Posted on 04/29/2019 12:19:49 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
Larry King suffered a heart attack last Thursday after going into cardiac arrest ... TMZ has learned.
Sources with direct knowledge tell us, Larry had been having difficulty breathing for months and was scheduled to check himself into the hospital Thursday for an angiogram.
We're told while he was at home getting ready to go to the hospital, he went into cardiac arrest. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where doctors performed an angioplasty. They opened up an artery that had collapsed and inserted several stents.
The 85-year-old talk show legend was put in the cardiac intensive care unit and we're told he's expected to be released Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
King is 85 and according to the article had been having trouble breathing for months and I imagine other sighs of heart problems. Yet did not seek any medical help until he finally felt he had no choice but ended up having a heart attack. If he had gone in earlier I think they might have caught this in time. But like a lot of people, especially men, he kept putting it off until it was almost too late.
Once upon a time I liked King, he did pretty good interviews when I would catch him on the radio years ago. Later on I got to the point I could not tolerate him.
His personal life, morals, and ethics were horrible. But I wish Mr. King well and hope he recovers.
If I was gonna have one, that's the best time to do it!....................
I remember being on a business trip back in the 80s and was waiting for a plane in the check-in waiting area. The “Larry King Entourage” came in cleared everyone away from the check-in desk and waiting area. They wanted people at least 20 yards from the great Larry. They brought him in on a wheelchair which kind of astounded me. Anyway they checked him in got him up in first class. I had never watched his show before I was now never about to!
Wonder how many suitors are lining up for the Shawn King sweepstakes?...
What’s going on with all these famous people dying recently? Is the Rapture happening?
This news makes me extremely sad.
Garlique!
Actually I read another article that said he had been seeing doctors about the breathing problems but none of the treatments they gave had worked and he was going to the hospital for more tests.
If he had a cardiac arrest, I'm surprised that he'll be released by next Monday.
He certainly needs an extensive work up.
He may need an implantable defibrillator.
Who didn’t see this coming, really...
Prayers for the old buzzard.
Then I have to wonder about his doctors, he had a history of heart problems. Wonder why they didn’t do the angiogram much earlier?
Still doing a show on Vlad Putin’s RT Network.
Beats CNN.
“Doctor, what’s your question?...”
He’s pushing some prostate supplement on FBN now.
Better than CBS or CNN.
GMTA. ;-D
I could not stand listening to King after someone talked about how horrible ‘trickle down economics’ was, and King said that the problem was “they didn’t trickle”
Meaning the rich were ‘given’ money and kept it.
That level of stupidity was the last straw for me.
Trickle-down was when they didn’t TAX AWAY money from businesses, and so they were able to use it to hire people or otherwise increase their business... and it was a HUGE success.
I was thinking the same thing.
But then my dad had a heart valve replacement and then a few months later kept getting chills and felt weaker and weaker and the heart doctor kept saying his heart was fine - finally he went to see his GP who slapped a thermometer in his mouth - saw he had a mild fever and that led to a flurry of activity where it turned out he had a heart infection from the heart valve surgery!
Why it never occurred to the cardiologist to even consider an infection is beyond me.
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