Pat Sajak feared he would die when he underwent emergency surgery last month

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The Wheel of Fortune host recalled this morning on Good Morning America feeling a "horrific" pain that was "quick and intense." “You couldn’t do anything. I was in (a) fetal position, lying on the bed,” he said of having a blocked intestine. “They try to give you various drugs for the pain. And none of it was working. And then they gave me something, I couldn’t even tell you the name of it, but suddenly, I wasn’t thinking about the pain. I just had these beautiful pastels and lovely faces coming out of it.” Sajak added: “In the background, I could hear my wife and daughter talking. It sounded like they were a mile off, but they were right next to me. They were talking to each other. And I remember thinking, not in a morbid way, ‘I think this must be death. This must be what death is like.'" Sajak said that since his surgery was successful, he could go back to living a normal life. ALSO: Sajak warned Vanna White to stay off social media to avoid negative comments while she was guest-hosting Wheel of Fortune.