Rosie O’Donnell says she’s fortunate to be alive after ignoring the signs of an enormous “widowmaker” coronary heart assault over a decade in the past.
The previous speak present host has been on a mission to tell ladies about their coronary heart well being since she suffered a significant cardiac occasion in 2012 at age 50.
Throughout a cease by “The Finest Podcast Ever” with host Raven-Symoné and spouse Miranda Pearman-Maday, O’Donnell defined how she initially dismissed her ache and why individuals ought to pay attention to how coronary heart assault signs differ between women and men.
“I ought to’ve died,” O’Donnell stated.
The comic advised the podcasters she didn’t suppose there was something out of the unusual when her arm started to harm after serving to a stranger into their automobile whereas visiting a pal on the hospital years in the past.
That was, till her son advised her she appeared as pale as a ghost.
“I used to be in my little artwork studio, and my son, who was solely younger on the time, stated to me, ‘Mommy, you appear like a ghost,’” O’Donnell remembered.
Rosie O’Donnell, proven right here at a theater efficiency on Feb. 19, says her son seen she had turned pale earlier than she knew she was having a coronary heart assault.
Rosie O’Donnell, proven right here at a theater efficiency on Feb. 19, says her son seen she had turned pale earlier than she knew she was having a coronary heart assault.
A weary O’Donnell then Googled the signs of coronary heart assaults in ladies and, although she felt “just a few of them,” the comedian didn’t suppose she wanted to “sound the alarms.”
“The reality of the matter is I had this coronary heart assault on a Monday at 10 a.m.,” she admitted. “I get residence, I can hardly stroll upstairs. I take two child aspirin, I fall asleep, I get up and my household goes, ‘You must go to the physician.’ I waited till the following day. So I had it Monday and on Wednesday I noticed a health care provider.”
When she lastly obtained medical consideration, medical doctors instantly despatched her to the emergency room, the place she realized she had a 100% blockage of the left anterior descending artery, a sort of coronary heart assault generally known as a “widowmaker.”
“I used to be like, ‘Wait, wait, what?!’ I couldn’t consider it,” O’Donnell stated. “After which I got here to search out out that the signs for a girl having a coronary heart assault are very completely different than the signs for males having coronary heart assaults. But what we see on TV are all the time males having coronary heart assaults.”
O’Donnell advised the hosts she was “actually fortunate” to be alive after the guts assault, which she stated “pressured” her “to be in contact” together with her “physique in a approach that [she] by no means had been.”
The American Coronary heart Affiliation warns ladies to be looking out for coronary heart illness, which is the primary killer of girls in the US.
Based on the AHA, ladies ought to search speedy medical consideration in the event that they expertise intense chest stress; ache within the chest, arms, again, neck, jaw or abdomen; shortness of breath; chilly sweats; nausea; or lightheadedness ― all indicators of a coronary heart assault.
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