Loose Women’s Andrea McLean has revealed a horrifying start to her year after she collapsed at home and was rushed to hospital, following further tragedy for the ITV panel.
It’s been a rocky start for the all-female panel, and now the 55-year-old TV presenter shared that she was “in a lot of pain” following her diagnosis with severe pneumonia, acute kidney injury and sepsis.
Recounting the terrifying incident, Andrea, who hosted Loose Women until 2020, revealed how she “collapsed in the bathroom” and “lay there for an hour before my husband [Nick Feeney] found me.”
In her blog post, Andrea detailed: “We rang the GP who told us to call 999 immediately. The ambulance team were amazing. My blood pressure was so low I couldn’t stand, and I was in a lot of pain. To be honest, I was barely aware of what was happening, other than trying to be helpful.
“Our bedroom is in the loft, up a steep, narrow flight of stairs, which meant the stretcher couldn’t turn, so getting me out was challenging. We eventually got out the house, and I can now say with confidence that travelling in the back of an ambulance isn’t as much fun as you think it would be.”
Andrea went on to say: “I can’t remember much about AandE other than it was thorough. Questions, scans, lots of needles, and possibly the most painful insertion of a catheter ever experienced. Then my X-ray and CT scans came back. I had severe pneumonia, Acute Kidney Injury and sepsis.
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“Things happened quickly; drips, super-strong antibiotics via IV and orally, and I was transferred to the Emergency Assessment Ward”. Following a two-night stay in hospital, Andrea shared her traumatic experience of “sensory overload”, describing the environment as filled with “screams, shouting and the sound and smell of poo from people losing control of their bowels.”
Medical professionals also discovered that Andrea had lost 80% capacity in one of her lungs, and prescribed her morphine for this. Updating fans further, she added: “It’s now February, and I’m still not well enough to handle normal stuff like getting up and rushing out the door to do the jobs I’d been booked to do, because every part of that process would end with me falling down, or at the very least sitting on a tube station floor feeling very unwell and embarrassed at the stares.
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“I’m still having ‘funny turns’ while out for a walk, or attempting the mildest of exercise. It means I haven’t really started 2025 yet.”
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