They call it the “Widow-Maker.”
Most don’t survive unless they can get to you quickly.
For golfer Jason Bohn, if there was a good place to have a heart attack, the scorer’s area of the Honda Classic was because paramedics got to him minutes after he complained of chest pains after finishing the second round last Friday.
They treated him immediately with blood thinners, raced him to the hospital where he is recovering from what turned out to be a major heart attack.
“Had it happened on the course, he wouldn’t have made it,” is how the Golf Channel’s Tim Rosaforte summarized it.
What Bohn had was a 99 percent blockage of the left anterior descending artery — the dreaded “widow-maker.”
“I guess my heart is really damaged and pumping at 25 percent,” Bohn texted to Rosaforte.
Bohn is in the Gardens Medical Center where a stent was placed in the artery and he is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit.
Bohn was feeling good enough to give some of his thoughts by Monday. “I didn’t realize what was happening,” he recalled. “I just never thought at age 42 I’d be having a heart attack to the degree that I had one.
“I got one hell of a mulligan. That’s all I can say.
That’s all he needed to say.
Update: On Tuesday, Bohn was given the okay to head home to Atlanta. He hopes to make a good recovery and wants to be back out on tour in a few months.
