Wishing King a speedy recovery.

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: Livia Zita, the wife of legendary Danish heavy metal singer King
: Diamond, has issued the following update:
:
: Let me catch you all up on the past couple of weeks' happenings,
: because it affects many things.
:
: On Monday the 29th of November, King had to be transported to
: the nearby hospital by ambulance. After several different tests
: were done and the EKG machine showing abnormalities, the doctors
: recommended that he get a cardiac catheterization.
:
: Cardiac catheterization is a procedure where the doctors lead a
: very thin tube up from the leg and into the heart, where it
: injects dye into the bloodstream. Then a camera at the end of
: the tube takes many pictures of the heart's arteries, looking
: for blockages.
:
: After this was done, they determined that King had several heart
: attacks, and three of his heart's arteries were the cause: one
: was completely blocked, the second was 90% blocked, and the
: third was 65% blocked. The only solution to this was an
: open-heart triple-bypass surgery.
:
: King's surgery took approximately seven hours. Everything went
: well, and King was taken to ICU for recovery. He was walking and
: eating solid food already two days after the operation, and he
: was the first one in the history of the hospital who walked on
: his own power from the ICU to normal care.
:
: 10 days after the ambulance took him to the emergency room, he
: is at home and is recovering well. It will be a few months
: before he feels completely normal and is without pain.
:
: He would like to mention here that he's eternally grateful for
: the wonderful staff at Centennial Medical Center who took care
: of him. Dr. Kourlis, Dr. Kamili, Dr. Alang, Nurse Christie and
: Nurse Thomas among many others made sure that he got the best
: care and attention he could ever have hoped for. They were
: always very nice to me, too, letting me stay overnight in the
: ICU after visiting hours were over.
:
: In light of this, he will be taking a break from music and the
: music business altogether until further notice. He very much
: wants to write new music, finish the dvds, and go on tour, but
: for now, all those things are in the distant future and he's not
: thinking about them.
:
: Please understand that the King Diamond band is not stopping,
: disbanding or anything of the sort. King's health is first
: priority, and when everything is going good with him, the music
: will resume.
:
: Thank you all very much for reading this and stay heavy.
: