Rosie O'Donnell Has Heart Attack & Writes Poem: Will Her Work Save Lives?

Rosie O'Donnell revealed that she had a heart attack last Tuesday and posted a poem about the near-death experience on her blog.

The comedienne has publicly struggled with her weight ever since she stepped into the limelight in the 1980s and now that she's 30 years older her weight almost cost O'Donnell her life.

In the poem she detailed the events of the day, beginning, "i am happy to be alive," and then gets straight to the point when she says "last week i had a heart attack"

The former talk show host, 50, wrote that her arms and chest were sore on Tuesday after she helped "an enormous woman/struggling to get out of her car."

She continued that after she found out -- via a Google search -- that she might actually have been experiencing a heart attack, she merely took a Bayer Asprin instead of calling 911.

O'Donnell barely uses any punctuation throughout the poem and only uses capital letters to beg for people to "CALL" for 911 when they are not feeling well.

Though her poem is a little offbeat, the comedienne brings up a valid point -- more than 200,000 women die yearly from heart attacks, which is five times the toll from breast cancer, Women Heart, The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, verified. Women Heart also revealed that more women than men are affected by heart disease each year.

"Know the symptoms ladies/listen to the voice inside/the one we all so easily ignore," she wrote and tells women, "save urself."

Check out O'Donnell's poem about her heart attack in its entirety:

"its a semi-sunny Monday

the light bouncing off the flat hudson

mish is sitting next to me

i am happy to be alive

last week i had a heart attack

here is what happened

on tuesday morning

while walking in a parking lot in nyack

i heard a loud commanding voice

"can u help me"