'I was freaking out,' says the 76-year-old action icon.
“I woke up and all of a sudden the doctors were in front of me saying, ‘I’m so sorry but it was unlike what we planned,'” Schwarzenegger said. “[They said] we made a mistake and poked through the heart wall and had to open me up very quickly and to save [my] life. I was really freaking out.”star shared some humbling footage of himself walking down a hospital hallway, first with a walker, and then on his own holding a railing.
“The bottom line is, you cannot roll the clock back,” he said. “It was a disaster. I was in the middle of a disaster. So now how do I get out of it? You have to shift gears. You collect yourself, shift gears and say, ‘Okay what I need to do now is I got to get out of this hospital.'” Schwarzenegger described first walking 10 steps and then progressing from there. “I looked like an idiot waddling around the hallway, but the bottom line was the doctor said you have to exercise your lungs because if you get pneumonia you can die,” he said. “We did it, because I had a positive attitude … [three months later] I started shootingThe actor has increasingly embraced his role as a wellness influencer, and earlier this year launched a popular health and fitness newsletter.
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