Taylor Swift shared a health update about her father, Scott Swift, following his quintuple bypass surgery this year.
"He is doing incredibly well. My dad had an interesting summer. He actually had a quintuple bypass surgery and that's a really intense surgery so it all happened really quick," she shared on the New Heights podcast.
As per Cleveland Clinic, a heart bypass surgery is "a procedure to restore blood flow to areas of your heart. Artery blockages can cut off blood flow, causing heart attacks or heart attack-like symptoms. [A bypass surgery] restores blood flow by using blood vessels from other parts of your body to create a detour around blockages."
The singer relayed the learnings that his dad acquired from the experience. "I know he would want me to say this because he learned a lot through this process. He's had a healthy, perfect EKG (electrocardiogram) every year that he's gone in to get his physicals. Perfect EKG. But what found his five hard blockages in his heart was a resting stress test."
She went on: "So he's been telling all his friends, you need to get the stress test because that's actually preventative. If you can find that earlier you don't have to have a bypass surgery, you can sort out those blockages with stents and things that are a lot less invasive."
The pop star shared that she and her family took turns caring for Scott while he was still in the hospital, and even recounted a lighthearted story from that time.
"It was very parent-child reversal in a lot of ways like my brother, and my mom, and I were taking each shifts in the ICU and staying with him 24/7," she shared. "And I remember when I was a teenager the big fight we always had is I'd sneak my cellphone into my room and be talking to my best friend, Abigail, under the covers all night and they'd be like, 'You have a test tomorrow, you need to rest. We're taking your phone.'"
She went on: "I'd get to the hospital, my brother would have done the night shift and he's like, 'Tay, you got to take his phone. I caught him Facetiming his friends all night. He needs his rest... It's like we got to take our teenage son's phone away from him because he was Facetiming all night."
As he recovered over the summer in the U.S., the family moved in together to help him at home. "I'm having these moments when I'm like, this dude built play sets, and swing sets, and cribs for me. I'm building his shower chair, and his walker, and his bed goes [up and down] like this. It's just surreal man. We just all moved in with him for the whole summer pretty much, 'cause you can't really walk on your own. He had a little harness... just like walking dad in his harness. He was like the loveliest patient ever. He just kept saying thank you over and over again," she said. reflecting on the experience.