Someboy here might correct me, but when they say he was in hospital wit heart surgery , wasn't he only one or 2 days in hospital? if you have heart surgery shouldn't you be more than just one or 2 days in? I always thought the hospital story was not true, just because I think if you have heart surgery you might e in hospital 4 or 5 days not only one or 2, but I might be wrong.
I had the same procedure in 2014, only with 5 stents, and while it is a very serious condition at first (that's why I wasn't on the internet for a long time) and the stent situation has to be checked every year, it can stay like that and not get worse if you live a quiet life without stress. Depending on the number of stents they normally do it in 1 to 2 nights at the hospitals but there are doctors who do it in their practise rooms ambulantly. At least that's the way it is in Germany.
It is not really heart surgery, though, they enter your main blood vessels with an endoscope (most of the time from the hands) and check them, try to clean up those which are clotted and in case the clots are already large, they put a stent (some sort of net with medication on it to prevent new clotting there) over the place and widen the net, so that the clot is pressed against the blood vessel and the blood can flow again. Then it's ultra sound wave check-up once a year to see if there is a possibility of a new clot.
It is dangerous and of course the risk is there that you get a new clot and with it the heart attack that can be deadly, but it can happen to a lot of people as well and when those are not warned and their blood vessels not monitored, they have a higher risk of dying than the warned ones with the stent, because they know to immediately call the ambulance in case certain symptoms turn up and how to treat them ASAP.
But: and that is a message to you, Sam
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, in that situation it is of utmost importance to let yourself help to a stressfree life. Do Yoga, have therapy, stare into the sunset in mediation. But do not harrass your youngest daughter! That might kill Tom Sr., not the fact that Meghan has enough of those obnoxious shenanigans.
I am sure if Tom had behaved like a dignified father of a famous person, he would have gotten help to get better and live stressfree. But starting to play the ugly games of the tablois media? is exactly what will bring up the blood pressure and the danger of a heart attack.
IMHO he was really looking for a way out and such a heart catheter examination is easy to get from doctors and over a certain age and with the body volume of Mr. Markle, plus the stress of a Royal wedding (including the travels) ahead, any doctor would find at least one place to stent! This is more or less the cleaning up stent that makes insurances pay for the procedure. Now if he had 3 or more....(written from my own experience with the topic, so not necessarily true in this case, but still, not "faux news".