Through a YouTube video titled Starting from Scratch: Coming Back from Heart Surgery, Arnold Schwarzenegger shared several details about the open heart surgery he underwent in 2018 He’s finished a complete disaster.
Arnold had then entered the operating room replace one Pulmonary valve which had already been changed in 1997 due to a congenital problem. This had given Terminator’s protagonist some peace of mind, the He underwent surgery just a few months before filming began on the sixth part.. However, when he woke up from the operation, the doctors gave him news that made his blood run cold.
“I suddenly woke up and the doctors were sitting in front of me and said, ‘We’re so sorry, but unlike what we had planned, a non-invasive surgery – you just go through the heart and replace the heart valve “One mistake and we went through the wall of the heart, so we had to cause internal bleeding and cut you open very quickly… to save your life,” Arnold says in the video.
“I was in the middle of a catastrophe,” says Arnold Schwarzenegger about the operation he had to undergo in 2018
The actor immediately understood that he was in a catastrophic situation, but thanks to the discipline that always characterized him, he managed to recover and leave the hospital as quickly as possible.
“The bottom line is that you can’t turn back the clock. It is a disaster. I was in the middle of a disaster. And how do I get out of there now? You have to change gears. Stand up, switch gears and say, ‘Okay, now I have to leave this hospital,'” the 75-year-old actor explained.
Thus, the recovery process was gradual. Arnold said he initially got out of bed on his own, which was quite a feat at first. Then he took a few steps through the hospital room and Soon he was running through the entire area.. The actor shared footage of his recovery in the hospital with a treadmill equipped with oxygen tanks. Schwarzenegger states that he felt “like an idiot” as he walked through the hospital, but that it was necessary to train his lungs to avoid getting sick.
“I looked like an idiot walking through the halls, but the most important thing was that I got going because the doctors said you have to train your lungs because if you get pneumonia you could die,” Arnold explained.
“I looked like an idiot walking through the halls, but the most important thing was that I got going because the doctors said you had to train your lungs because if you got pneumonia you could die.” Arnold assured.
The former bodybuilder was unable to recover on his own from this disastrous surgery, which punctured a wall of his heart. During much of the process, he received the help of his friends, who went to the hospital to support him as if he were preparing for a bodybuilding competition, but this time he changed the weights in small increments that his team had to count one by one accurate record of how he was doing. Improvement.
It is thanks to this support and a “positive attitude”. Arnold managed to recover within three months, just in time to film the scenes for Terminator: Dark Fate. Actually, the actor was in a race against time, but according to him, he did not let despair get the better of him and even though everything was against him, he managed to overcome it and shoot the film as planned.
Arnold managed to recover in time to film his action scenes in Terminator 6
“I wanted to start training, get out of the hospital as quickly as possible and then start training again. Because three months later I started Terminator 6. So I had to be in shape. I had to be able to move and run, lift things and do the fight scenes. And we did it because I had a positive attitude, I knew exactly how I was going to get there, I had the support system – because we can’t do it all alone – and when I started filming Terminator 6, Everything was already together “Again,” said the actor about this experience that brought him to the brink of death.