Kuya Kim will undergo heart surgery Monday

Barely two months after a mild stroke landed him in the hospital last August, Kuya Kim Atienza will under go a heart surgery to correct a hole in his heart.

Kuya Kim and wife Felicia: Will tweet from his sick bed

It’s not an open-heart surgery, though.

“It’s a catheter-based procedure like an angioplasty,” Kim told Funfare Update. “The doctors will insert the device to close the hole in my heart through a blood vessel in my leg. My condition is called patent foramen ovale or a hole in the heart which pumps blood straight to my brain causing a stroke. That was the cause of my stroke last August.”

An open-heart surgery is invasive and will take the patient six months to recuperate. Kuya Kim will be in the hospital for only a few days and then he will rest for a maximum of two weeks, which is the length of time he will be on leave from ABS-CBN’s Showtime. Last August, he took a longer leave.

So upbeat is Kuya Kim that he told Funfare Update, “I will tweet and text while I am in the hospital. I will see if we can have the procedure shown on TV, It will be revolutionary…good advocacy and good TV.”

Kuya Kim and his wife Felicia have three children — Jose, 8; Meimei, 6; and Emman, 4.

Danica Flores is named Supermodel

Danica Flores Magpantay, 17, was named 2010 Supermodel of the World-Philippines at ceremonies held at SM Mall of Asia last Sunday, Oct. 31, as finale for the Philippine Fashion Week Spring-Summer Event. Standing 5’9”, Danica is a B.S. Fine Arts student (majoring in Visual Communication) at UP Diliman. Her sister Danielle made it to the Top 8.

The two are daughters of Lala Flores, 1990 Supermodel of the Philippines who is now a renowned make-up artist. Now you know from whom the girls took after.

Past Supermodels who became beauty queens include Marilen Espino (1988), Bb. Pilipinas-World 1992; Cara Subijano (1991), Bb. Pilipinas-World 1994; and Abbygale Arenas (1992), Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 1997.

2009 Supermodel Chat Almarvez placed first runner-up in the international search in Brazil and is now a most sought-after model in New York and Europe. — Reported by FELIX MANUEL, one of Funfare’s ‘beauty experts’

What’s up?

• Here’s Fr. Joey Faller’s healing schedule for the rest of November: Today, 7:30 p.m. at the Healing Eucharist Loving Partner, SVD Compound; Nov. 5, 12:15 p.m. at Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord, SM Megamall; Nov. 6, 10, 13, 17, 20 and 24, 9:30 a.m. at Kamay ni Hesus, Lucban, Quezon, with Anticipated Mass at 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, same venue; Nov. 7, 6 a.m. at ABS-CBN, 8 a.m. at NBN Channel 4 and 9:30 a.m. at SM North EDSA; Nov. 12, 3 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Basilica, Tayabas, Quezon; Nov. 14, 9 a.m. at SM Bacoor, Bacoor, Cavite; Nov. 15, 3 p.m. at St. Peter Martyr, Sual Pangasinan; Nov. 16, 9:30 a.m. at Buklod ng Pag-ibig Healing Center, Balete Drive Ext., Quezon City; Nov. 19 in Cebu; Nov. 21, 8 a.m. at NBN Channel 4; Nov. 27, 1 p.m. at Kerygma Conference at the PICC; and Nov. 28, 9 a.m. at SM Bacoor, Bacoor, Cavite.

• Vivian Sarabia (rejoinder to this corner’s story about The Beatles’ In My Life): Nasa last will ko na ‘yang song, to be played at my wake kasama ng Imagine. Hahaha!...From Bonjin Bolinao (reacting to the same story): I ended reading your column by singing the song. Ahhh, nostalgia sets in. I remember paying something like P10 for a bleacher seat in Rizal Memorial when The Beatles came in the ‘60s. Then they were sent off with a big boo by Imelda Marcos fans because the Fab Four refused to go to the Palace. How ironic!...From reader Amy Wannamaker: You mentioned that David Foster wrote the song I Will Always Love You. No, he did not. It was Dolly Parton who wrote it in 1973 and recorded it the following year.

• Again, a disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the Twitter account RickyLo Exclusives. Like Tempo’s Ronald Constantino, I don’t have a Twitter account and a Facebook account. Whoever created our websites is a fake, an impostor whose identity will be exposed soon.

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