Posts Tagged ‘heart attack’

Usher’s Wife Back Home

February 19th, 2009

R&B singer Usher’s wife, Tameka Raymond, is back in the U.S.

Raymond left Brazil on Wednesday on a flight home, a day after being discharged from a Sao Paulo hospital where she had been recovering after suffering a heart attack during a routine liposuction operation gone terribly wrong.

E! News reports that Raymond made her way through Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, chatting on her cell phone and looking more or less in a good mood.

Usher’s wife had travelled to Brazil to have a routine nip/tuck, but ended up suffering cardiac arrest while she was being put under general anesthesia. Doctors managed to revive her, and she was placed in an induced coma for 24 hours to avoid "unnecessary complications."

Upon hearing the news, Usher, 30, cancelled his scheduled performance at Clive Davis’s star-studded pre-Grammys bash in L.A. and immediately flew to be by her side.

Raymond and Usher welcomed their second son in December.

Kelsey Grammer Hospitalized Again

July 28th, 2008

Kelsey Grammer has been hospitalized again, two months since he suffered a near-fatal heart attack.

Entertainment Tonight reported that the Frasier star was rushed to hospital in New York today after he began to feel woozy.

 

Now his rep has exclusively told OK! that docs will be keeping the 53-year-old actor in overnight so that they can keep an eye on him.

 

Apparently Kelsey is suffering from an irregular heart beat, which could be a symptom of the meds he’s taking after the recent attack.

His rep told us: "He felt a little faint. The doctors think there needs to be a change in the medication, so they are going to keep him overnight to observe."

 

The actor, who is promoting his new movie Swing Vote, has canceled four TV appearances.

Back on June 2nd Kelsey’s rep announced that he had been admitted to hospital while on vacation in Maui after he began to feel ill following a paddle boarding session.

They said that he was later diagnosed with a mild heart attack.

But last week married Kelsey admitted that the attack had been worse than they had first claimed.

He told ET that, in fact, that his heart had stopped and that medics had used a defibillator to revive him.

"It actually wasn’t very mild," he said. "They had to blast me twice and get me started all over again."

He said during that interview on July 23rd that he was now "doing fine."

 

Tune in to Entertainment Tonight later for more.

Kelsey Grammer Discusses Near-Fatal Heart Attack

July 23rd, 2008

For the first time since suffering a near fatal heart attack last May, Kelsey Grammer is opening up to Entertainment Tonight about his terrifying ordeal in his first on-camera interview since that fateful day.

In the interview, set to air on Thursday, the Frasier star tells ET, "We originally said it was just a mild heart attack, and it actually wasn’t very mild," he reveals. "They had to blast me twice and get me started all over again."

It was while paddleboarding with his wife Camille last May near their home off Hawaii’s Kona coast that Grammer first started feeling symptoms. He was flown to a hospital in Honolulu and released several days later.

Of his near-death experience, Grammer says, "My heart stopped, and Camille was patting my head and she said, ‘That’s when you looked up at me and said, ‘I’m going now.’ And then off I went. And then she said, ‘I’m going to need to zap him.’"

 

Kelsey continues, "It felt like somebody was actually trying to tear my chest apart with the jaws of life. As I lay there dying, I said, ‘Please, I can not do this. I don’t want to see anything; I don’t want to see any light; I don’t want to have any little adventures that make me want to get out of this life. I need to finish this one.’"

Grammer says he is "doing fine" now and is slowly beginning to exercise again.

"I’m playing a lot of Wii!" he said.

 

The actor will next star in the political comedy, Swing Vote co-starring Kevin Costner which hits theaters August 1.

Kelsey Grammer Released from Hospital

June 4th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Less than one week after award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer suffered a mild heart attack, OK! has learned that the Frasier star has been released from the hospital and is resting comfortably at his home in Maui.

In a  statement released to OK!, the 53-year-old thespian said he, "wishes to thank those who phoned, emailed, or wrote expressions of concern."

On May 31, Kelsey was paddle boating in Hawaii with his wife Camille when he began to feel the first symptoms of something wrong. After visiting a local hospital, it was determined that he had suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital’s care.

 

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