Below Deck’s Fraser Olender is on the road to recovery after being hospitalized in London.

“To keep it simple — I had vape poisoning, (an E-cigarette or Vaping-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)) and I have never experienced fear or pain like it,” Olender, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday, December 5, with photos from his emergency room visit. “Whatever was in my vape caused me to have a coronary artery vasospasm.”

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a coronary artery spasm is a quick tightening of the blood vessels that deliver blood to your heart muscle. Patients can experience chest tightness or pain extending from their chest to their neck, arms or jaw.

Olender added the spasm “reduced blood flow enough to cause an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), better known as a heart atta

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