He mentioned that his neurosurgeon explained that due to his poor health and underlying conditions, the probability of him dying during surgery is roughly the same probability as him dropping dead from a ruptured brain aneurysm in the coming year.
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Not good, i guess he has to have the surgeries and hope for the best. I wouldnāt want to spend the rest of my life worrying that something like that could happen any minute.
I guess Kyle wonāt undergo surgery (or surgeries) until Australian Idol producers are able to find a fill-in judge for the top 21 shows at the end of February, and then the live shows.
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Surely he will need a substantial amount of time off then maybe the entire year
Canāt help but feel for Kyle, but my question is from a business standpoint - where does this leave K&JO with their recently signed 10 year deal. Talk about bad timing. Will this delay the Brisbane/Adelaide rollout this year?
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Craig Bruce has spoken about his concerns for Kyleās health in his Melbourne Radio Wars podcast. Craig was aware of health issues - and mentioned in the podcast that he really did not know if Kyle would even be around at the rate he was going.
Letās face it, doing breakfast radio for all these years would take its toll on your body if you donāt take care.
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Your body does adjust to the different hours, but would mean making sacrifices eg. less family time with the early nights.
But you have to love radio to do it, and it can be a ādog eat dogā world if your show doesnāt rate well and you get turfed out
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The poor Melbourne ratings might prompt a rethink anyway
Yes, Iām sure thatās the priority.
Iāve had some experience with this in the last three months and have learnt a lot about it. I canāt comment on the brain aneurysm but that usually requires surgery and a recovery period.
The heart aneurysm may require surgery but can also be repaired by entering the blood vessels from a small incision in your groin or wrist depending on how much damage is done. This less intrusive procedure is usually the method to repair heart blockages as well.
In my case, I had a freak blood clot in my artery. Woke up one morning and had tightness in my chest and left arm. Usually an indicator for a heart attack. No previous symptoms and had tests done in the past which indicated no risk.
Luckily, I rang an ambulance and they arrived in 15 mins. Did an ECG in my lounge room and said I had not had a heart attack but my heartbeat was erratic and would be taken to hospital. I was given aspirin which is a blood thinner and can prevent a heart attack. On the way, I had a cardiac arrest in the ambulance and had to be shocked back to life.
Woke up in Emergency and was told what happened and that I needed a procedure in theatre too. They went in through my wrist, found that plaque/calcium on my artery wall had ruptured and caused a blood clot. It was cleaned up and a stent inserted. The other two arteries were checked and because one had a 30% blockage, a stent was inserted there too. The third is fine. This plaque build up is fairly normal for everyone by this age. There are different amounts though based on family history, cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, alcohol intake, drug use and bad diet.
In my case, I had none of those contributing factors and fairly normal plaque build up for my age. The rupture and the blood clot was a freak thing which the cardiologist described as a ābit of bad luckā but ālucky you did the right thing and called an ambulanceā. If I had waited at home or asked someone to drive me to the hospital, I would be dead now.
You hear about people having heart attacks out of the blue and they die without previous symptoms. This is how it can happen. The lesson for everyone is, if you have tightness in your chest and arm, call the ambulance. Donāt ignore it.
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Sorry to hear this mate, glad youāre doing better and Iāll try and take it easier on you! 
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No worries, mate. It might explain to you why a couple of months ago I was making some passionate comments about people who eat lots of fast food and have sugary drinks at a younger age and donāt worry about the consequences. They really should. It catched up with you eventually.
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Glad to hear it worked out positively in the end.
Perhaps we should close down the Fast Food topic? Replace it we Healthy Food discussion 
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We donāt have to go that far but maybe when some raise concerns about them, we shouldnāt ridicule them.
My year at school has a big social connection with reunions, catch-ups and on social media. I have found out that at least two others have had heart attacks in the last few years and they were both relatively healthy. Have also had four others share that they have had stents inserted after suffering ill health and doctors discovered blockages.
We had a recent school reunion and my story was shared around on the night. It got one of the guys thinking about it and he got himself checked out. His father had died of a heart attack at 63. His doctor found three serious blockages and he joined the stent club. He thanked me for raising awareness.
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This manās doctors will be strongly advising him against doing the hours that breakfast radio requires for the next 10-years.
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Whether he follows doctors advice is another thing.
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Man that is intense and Iām sorry to read about whatās happened. Hope you are recovering well.
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Any decent production would surely have a contingency plan made in advance should any critical personnel suddenly need life-saving surgery (or even just catch a common cold) at a momentās notice.
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Cheers, mate. The heart is good. Lucky there was minimal damage. The worst part was that the paramedic broke some ribs doing CPR. Very painful doing anything and it took about two months to recover from that.
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Iām so sorry to hear that this happened to you - I hope you are doing better now
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