WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash gives update after heart procedure
The heart procedure that Kevin Nash recently underwent was an in-and-out experience.
Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer said the procedure only took 53 minutes of his time in total. Nash didn’t even need to take his shoes or shorts off — he just had to take his T-shirt off, have part of his chest shaved, and have anesthesia performed.
“My cardiologist, he treats me very well,” Nash said. “And I get treated very well at this hospital.”
The procedure was an electronic correction for an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation). On his podcast last week, Nash said his cardiologist found that he had a small amount of scar tissue on the back of his heart and might have suffered a minor heart attack 20 years ago. Despite that, Nash is fine now except for this irregular heartbeat issue that needed to be corrected.
“I walked in and when they put the blood pressure cuff on me, my blood pressure was 106 over 68 and my pulse was 63. So not exactly like racing into AFib or anything else,” Nash said while describing the procedure. “It was just that when you look at the EKG, because I’m looking at it, I’m like, ‘I don’t see… ‘ My cardiologist said, ‘Right there, that knobble little thing right there shouldn’t be there.’ But it’s like f*cking a pretty long way and then there’s just one that’s wrong.”
The procedure was an easy experience with Nash able to leave the hospital right after it was done.
“So I wake up, he’s smiling at me, they’re happy. They said, ‘Okay, we’ll get your wife.’ She came in and says, ‘You want something to drink?’ I said, ‘Yeah’ — and my go-to after surgery drink is always cranberry juice, because I don’t ever drink anything like that,” Nash said. “So that’s like, you know, nice and tart, kind of cleans your mouth out.
“So I had my cranberry juice and then they were like, ‘Well, you can get up when you feel like it.’ I just sat around because I already had my shoes on. And she untied the back of my thing. I pulled it off, put my T-shirt on, and was in the car — I think total time until we hit the IHOP was under an hour.”
The 66-year-old Nash was a World Champion for both WWF and WCW during his career, starring as Diesel early on before later helping to revolutionize the industry as a member of the nWo.
