The 34-year-old — one half of Busby Marou — was playing touch football in Rockhampton last week when he started feeling light-headed.
"I just thought I was puffed and unfit," he said.
"There was tightening across my chest ... it was all the things I had read about, all the signs.
"I still didn't think that was it, but I had a good crew around me that got me to the hospital."