Guitarist says medical ordeal left him “very near death”.

Queen's Brian May feels "incredibly grateful" after recovering from a small heart attack that left him "very near death.".

Queen’s Brian May revealed that he’s feeling “incredibly grateful” after recovering from a “small heart attack” that left him “very near death.”.

And it’s only part of a complicated medical ordeal for the guitarist, who was recently hospitalized after ripping his gluteus maximus in what he calls a “bizarre gardening accident.” That incident left May in debilitating pain that puzzled his doctors.

“That’s why I had this feeling,” he said, “that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back the whole time.” (“Why did those discs in my spine get so squished?” May mused in the post’s caption. “Well I think 50 years of running around with a guitar strap over my left shoulder holding a heavy guitar might have something to do with it!”)!

“In the middle of the whole saga of the whole painful backside, I had a small heart attack?

“I was actually very near death because of this, but the pain that I had was from something completely different, it’s funny how things work

Hmm … Sheer Heart Attack eh

I wondered if it might upset some people who had actually had heart attacks

Well I think 50 years of running around with a guitar strap over my left shoulder holding a heavy guitar might have something to do with it