Konnan provides an update on his health.
On January 19 it was reported that Konnan underwent heart surgery due to COVID effects. Konnan was hospitalized in February 2021 after testing positive for COVID 19.
On his Keepin It 100 podcast, Konnan explained exactly what happened.
"What happened was, remember the story I told when I took that bump from FTR and I fractured my rib? I fractured my rib and tore my labrum and dislocated my shoulder. I had been having all these pains and I thought it was from the rib injury. I was like, 'I better not fuck around with this anymore.' I called my cardiologist and was like, 'come take a stress test.' I took a stress test and they said I couldn't go home because I might have a heart attack. He goes, 'we're gonna have to go in there and see what's up.' He put a catheter (in) and they said I had a blockage. 'We don't know if we need to put a stent or if it's open heart surgery, but we can't operate because your kidneys are fucked up. You might have to go on dialysis.' To make a long story short, they didn't have to do open heart surgery, it was a stent that they put in, but my kidneys got fucked up by COVID. COVID fucked up my kidneys and heart. Now I have to get a kidney donor again," he said.
When asked how he was feeling, Konnan said, "I feel like I got a gunshot wound. They put two catheters in me."
He also noted that he has been shot before.
Konnan underwent a kidney transplant in 2007.
The spot between Konnan and FTR, where Konnan was on the receiving end of a spike piledriver, happened on the June 26, 2021 episode of AEW Dynamite.
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