In a blog post on her website, Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she had a heart attack last week. After helping an obese woman out of her car, Rosie writes that she started experiencing what turned out to be symptoms of a heart attack:
a few hours later my body hurt
i had an ache in my chest
both my arms were sore
everything felt bruised
muscular – i thought
strained or pulled tissue
i went about my day
the pain persisted
i became nauseous
my skin was clammy
i was very very hot
i threw up
maybe this is a heart attack
i googled womens heart attack symptoms
i had many of them
but really? – i thought – naaaa
i took some bayer aspirin
thank god
saved by a tv commercial
literally
i did not call 911
50% of women having heart attacks never call 911
200,000 women die of heart attacks
every year in the US
by some miracle i was not one of them
the next day i went to a cardiologist
the dr did an EKG and sent me to the hospital
where a stent was put in
my LAD was 99% blocked
they call this type of heart attack
the Widow maker
i am lucky to be here
Lucky indeed that Ro lived to tell her tale as 2012 has already been a year of tremendous loss. What with Phyllis Diller passing away at the tender age of 95, the world of bawdy female comedians would never be the same.
Larkin
I saw her at disney orlando…. I love her…. I want to have her babies!
Alexa
Scary. Happy she’s doing well enough to blog about it.
dvlaries
I wish I could say this surprises me, but it doesn’t. It’s always seem to me that you could see plenty of stress and anger on Rosie. Many of her posed pictures look less like a genuine smile than a bite. If her treatment includes relaxation techniques, I hope she takes them seriously. You’re right, Queerty, with Diller just taking her goodbye, and only one surviving Golden Girl now, we want Rosie to stick with us for some time to come.