of surgery last week -- and Bober took over.
An initial prognosis of four months was extended after it became clear that an additional round of surgery would be required.
She has a choice to make: should she break with the calendar and undergo a new round of surgery, or should she continue with scheduled radiotherapy?
He had another operation, then on April 22, he endured another round of surgery, this time adding bone graft to the knee to speed healing.
Before leaving for another round of surgery in Cuba in December 2012, Chávez named Maduro as his preferred successor should he not survive.
In his Thursday night address, broadcast on national television, an unusually reserved looking Chávez who read rather than improvised his speech, said Cuban doctors had detected "a strange formation in the pelvic region" following the first round of surgery.
The cancer was first detected and treated with surgery and chemotherapy in October 1998, but it recurred last August, forcing Strawberry to undergo a second round of surgery and drug treatment.
