Taylor Swift shares update on dad's health after heart surgery
Taylor Swift is sharing an update on her dad Scott Swift's and mom Andrea Swift's health.
The pop superstar opened up about her parents in Wednesday's podcast episode of "New Heights," which is hosted by Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce and his older brother Jason Kelce.
Swift said her 73-year-old father is recovering following what she described as a "really intense" heart surgery in Florida earlier this summer.
"He's doing good," Swift said. "He is doing incredibly well. My dad had an interesting summer. He actually had a quintuple bypass surgery, and that's a really intense surgery."
The 35-year-old said that her dad previously had "perfect" electrocardiogram or EKG tests, a type of test doctors use to measure the electrical activity, rate, and regularity of a person's heartbeat, which they use to help diagnose heart conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, Swift said her dad subsequently went in for a nuclear stress test -- an imaging test in which stress is induced through exercise or pharmacologic agents to view how blood flows through the heart, according to StatPearls, an online library published in the National Library of Medicine -- and doctors found reduced blood flow in five areas in his heart that needed to be treated quickly.
Swift said her dad's major surgery brought their family, including her mom and brother Austin, closer and that they "all moved in with him for the whole summer," helping him both in and out of the hospital, an experience she called both "special" and "surreal."
"He came out of surgery, tried to give guitar picks to all the nurses and doctors, but he wasn't wearing pants. Didn't have pockets, hospital gown," Swift recalled. "I'm having these moments where I'm like, this dude built play sets and swing sets and cribs for me. I'm building his … shower chair and his walker ... Like, it's just surreal, man."
Swift also revealed that her mom also underwent surgery recently, getting a knee replacement.
"My mom just got a new knee. She's doing great," Swift said. "This was just, like, the summer of my parental upgrades. We're just upgrading the parents, making sure that they live to be at least 186 years old, because they're two of my best friends."
"It was actually one of the most special things that's ever happened to me, like, spending all that time with them this summer," she added.
