dean ornish didn't see it that way. >> so i wrote him a letter. to me are friends that tell me what i need to hear, not what i want to hear. your genes are not your fate and i say this not to blame you but to empower you and i'm happy to work with you in whatever extent you want to move forward in that way. we met a few days later and he was ready to do it. >> i essentially concluded that i just played russian roulette because even though i had changed my diet some and cut down on the caloric total of my ingestion and cut back on how much high-cholesterol food i was eating, i still -- without any scientific basis to support what i did was taking in a lot of extra cholesterol and clearly my body didn't dispose of it and clearly that's why i had that blockage. i should have changed after the surgery. >> coming up -- president clinton transforms his diet to save his heart. >> and what is life like after heart surgery? tom bare's painful recovery and his complications. >> walked about .3 mile and it was excruciating. >> also, she said no to surgery an