I was just sore from the incision" (Andy Martin, Jr.) In some ways Eric took a proud view of his warrior scars, at least mental since he'd had a plastic surgeon close the incision to minimize any actual scaring, resulting from the surgery and the whole situation surrounding his life at the time. By Thursday afternoon I was up walking around and Friday I felt great. I had the surgery Tuesday morning and I was out till Thursday on life support. So they got rid of everything and slapped me back together. They had to then resect with a piece of pericardium around the heart. When I saw my surgeon again Sunday night, he told me that most of the atrium wall on that side was infected with this tumor including one of my coronary arteries. When I went in to surgery I knew that there was more to it than just the pinky sized portion, that there was a larger mass that it was attached to. that there was no way I could do it in L.A. and do it so that they could be near me, but I went through so much shit trying to get everything together here in N.Y. Finally we set up a date for surgery there was no way around it. We found out there were spots all over my lungs which we assumed were pieces of this thing breaking off. For the next week or so it was test after test. It was flipping back and forth, in and out of the tricustis valve as it was opening and closing. The part of it we were able to see at this point was about the size and shape of a persons pinky finger. There was a tumor inside the right atrium of my heart. The doctor was able to see what he thought he had seen on the first ecko, but didn't tell me about because he wasn't sure. When I had the ecko the fluid was almost gone at that point so the picture was really clear. I wanted to make sure that there wasn't anything that I was going to have to tell the rest of the band about before we started recording the album. Still a little short of breath and I was still coughing up some blood every now and then. After three weeks of treatment Eric had improved slightly, though he recalled, ".I felt great. Initially Eric's doctors treated him for the fluid around his heart with a regimen of medication for this pericarditis.
Fluid can build up in this area, due to a virus or infection, so it was assumed that was what it was" (Andy Martin, Jr.). I was sent to a cardiologist and he did an echocardiogram and found that there was fluid around my heart. The x-ray was fine as far as my lungs were concerned, but it showed my heart cavity was enlarged. The following Saturday I went and had a chest x-ray because I thought I might have pneumonia. Eric recalled how his health issues were discovered, "the week after Valentine's Day I got real sick. Within months following the conclusion of the "Hot In The Shade" tour Eric's seeming lethagy developed into something more serious.
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