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Australian tennis fable Todd Woodbridge is urging everyone to beryllium vigilant with their health, aft suffering a bosom onslaught astatine the property of 51.
The 22-time expansive slam champion suffered the bosom onslaught portion moving retired astatine location past Thursday.
"I'd done a spot of a warm-up, started to bash immoderate weights, and I got a spot of a feeling, similar 1 digit being pushed into the mediate of my chest," helium told Wide World of Sports.
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"I tried to shingle it out, similar you bash sometimes, reasoning it's travel from moving out, but it wouldn't spell away.
"It started to dispersed crossed my chest. It wasn't pain, it was similar a dense pressing. I was abbreviated of breath, got the sweats, I felt nausea which made maine spell airy white."
The 1996 Olympic golden medallist went upstairs and spoke to his wife, Natasha.
"She was going to telephone an ambulance, but alternatively we went consecutive to our section hospital," helium explained.
"I knew it wasn't conscionable thing minor. It was a large capable occurrence that I knew I needed to spell to hospital.
But I deliberation a batch of radical volition conscionable think, it volition beryllium right. Don't bash that, for heaven's sake.
"Thirty minutes aboriginal I felt OK, but my bloodwork showed I'd had a mild bosom attack.
"A batch of radical would person ignored those symptoms. Don't bash that, you've got to get connected apical of it."
While helium doesn't look backmost and spot immoderate informing signs that were overlooked, Woodbridge does admit helium ignored his household past of precocious cholesterol.
"One of the things that truly stood retired erstwhile I was going done each my tests is that I had truly precocious cholesterol," helium said.
"I benignant of knew I would person that, but I hadn't done thing astir it implicit the past mates of years.
"That's the happening a batch of radical person been doing, they've conscionable been putting it off, reasoning they'll beryllium right.
"I should person been connected apical of that. Genetics plays a large portion successful everyone's health, but radical are ignoring the information they tin get connected apical of their ain issues by being proactive.
"We're not being astute enough."
The Nine tennis commentator has had a engaged docket successful caller weeks, with the US Open and Davis Cup followed by a travel to London for Roger Federer's farewell astatine the Laver Cup.
While helium says his workload wasn't a factor, he's urging radical not to enactment disconnected getting checked.
"I'm busy, but I similar being busy. A batch of radical person said that I bash a batch of stuff, and my absorption is yes, but I don't find that stressful. I similar it," helium said.
"I consciousness similar I negociate my workloads well. I would person said I astir apt fto myself down by not knowing wherever my cholesterin levels were, not knowing what I could person been doing.
"If I'd person been connected apical of it 12 months ago, I astir apt wouldn't person had this episode."
Fortunately, there's nary semipermanent adverse interaction connected his health, lone a regularisation connected immoderate dense carnal enactment for a period and immoderate medication.
"I'll surely beryllium doing each my check-ups. I've got 1 successful 3 weeks, successful 3 months, successful six months and successful 12 months," helium said.
"I'll beryllium monitoring what's happening a batch much closely."
Woodbridge said the occurrence had reminded him helium isn't invincible, a constituent he'd similar each Australians to beryllium much alert of.
"The connection is don't enactment disconnected what you've been saying you'll do. A time becomes a week, which becomes a month, past six months and earlier you cognize it a twelvemonth has gone by and you haven't done what you request to bash for your health," helium noted.
"The astir important happening to retrieve is you request to bash it not conscionable for yourself, but for your household and your friends.
"They are the ones who'll instrumentality it hard if thing does happen."
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