The 'Monster Squad' actor reveals he had a health scare when playing tennis with his close friend and had to be taken to the emergency room for medical help.
- July 7, 2021
AceShowbiz - Actor Andre Gower is recovering after suffering a near-fatal heart attack.
The 48-year-old "The Monster Squad" star posted video to Facebook, in which he opened up about his health scare.
"Yesterday, I apparently went and had a heart attack," he explained. "Apparently, according to the info, it was a pretty decent one. I was playing tennis with my good buddy Mike, I started not feeling really well, and, long story short, after a few minutes of not getting better, my buddy Mike scooped me up in his car."
"We first went to an urgent care, and they immediately saw what was happening, and threw me in an ambulance, and I jammed over to the big ER, and wasn't there very long, went straight to the cath lab (catheterization laboratory), so from almost the door to the ambulance to the cath lab, and had two lines put in my femoral artery and vein, they went up in through the vessels into my heart."
"My right coronary artery ended up being 100 per cent blocked with a giant blood clot. Apparently, according to the people that worked on me and the excellent cath lab team, we got here with about 10 minutes to spare..."
"They've just removed my two main lines, which is good, which means my heart is working adequately enough to take the pacemaker out and the lines. But we’ll see in another day or two and go from there."
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Gower cover his medical bills.
