am I in the same boat as ol' Chevy?

not the Fletch I remember

Headline:

Chevy Chase 'Basically Came Back From the Dead' Following 'Near-Fatal' Heart Failure That Placed Him in a Coma

Chevy Chase is opening up about the health problems that nearly killed him in his new authorized CNN documentary.

I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not is set to premiere on New Year's Day and features insight into the Saturday Night Live alum's past hospitalization, such as his "near-fatal" heart issues that put him in a coma for eight days as he recovered.

Details of the medical emergency, which took place in 2021, were scarce and kept under wraps at the time.

His daughter Caley Chase, 40, noted in a preview of the series how her father had “basically come back from the dead.”

“Something was wrong, and he couldn’t explain to me what was wrong. So, we go to the ER. His heart stops. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; when the heart muscles get weaker, and they can’t pump as much blood out with each beat," his wife, Jayni, said.

“According to the doctors, my memory would be shot from it,” the Community actor recalled. “That’s what’s happened here. I’m fine now. It’s just that it affects your memory, the doctors have told me that. So, I have to be reminded of things.”

Caley added that doctors “warned" her family about the future and how Chevy might not have full cognitive function.

She looked back on physicians saying: "'We might not get him back. We don’t know how present he’ll be. Prepare yourselves for the worst.’ He woke up, all he could do was use his voice.”

Ah, so this happened back in 2021. The article and photo captions make it seem as though heart failure is something you can easily beat. Maybe for those with money, it is.