Steve-O Dying?

[JoeFromDetroit]

Last night I was driving at 1am and was flipping around and came across Loveline and heard Steve-o was the guest. He was saying he is dying due to some sort of serious heart problem and a worse case scenario could be him dead before 40 if he doesn't get a transplant.

I only heard bits and pieces so i'm not completely sure what the deal is. Anyone hear what this was all about?

As crazy as he is, I have a feeling he'll live a long time. Just like all the rock stars that "should" be dead.

[Smokezilla]

He probably damaged it on those fucking drug-binges he's notorious for. I'm all for a party, but that shit he did on Adam Corolla was way out there, man!

[Ego]

He should buy one whenever they film some more Wild Boyz episodes. They go to enough 3rd world countries. There's a black/gray market for internal organs in one of them, for sure.

[WonkaVision]

there is no way steve-o will ever die of a heart condition at 40, I can think of a million other ways he will probably die.

[d0uche_n0zzle]

Will he even make it to 40?

[Dark Reyule]

Who cares?

[MilitantRabbit]

there is no way steve-o will ever die of a heart condition at 40, I can think of a million other ways he will probably die.
It's happened before that daredevils will do a million dangerous stunts and live, only to be struck down by something trivial.

[novalia]

he's in my death pool for 2006.

[tourettesguy]

I love Steve-O.

Too bad it's not Bam.

Viva La Bam was so set-up and stupid.

I bet his parents are still REALLY annoyed with his rebellious, MTV-generation saavy pranks that have made them millions.

[UnOriginal]

I hope Steve-o doesn't die anytime soon. His live show was probably one of the funniest and craziest things I've ever seen.

[albacore]

If you haven't heard it go download when Steve O was on O&A in the WNEW days. It was some of the best shit I'd heard on radio, he was in studio for most of the show and was out of his fucking mind. The shows were far more than just him doing his stunts but just hanging with Dee Dee, doing coke and just being out of his mind. He truly seems like a nice guy and it would suck to see him go,

[LAX]

yeah the cocaine OD is definetly gonna get him b4 40

[ShooterMcGavin]

Whatever is happening, he brought it upon himself.

I have no sympathy for people that are in a condition because of their own recklessness.

[The_Poontangler]

He should buy one whenever they film some more Wild Boyz episodes. They go to enough 3rd world countries.
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And they could get Pontius, Knoxville, and Wee Man to do the transplant! TV Gold, Baby!!



Steve O reads his suicide letter on the O & A show (http://www.foundrymusic.com/opieanthony/displaymedia.cfm/div/opieanthony/id/10594/)

[MilitantRabbit]

Viva La Bam was so set-up and stupid.

I bet his parents are still REALLY annoyed with his rebellious, MTV-generation saavy pranks that have made them millions.
They can't complain. Their son paid for their house in full. What he does to them or the property he paid for is his perrogative.

I still hope he gets ***** by pygmy marmosets while on safari.

[Hog_Juice]

Steve O is the man, his DVDs are fuckin greatness. I hope they do another season of wildboyz. poor dude, hope he is ok.




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I love Steve-O.

Too bad it's not Bam.

Viva La Bam was so set-up and stupid.

I bet his parents are still REALLY annoyed with his rebellious, MTV-generation saavy pranks that have made them millions.

[Devilock]

OMG...Jackass...Wildboys....YAWN! I could careless about thier crap. But, I love it when Steve-O calls up the show at 6AM wreched off his ass to the poing he can barely speak clearly. Cringe!

[DonandMikeBlow]

From Steve-O's web site

So, I Guess I'm Dying...
May 18, 2006

I just got back from hearing the results of my "executive physical" at the UCLA Medical Center. Pretty crazy shit, I came up clean for STD's (which was all I cared about-- other than my esophagitis) but the doctor informed me that my heart isn't working properly. He asked if I drink alot and I confirmed that (I'd already told him on the day of my physical) and he said that he is comforted by that, as alcohol is a known cause of cardiomiopia-whatever-it's-called. He said that, if I stop drinking, that my heart could very well correct itself from its enlarged state, shitty pumping, and all-four-fucked-up-chambers. Apparently, if my heart doesn't correct itself, he doesn't expect me to live to the age of forty. In layman's terms, he told me, "You have the heart of a ninety-year-old man." Of course, my immediate reaction was to tell him that I'd take a fucked up heart over a fucked up dick any day, however, I'm pretty into making it to the age of forty, so, it's off to a heart specialist next week. Can you imagine me heading into the most comprehensive physical program known to man and finding out that I have the health of a ninety year old virgin?

I watched a finished TV: The Movie tonight and, to be honest, it occurred to me that the days of sitting down and doing 144 nitrous cartridges in a row might have been gnarly for my heart. Sam's heart is probably fucked, too. The doctor said that smoking caused me to have very minor plaque in my arteries or whatever, but that his best guess about my heart was that my problems were due to alcohol. Gets me stoked I got off the cocaine, that couldn't have helped the situation either. We'll see what happens, I always assumed I'd die young as fuck, that's why I have so much footage.

Yeah dudes...Slash says she'll stick with me while I'm not drinking, that's crucial. It's nuts how crazy I am about her. I woke up from a nap today, there was familiar realization that I'd had nightmares, but, then I realized it wasn't a nightmare, that a doctor really told me some creepy-ass shit. I was kind of in a funk over it and Sam showed up (terrified of what shape his heart must be in, and vowing to do nothing to look into it) and, as usual, we laughed our asses off. I felt like I had a moment of clarity when I told Sam, "Slash has to be stoked, ya think? I mean, it's like, how can it not be good news for her to hear that I have a clean wiener and won't be flailing around wasted making worse-than-normal decisions?..." I can't say how long I won't be drinking, I'm just going to keep producing footage and I'm all about being with Slash... -O

Sam,

Just googled "effects of nitrous oxide on the heart". Nothing's bad about whippits for your heart, it actually says the shit's good for your heart. Maybe I'm just delirious, but that's how I read it. Now, meet this dude with who "might" have what I have (cardiomiopathy) and what seems to be a highly educated reply:
I'm 55 years old and I'm an alcohol addict for 30 years now. Approximately 5 years ago i noticed chest pain on the left side and under my armpit back then I went to the doctor they did a series of tests and established that it was a minor arrhythmia caused probably by alcohol abuse. I didn’t have any problems till recently when I experienced the shortness of breath and even fainted once. I decided to go to my cardiologist again and he said that it could be a possible Cardiomiopathy, he ordered a series of tests that I'm supposed to take. I'm not so familiar with the term so I would like to know how dangerous it can be?

Cardiomiopathy is a very serious condition. It’s a disease of the cardiac muscle, a cardiac muscle inflammation, it has many causes in your case its probably worsened by your alcohol abuse. High alcohol levels cause constriction of blood vessels and that overloads the heart causing hypertrophy of one of the chambers. Enlargement of the muscle causes frequent arrhythmia of different types which makes things even harder to treat. The first thing you should do is give up alcohol completely if you do that you may have a chance of improving your health, in fact, many alcohol addicts lose most of the symptoms if they give up the consumption of liquor. The further treatment depends on the results of those tests you are going to take as the last resort a heart transplant may be needed, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. Good luck.

Cardiomiopathy: People chronically drinking may develop alcoholic cardiomiopathy caused by weakening of shrinkability of a heart muscle, which are constituted by pathologic changes in fibres of a heart muscle or fattening and growing of heart, substantial weakening of the power of cramps etc.) which leads to malfunctions of heart activity and inefficiency of circulatory system. The mechanism of these changes has not been well diagnosed yet It is suspected that a part in it may play handicaptions of absorbtion of Ca and peroxidation of lipoids, together with creation of free radicals and producing acetaldehyde. Both cardiomiopathy as well as below described disturbances of a rhythm are caused by direct influence of alcohol activity and the products of its digestion onto the heart muscle and heart conduction system. It is estimated that 20-30 % of cases of cardiomiopathy In the USA may be connected with alcohol consumption. Research conducted in the USA shows that almost half of people suffering from cardiomiopathy of a difficult reason to be diagnosed showed symptoms of alcohol addiction. A the same time at about 30 % of patients the symptoms disappeared after giving up drinking. The remaining 70% may need heart transplant.

from me: So, this is gnarly shit. Sounds like the only chance of even having a 30% chance of not needing a heart transplant is to completely quit drinking. If you ask me, this chronic drinking connection has my name written all over it. I'd say that's exactly why I have this damn condition and exactly why quitting drinking will make it go away. Fuck, I'm 31 years old, I guess I really do know how to party like a rock star. I have to quit drinking, that's all there is to it. I'm glad it's because I annihilated my heart and not because I started missing work or turning into a pussy...

"Go listen to deicide or bathory or somesuch.. never fails."

Thanks for the advice, I threw on some Bolt Thrower, the band that our buddy Dem made reference to while I was being videotaped blacked out in a pool of my own vomit. Man, I'm sitting here thinking about that....the Adam Carolla show....Haha! I don't know if I'm more stoked about how gnarly I've really been or bummed about the fact that it fucked my heart all up....doesn't really matter....I handled drinking and now I'm going to handle not drinking.....if this condition was due to smoking grass, I'd probably be buying a gun in a 24 hour pawn shop....nah.....but I'd be way more bummed.....-O

I don't know how much you guys know about my Mom's side of my family tree...every single leaf on it was fucked. Mom went through rehab eleven times and died of an annyeurism, her brother drank until his pancreas failed and he fell into a coma he came out of diabetic (and hasn't drink since), Mom's sister was committed to a loony bin for stabbing someone and continues to be a gnarly alcoholic, Mom's Dad drank, gambled, and blew his brains out, Mom's Mom sat next to the body of her dead second husband drinking for three days before even calling 911, ultimately died of cirrhosis of the liver, Mom's grandparents were fuckin gnarly, too...it's all the way up. In all honesty, I was resigned to the life of an alcoholic, pretty damn near made a career out of it. I don't see this as, "tone down the drinking", I see this as, "stop"....

[Arch Stanton]

Well, let's see if he mans up and doesn't go for the transplant and waste it and all that goes with it.

[Garm]

Steve o's suicide letter that he read the last time he was on the show, was some brilliant shit. Steve O rocks, wish him the best of luck. Having trouble finding it on foundry.

[nimsu]

How old is he now anyhow? If he is only 28, living til 40 sounds pretty promising. If he is 39, not good... not good at all

[sinAtra]

Steve O's rocks. Bam's set-up shite. But Mr O's done it all, for the camera and to himself. Sympathy? No - maybe he's run his course. Maybe the only thing he has left to pull off is death.

For some reason, wasabi snooters still makes me collapse with laughter, even now.

[Hog_Juice]

I pretty sure he's in his mid 30's , last DVD of his I watched he talked about being 35 and still partying like he was 21.

[sinAtra]

Hog_Juice, you have the best photo I have ever seen. How did you get that photo of me? I thought I destroyed that shit.

[Dickieboy]

The pool of Coke he has at home and the 40 heroin needles in his back pocket probably arent helping his condition at all .

but He is one crazy son of a bitch and a pretty good guest

[al885]

He needs to sack up and quit drinking

[Devilock]

He needs to sack up and quit drinking

Drinking is the least of his problems!

[kid afrika]

Everyone is dying.

[robertkeys]

there was a lot of gash walking around today