Rosie O’Donnell has heart attack, happy to live

Comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell said on her blog on Monday that she is “happy to be alive” after she suffered a heart attack last week. O’Donnell wrote that she began experiencing symptoms, such as sore arms and an ache in her chest, on Tuesday after assisting “an enormous woman/struggling to get out of her car.”

“I am lucky to be here,” 50-year-old O’Donnell wrote. After doing a Google search that suggested she was having a heart attack, O’Donnell said she took Bayer Aspirin, but failed to call 911. The following day, O’Donnell’s doctor told her that “LAD was 99% blocked.” She wrote, “Know the symptoms ladies/listen to the voice inside/the one we all so easily ignore.”