The musician says he now feels he's 'in good shape for some time to come' and urges others his age to get an angiogram.
"I thought I was a very healthy guy and everyone said, 'You've got a great blood pressure, you've got a great heart rate,' and I keep fit," May said."In the middle of the whole saga of the painful backside, I had a small heart attack. I say small – it's not something that did me any harm. It was about 40 minutes of pain in the chest and tightness and the feeling in the arms and sweating.
May's doctors discovered he had three congested arteries"that were in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart." He said there was"a lot of pressure" to go through with triple bypass surgery, but after weighing other options, he opted for stent surgery instead, which allowed for a much shorter recovery time.
"I was very lucky to be treated as an emergency case, but I think it kind of was an emergency," he said with a laugh."But they were very kind." The musician says he now feels he's"in good shape for some time to come" and urges others his age to get an angiogram, because he had"no idea" his heart wasn't in good shape.
"We've all got to really look at ourselves as we get to the autumn years. What seems to be a very healthy heart may not be," he concluded."I would get it checked if I were you. I will get it checked. ... But I'm incredibly grateful that I now have a life to lead again. I was actually very near death. ... But I'm good. I'm here. I'm ready to rock."
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