Drew Carey<\/a> has opened up about how he ignored heart attack symptoms in 2001 because of misconceptions he\u2019d picked up from cartoons.<\/p>\n Appearing on the latest episode of Ted Danson<\/a>\u2018s Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/em><\/a> podcast, the The Price is Right<\/em><\/a> host recalled experiencing an increased heart rate and numbness while jogging, which he brushed off because he didn\u2019t clutch his chest and fall down.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really overweight, and we were supposed to come back to taping,\u201d Carey said, per Fox News Digital<\/a>, referring to his hit sitcom The Drew Carey Show<\/em><\/a>, which aired from 1995 to 2004 on ABC. \u201cSo, I had a little chest heart monitor and whatever. And I was jogging down my street, and my heart rate went up to like 160 or something like that, like really crazy, and I was like, \u2018Oh.\u2019 And I felt, like, numb in my shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n Carey told Danson he was experiencing all the usual heart attack symptoms, \u201cbut I thought if you had a heart attack, you would go\u00a0ugh\u00a0and fall down like in a cartoon. I thought that\u2019s what happened when you had a heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, he slowed down, but as soon as he started jogging again, his heart rate would shoot right back up. He said he even passed a deer during his run, which is \u201csupposed to be an omen about something.\u201d<\/p>\n Carey decided not to go to the hospital and later that day went to a restaurant with his girlfriend, where he ate chili spaghetti. \u201cYeah, after having a heart attack,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n The Drew Carey Show; \u00a9 Warner Bros. \/ Courtesy: Everett Collection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After promising to call a doctor the next day, Carey returned to taping his sitcom and, after rehearsals, said he \u201cfelt okay.\u201d But as soon as the rehearsals finished, he once again experienced a tightness in his chest.<\/p>\n Carey excused himself to go to his trailer and call a doctor. \u201cI went to step up the stairs to my trailer, I really went like, \u2018Oh boy, that was rough.\u2019 And I got on the phone to the producer,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018Hey, you have to call the ambulance. I think I\u2019m having a heart attack.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n He also said he called his friend Sam Simon<\/a>, who co-developed The Simpsons<\/em><\/a> and served as director on The Drew Carey Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, Sam came over to my trailer, and I go, \u2018Hey man, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening, but I\u2019m on my way to the hospital,’\u201d Carey shared. \u201cI just wanted to make sure I touched him before I went off because I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n