Regis Philbin, co-host of "Live With Regis and Kelly,'' announced on Monday's show that he will have heart bypass surgery this week.
"Well, listen, I gotta tell you something. ... I had been feeling chest pains, you know, and, uh, shortness of breath and all those little symptoms that you hear about,'' Philbin, 75, told his TV audience. After a number of tests, doctors recommended bypass surgery.
Philbin said he was hoping to have angioplasty because "you know, you get in - bang, bang, bang - they blow it open and you leave the next day.'' But, he said, "there's some plaque in some arteries and I've got to get it cleaned out.''
He's not looking forward to the surgery.
"Darn it, I don't want to do it,'' Philbin said. "Nobody wants to do it, I guess. And I had a second opinion, I did all those things, and so they're all in agreement that it should be the bypass. And so that's what I'm gonna do.''
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So which is it? A bypass where arteries are actually bypassed beyond the clogs or angioplasty where a stent is inserted and blown up? If you are going to use it as a news story, get the facts. Those are two different operations.
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