Former Arizona Wildcat and current Bay Area radio host Tom Tolbert recently underwent emergency heart surgery last week to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm, he announced Wednesday on KNBR in a prerecorded statement.
Last Tuesday, Tolbert, 51, was about to sit on the couch to watch baseball when both of his temples started hurting. Then his shoulders. Then his upper chest and lower throat.
“And that’s when I thought, ‘OK, let’s get on good ole’ Google and check out heart attack and see what those symptoms are like.’’ he said. “That’s the first thing you think of.