Singer Max George has revealed new health problems just weeks after undergoing life-saving surgery.
The wanted one star revealed at the weekend that he had been fitted with a pacemaker late last year after a trip to hospital revealed he had a life-threatening heart problems.
Saying he thought he was going to “die” at the time, that singer explained that his heart rate dropped as low as 26 BPM, compared to the normal range of 60 to 100 BPM.
Now, just weeks after emergency surgery, George has revealed that this is not the end of his health concern – as doctors have informed him that he will undergo further tests to determine the cause of his heart problems.
The Wanted singer recently underwent life-saving heart surgery (Instagram/@maxgeorge)
Share the health update in one interview with The Sun, the 36-year-old explained that he was scheduled to undergo a biopsy on his lungs after tests discovered enlarged lymph nodes in the area.
“The doctors have discovered enlarged lymph nodes on my lungs,” he said, adding that he was scheduled to undergo further surgery in the coming weeks.
“This could be a sign of what was causing my heart problems,” George explained. “I have to have a lung biopsy in a couple of weeks. That sounds pretty gnarly. It might tell us what the cause was.”
The concerning update follows George’s revelation that he had even begun drafting a copy of his will on his phone after thinking he might die while waiting for the operation.
“The first night I wrote a will, I thought I was going to die,” he said in an earlier interview with The Sun.
Max George with girlfriend, actress Maisie Smith (Alan Chapman/Dave Bennett/Getty Images)
Adding that he had been placed in a ward with people around three decades older than him, the singer recalled: “If I could go from being on top of the world to being told ‘the lower part of your heart doesn’t work’, I would go on thinking in my head, ‘Well, what if the top half stops working overnight?’
“When you are told that you really realize what your responsibility is. I have one partnerMaisie, I have a family.
“I have two little nieces and nephews and all of that really comes through. I was in the cardiac ward with about six older people, I was at least 30 years younger than them.”
Fortunately, the operation was a success, with George revealing the moment he was reunited with girlfriend Maisie Smith after the operation.
“The first face I saw was Maisie’s and I remember it being really nice,” he said. “Like it was the first time I actually felt like a real person again, and I had a heart.”
