So I was saying to myself, “I’ve just gotten out of an open heart surgery where it could have cost my life, and now they’re telling me that this next night or two is very crucial so I don’t lose my life.” So I said, “What the Hell is that? What kind of a deal did I get into here?” The most important thing is now for you to make it through the first night, because that’s usually when you can have pneumonia and where things go south.” But so now we are keeping you awake and everything hopefully will be fine. And the next thing the next doctor says, “Yeah, it’s like 16 hours later now since you were first put down. So I’m still kind of not saying anything, just look, staring at them. Okay, one, two, three.” And then I was - so I was breathing heavy and someone ripped the breathing tube out of my mouth.Īnd then the second doctor said, “We are so sorry, Arnold, but something went wrong with the valve replacement and we had to perform open heart surgery.” So I digested all that and also the breathing tube was just ripped out of my kind of throat and lungs. You still have a breathing tube in your mouth, and we’re going to pull that out right away now, so just stay with us. One said, “Don’t try to talk, because you can’t. And I saw three doctors in front of me not smiling, but kind of having a concerned look on their face. The next thing, I wake up and I’m really happy and this is over, only to find out that I was having a breathing tube in my throat and I couldn’t talk. And I, of course, was not aware of any of that, because I was out. So I got internal bleeding, and they now had to perform an emergency open heart surgery. Just happens to be that in my case, they had a difficult time somehow and they poked through the heart wall with the cable. It’s a standard procedure that they have now in the last 10 years, and you don’t have to perform open heart surgeries anymore because of it. But it goes through your arteries on your arm, neck, and then your growings into your heart, and then they replace your valve. That was when I just went into a routine, non-invasive aortic valve replacement. Would you mind just describing the heart surgery and what the recovery has looked like for yourself?Īrnold Schwarzenegger: I think that you’re referring to the most recent one, which was 2018. Tim Ferriss: We’ve talked about a lot the last few times that we’ve spoken, but I’d love to chat maybe about the heart surgery and your recovery from the heart surgery, which I think might be perhaps a inspiring place to start for a lot of people. For the sake of clarity, media outlets are permitted to use photos of Tim Ferriss from the media room on tim.blog or (obviously) license photos of Tim Ferriss from Getty Images, etc. WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED: No one is authorized to copy any portion of the podcast content or use Tim Ferriss’ name, image or likeness for any commercial purpose or use, including without limitation inclusion in any books, e-books, book summaries or synopses, or on a commercial website or social media site (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) that offers or promotes your or another’s products or services. For the sake of clarity, media outlets with advertising models are permitted to use excerpts from the transcript per the above. WHAT YOU’RE WELCOME TO DO: You are welcome to share the below transcript (up to 500 words but not more) in media articles (e.g., The New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian ), on your personal website, in a non-commercial article or blog post (e.g., Medium), and/or on a personal social media account for non-commercial purposes, provided that you include attribution to “The Tim Ferriss Show” and link back to the tim.blog/podcast URL. Tim Ferriss owns the copyright in and to all content in and transcripts of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, with all rights reserved, as well as his right of publicity. Watch the interview on YouTube here.ĭUE TO SOME HEADACHES IN THE PAST, PLEASE NOTE LEGAL CONDITIONS: Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. With many episodes lasting 2+ hours, it can be difficult to catch minor errors. Since his time in the Governor’s house, he’s been working diligently to combat climate change, anti-semitism, ensure fair voting practices, help youth, work with Veterans, and inspire healthy living. His new book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, is out October 10th, and his daily email newsletter Pump Club recently hit more than 500,000 subscribers and continues to grow as a positive corner of the Internet.Īrnold has made it his mission to give back. Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist, bestselling author, and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger ( Arnold served as the thirty-eighth governor of California.
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