Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n‘The Thursday night I worked in Melbourne and the Friday morning I did something I have never done before which was miss a flight,’ he told ABC radio.<\/p>\n
‘On Sunday we were at Parramatta and I felt off all day. I felt crook and I thought I couldn’t wait to go home and lay on the couch.<\/p>\n
‘I got up at 4.30am on Monday to get ready for work. But I felt crook with no energy. I texted work and said I am not coming in.<\/p>\n
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Andrew Moore has returned home after suffering a massive heart attack<\/p>\n
‘On Wednesday morning, I woke up with chest pains. I felt it was something serious. It was like someone put a book on my chest and another one and another one but my mind was playing weird games before I got Janyne to call the ambulance.<\/p>\n
‘They came over and very quickly diagnosed me as having a heart attack and they told me I’d be going to Westmead.’<\/p>\n
\u00a0While in hospital, Moore had stents placed in his heart during a three-hour surgery – and doctors told him how lucky he was to survive.<\/p>\n
‘I didn’t realise the extent of the heart attack until a few days later when every doctor would come in and it would go from a ‘massive’ heart attack to a ‘miracle survival’ heart attack,’ Moore said.<\/p>\n
‘I only found out when I was cleared of being in imminent danger that I had a 20 per cent chance of surviving. That was humbling.’<\/p>\n
After five days, the commentator was moved to the coronary ward where he would endure another terrifying episode while he was taking some medication.<\/p>\n
‘I remember I took the last three (pills) in one gulp and I got that chokey feeling \u2026 the next thing I knew I was woken up by the paddles on my chest with a bolt of light and I was aware for just a little while that I had the paddles, I heard him say ‘clear’ and then I felt the jolt and saw these bright lights,’ recounted Moore.<\/p>\n
‘I could see a doctor on my chest and I could feel, one, two, three, four, five \u2026 a lady said. ‘He’s conscious, he’s conscious’ \u2026 so that was scary as hell.<\/p>\n
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Moore spent three-and-a-half weeks in hospital and is happy to be back home<\/p>\n
‘I ended up having four of those episodes. I didn’t need the paddles again, but it was twice I needed CPR. It happened three times in front of my family. That hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘In a rare show of strength, I said, ‘I’m not dying here in front of them’.’<\/p>\n
Moore was discharged on Friday and is starting to feel like his old self again.<\/p>\n
He still has a long way to recover and isn’t sure when he will be returning to the microphone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I am [proud], but as anyone who’s been through something serious [will tell you], you don’t have a choice,’ he said.<\/p>\n
‘When anything was going to happen, whatever medical procedure, I was proud of the way I could just focus.<\/p>\n
‘I was proud of the way I didn’t dwell on death when it was clearly an option. I’m proud of myself. I’m obviously a lot stronger internally than I thought.<\/p>\n
‘I’m proud of the strength I’ve shown, but I’m gonna be more proud of the way I recover and get stronger again and live the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
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