“Gripping Pain on My Ribs”: Weeks After Heart Surgery, 55 YO Elite Bodybuilder Unveils Terrifying Hospital Experience

The name of media personality Dave Palumbo is not unknown in the bodybuilding arena. He owns a YouTube channel ‘RxMuscle — The Truth in Bodybuilding’ with a massive 301k subscriber base. In a recent upload, the bodybuilder was discussing his admission into the hospital after experiencing pain in the rib cage.

Palumbo earlier underwent open heart surgery to treat blockages in his heart. As he was still in the recovery phase, the pain made him more anxious. He rushed to the hospital to find out that there was no need to panic.

Dave Palumbo’s wrenching pain in the chest

In the video, the bodybuilder tells Chris Aceto about his recent hospital visit. It was Saturday morning when the former felt a bit sick. It was plain coughing and chills, but he later felt an immense pain in his back and scapula, which later progressed to his front ribs.

Palumbo confessed that his ribs were sore because of his recent surgery, but the pain that he experienced on that day was something else. “This was a different pain it was like a gripping pain on my ribs and all I could think about was Jerry Ward,” he told to Aceto in the video. Ward died of pulmonary embolism and the 55-year-old was afraid his pain was also due to a similar condition.

The bodybuilder, however, didn’t sit on the situation and drove himself to the hospital and got admitted. The tests later confirmed nothing serious but a lung infection that caused the pain. But the pain left the bodybuilder panicking to a great extent. “I never in my life experienced anything like that,” he sighed. Dave Palumbo earlier went under the knife for treating cancer.

The bodybuilder’s cancer surgery in 2021

A couple of years back, medical personnel diagnosed Palumbo with papillary thyroid cancer. But it isn’t very serious and is curable according to the YouTuber. The cancerous nodule was just 10 mm.

Speaking about his condition, the former editor opined, “You hear the word cancer and you think death. It’s not a death diagnosis. What it is, is you’ve got something in your body and you’ve got to address it.” He got his thyroid gland removed after undergoing surgery.

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Overcoming multiple health issues needs immense faith and hope. And these two kept the bodybuilder surpassing the difficult situation in life. It is great that the rib cage pain wasn’t due to some serious underlying cause. Hoping Dave Palumbo recovers soon!

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