Triple H is currently the COO of WWE and he is also a veteran in the world of professional wrestling, having competed in several great matches and countless memorable moments during his time as an active in-ring competitor in the company. Triple H’s offer to buy a pro wrestling company was also previously revealed.
Doctors performed a thorough examination, including an EKG. Ejection fraction is the way one’s heart pumps blood and 55-60 is considered a healthy range. Triple H was down to 30.
“I had viral pneumonia. My lungs were inflamed, as the next couple of days went on, it got increasingly worse, and my wife saw some blood and stuff that I was coughing up. I went and got checked, and it was coming from viral pneumonia, but I had fluid in my lungs, fluid around my heart.
I got a quick text message saying to get to the hospital or he might die: “Don’t take time, pack your bag and head to the emergency room… by the time I got to the emergency room, my ejection fraction got down to about 22, which… I was in heart failure, bad. By the next morning, they figured that out, by the time I was going in to get a heart catheter my ejection was down to 12. I was nose-diving and sort of at the 1-yard line of.. where you don’t want to be, for your family and your future.”