Former Australian Test captain Steve Waugh has opened up on his wife's health problems in his new book The Meaning of Luck and revealed how the news of his wife's brain bleeding changed his life in an instant.
According to The Courier Mail, in his book, Waugh describes rushing home from a day's book signing in Victoria to be at his wife's side and said in an interview that it was one of those things that he did not expect to happen.
The former player, who has been with Lynette since they were teenagers, expressed that sitting alone in the back of the plane, as its sole passenger with the demons bouncing around in my head was the loneliest experience of his life, the report said.
Waugh could not contain his tears when he arrived at the intensive care ward at the Sutherland Hospital and had never felt more vulnerable than when he saw his in-laws, the report added.
The former captain told his friends that he would trade anything he had achieved on the cricket field just to know that Lynette was going to get better.
During a two-hour wait while Lynette was undergoing surgery, Waugh started to sob as Gavin Robertson comforted him by holding Waugh's head against his chest, the report further said.
However, Waugh was happy with the fact that his wife was 98 percent back to where she was before the bleed and added that most stroke sufferers do pay a price, to varying degrees.