Text Callout : Key Takeaways: Best Sleeping Positions After Open-Heart Surgery . In 2014, seemingly healthy 24-year-old Brittany Williams suffered sudden cardiac arrest at a Manhattan restaurant.

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Sandra Bernhard revealed that she recently underwent open-heart surgery, then faked a heart attack on stage, during the first night of her debut residency at New York City’s Café Carlyle.

In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had a 50 percent mortality rate. Today it is less than 1 percent. Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via STAT News. My heart was breaking, but not from lost love.

“I found that sleeping after open-heart surgery was far more challenging than I had anticipated, and it was something no one fully prepared me for,” says Williams, 34, of St. Petersburg, Florida.