Breaking News/Sports: Francona Taken To Hospital

NEW YORK (AP) -- Boston manager Terry Francona was taken to a hospital Wednesday with tightness in his chest, and was expected to miss the Red Sox's afternoon game against the Yankees.

Francona, who turns 46 on April 22, said all morning he was not feeling well, according to general manager Theo Epstein. Francona was taken by ambulance to New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, where he has relationships with several doctors.

"He was taken to the hospital for precautionary tests," Epstein said. "He had all his faculties about him, he was just going for tests."

Francona took the 8 a.m. team bus to Yankee Stadium and began his routine, even fulfilling media obligations despite not feeling well.
*********************************************************************
Link:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/04/06/francona.hospital.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

That said, I hope Francona does too.

...in the past year my father went into cardiac arrest and had a quad bypass and my cousin had a heart attack last week and ended up with a stint in one artery.

Sounds like it also could be something like a pulmonary embolus. In any case, nothing to mess around with.