While a person can live their whole life without even knowing they have situs inversus, it can cause complications, especially when the heart is involved.
“I’m one of seven kids,” O’Hara—mom to sons Matthew, 31, and Luke, 27, with Welch—continued. And while her parents “had left the world” by the time she found out, driving home from the doctor that day she was “wondering about my other siblings, if they know where their hearts are.”
Coincidentally, she called one of her brothers, only to hear from her sister-in-law that he had undergone quadruple bypass surgery that day. But, O’Hara noted, his heart was on the left side.
“So,” she added with mock-severity, “he kind of scooped my story that day.”
Not to mention, O’Hara recalled, when the doctor told the actress that her heart and other organs were flipped, her husband immediately interjected, “No, her head’s on backwards.”
A vintage O’Hara moment.
