Fitness influencer Joey Swoll revealed that his routine heart surgery turned into a six-hour ordeal, a situation which his doctors had 'never' seen before
“Feeling great but just very physically and mentally beat up. I still feel like I’m on that table looking up at the beige ceiling and bright light as I lie there helpless.”
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"One day home from the cardiac ICU and I feel great but VERY sore and very beat up. I went in Friday for a routine diagnostic angiogram which was supposed to take 30-45 minutes. During the procedure, a piece of of the tool they used fell off inside my heart causing a…
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People seem to misunderstand the term routine here, its not joey that needs routine like surgery, its the surgeons that do this on a routine, meaning they are used to it being a daily practice.
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Than man is just too huge for a human heart to be able to sustain long-term life. He needs to lose some size - even if it comes at the expense of losing muscle mass.
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Just adding context. A small piece of the medical instrument became detached and took a trip through his circulatory system. This caused him to crash and the doctors scrambling to "catch" the tool as it traveled via his arteries.
Doctors caught it in his leg I believe.