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Darryl Strawberry suffered a heart attack and underwent an emergency stent procedure on Monday, but People reports that it didn’t keep the former MLB All-Star down for long. “Praising God for His amazing grace and loving mercy in saving my life this evening from a heart attack,” the celebrated slugger posted on Instagram on Monday night. “I am so happy and honored to report that all is well.” Strawberry added that doctors at SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, “brought my heart to total restoration!” The heart attack was an unwelcome birthday present, coming hours before he turned 62 on Tuesday. But Strawberry has another milestone to look forward to: “We are looking forward to Straw’s speedy recovery and welcoming him for his number retirement ceremony on June 1,” Mets owner Steve Cohen said in a statement, per ESPN. Strawberry’s No. 18 will be retired.
Friend of mine a little older than him at the time came rolling into work one day and texted me from the locker room that he wasn’t feeling well. Went up there,chest pains, sweaty as hell, heartbeat irregular, pallor around the lips (about the only place you can quickly visually assess oxygenation in a dark complected person), shit capillary refill, labored breathing…off to the hospital with him.
One cow valve later, and he lived to retire and to enjoy a lifetime of “Captain Beefheart” jokes, at least from me. He looks better than ever, got to see his daughter graduate, and just got back from a cruise to Aruba, so he’s living the life pretty well after having tried pretty hard to die on the way to work.
May Mr. Strawberry’s repair and recovery be as successful, and may it serve as a reminder to him and us all how precious life can be and how death is never far from us, no matter how fit and famous and wealthy one may be.
As an object lesson, another man I used to work with also left home for work, picking up a passenger along the way. He told his passenger he was feeling so bad that he’d drop the other fellow off and drive himself to the hospital just a couple of blocks further on.
Solid plan.
Too bad he didn’t live to complete it.
In fact, he died on an off-ramp and only his frantic passenger grabbing the steering wheel kept him from hitting cars on the parallel on-ramp because dead people aren’t particularly worried about TCs.
He was a good man as mortals measure it, hard worker and liked by his line workers, apparently popular in his community, and he was and is missed.
Had he decided to NOT try to get to work that day and call an ambulance instead, he’d still be alive and everyone involved would have been better off.
No one should die at work.
Take your heart seriously. Don’t let those pains be the last you feel on Earth.
^^^^^
what he said. spoken by a person who had a heart attack at work.
“Cocaine is a hellofa drug…”
this dude escaped from evil, more power to him
Darryl, Darryl, Darryl
How come some drug abusers like Strawberry, suffer a lifetime of health issues, while others like Hunter Biden, seem to skate through life without health consequences, after decades of drug abuse?
*White privilege…
Fully jabbed no doubt.
“BURN BABY BURN” said during the “Mayor Tom Riots”.
“Its white peoples’s property!” A sad SoCal native
and HOW many times has he been banned from baseball for life?
geeknerd
TUESDAY, 12 MARCH 2024, 17:10 AT 5:10 PM
“and HOW many times has he been banned from baseball for life?”
Hold my bat.