Assemblyman Price returns home from the hospital

Wednesday, April 8, 1998 | 9:28 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Assemblyman Bob Price, who suffered a heart attack March 24, has returned to his North Las Vegas home after a stay in a Reno hospital.

"I'm going to take it easy for a while," said the 61-year-old Democrat who underwent triple bypass surgery at Washoe Medical Center. "I can't drive a car for a month."

But the illness won't stop his bid for re-election to the Assembly, where he was first elected in 1974. The second senior member of the House said he still plans some door-to-door campaigning.

Price added that he's going to sign up for classes on proper eating and exercising.

Price, who was released from the hospital Monday, was in Reno March 24 to attend a meeting the following day of the Legislative Interim Finance Committee.

When he suffered the heart attack at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport he passed out and a tourist, Rosalind Clarke of Aptos, Calif., administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Legislative Police Officer Hans Rollenhagen, who was there to drive Price to Carson City, performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Price said he was unconsciousness for three to four minutes and he is "lucky to be alive."