By Kate Dennett For Daily Mail Australia
09:26 01 Jun 2024, updated 09:26 01 Jun 2024
Bernie Quinlan has revealed he is recovering from a shock heart attack.
The AFL legend, 72, was rushed to Frankston Hospital last week after suddenly suffering with chest pain and dizziness while making dinner at his home.
He told how he is ‘very lucky’ to still be alive as he detailed how the heart attack came on with no warning at 5pm on May 21 while he was cooking.
‘I am here to fight another day, but I am very lucky,’ he told the Herald Sun of the terrifying ordeal.
‘I was right on the edge, I could have gone either way.’
Bernie explained how he called an ambulance after feeling a heaviness in his chest and was quickly rushed to hospital for medical attention.
‘I was by myself and I just got this shocking feeling, hot and sweaty, and I had heaviness in the chest,’ he shared.
‘Fortunately I did not pass out or anything and when the ambulance got there they did all the things they had to do and they put the jumper leads on me in case they had to start me off again.’
At the hospital, doctors discovered he had a near 100 per cent blockage in one of his arteries and inserted two stents.
Bernie is now back at his Mornington Peninsula home recovering and was left shocked by the health scare, which he said came completely out of the blue.
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He said he believes heart issues might run in his family history, after his father died of a heart attack at the age of 63.
Bernie, who is known by the nickname ‘superboot’, played for Fitzroy and Footscray in the Victorian Football League during his impressive career.
He played a staggering total of 366 games, scored 817 goals and is one of the few players to have won a Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal.
Bernie became renowned for his spectacular long kicking and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.