Lindsey hospitalized for emergency heart surgery

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

The one thing I can’t get out of my mind is how glad I am now that Lindsey was not on this Mac tour; it could have taken his life for all we know. The whole thing almost seems like a relief now, oddly enough.

i've seen people say this a lot, and i understand it brings some relief to think how maybe it was all destiny and it all worked out for the best.

(then again i've seen it being brought up even more by huge LB haters, which is interesting.)

the thing is that, for all we know, with his family history, this could have happened 5 years ago, or 5 years from now. he's been so careful and so zen and healthy living in the last decades. without all the stress of the last year, he probably would have been happily relaxed on the FM tour, just as he was in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and there would be nothing to trigger or precipitate it. so maybe it would happen like 2 years from now, or not. but with last year's stress it all piled up to a perfect storm now. it happened almost exactly to the day, a year after that fateful phone call he got, with Azoff screaming at him that he was ousted.

that said, i feel we are all incredibly lucky he's alive and here with us, apparently managed to avoid a massive heart attack by recognizing the signs in time. and hopefully will be in better health than he was in some ways, even if not being capable to do everything he could before.

it still doesn't feel real.