Pat Sajak Opens Up About Scary Health Crisis: 'I Was Thinking This Must Be Death'

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'I still have my wits about me. They didn't remove that, so I'll be selling vowels for a long time,' the Wheel of Fortune host said

“It was that quick and that intense,” Sajak said, before explaining that the “horrific” pain he felt was due to an intestinal block. He also revealed that his blood pressure had dramatically fallen — so much so that doctors had to wait for it to go back up before performing surgery.

“You couldn’t do anything. I was in [a] fetal position, lying on the bed,” he said. “They try to give you various drugs for the pain. And none of it was working. And then they gave me something, I couldn’t even tell you the name of it, but suddenly, I wasn’t thinking about the pain. I just had these beautiful pastels and lovely faces coming out of it.”Sajak continued, “In the background, I could hear my wife and daughter talking.

But the famed game show host said that he wasn’t at all afraid, he just felt bad for his wife, Lesly Sajak, and daughter. “Hearing their voices, I thought, ‘Boy, their lives are gonna change now.’ And I felt badly for them. I didn’t feel badly about dying. I felt badly that they were gonna have to deal with the aftermath. As it turned out, I was just high,” Sajak added.star said his surgery was successful and he can go back to living his normal life — which includes getting back into the studio.“I’m as good or bad as new, and that’s great. I still have my wits about me.

“I’ve gotta do this until — you know — I’m doddering,” the host added. “I think I still do it at a high level. But you know, I can’t do it another 40 years, I know that, because I’d be 110, and that would be a record.”, which is the longest-running syndicated game show in the U.S., since 1982. The show taped its 7,000th episode in May of last year.

 

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