Amanda Kloots opened up about her husband Nick Cordero's surgery to have his right leg amputated during Monday's episode of Today.
The Broadway actor is currently in a medically induced coma following the surgery, which needed to be performed due to complications that resulted from his battle with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Prior to the amputation, Cordero struggled with blood clots while on a ventilator and ECMO machine, which is used to help oxygenate the blood. "It came down to a point where honestly it was life or leg, and we had to choose life,'' Kloots told Kathy Park. "I choose life." "They put the ECMO machine in him to save his life," Kloots said. "It was literally to save his life, and it did, thank.