Homes Under The Hammer’s Martin Roberts reveals doctors plunged an EIGHT INCH syringe into his chest to drain fluid from around his heart amid terrifying health ordeal
Homes Under The Hammer’s Martin Roberts has revealed that doctors plunged an eight inch syringe into his chest to drain fluid from around his heart.
The presenter, 58, suffered a terrifying health scare on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital in Bath with ‘hours to live’ for an operation following chest pains.
Now Martin has told how he had to undergo the scary procedure while still awake after suffering with excess of water around his heart that was preventing it from pumping correctly.
Oh dear: Homes Under The Hammer’s Martin Roberts has revealed that doctors plunged an eight inch syringe into his chest to drain fluid from around his heart
He told Ok! Magazine: ‘I watched as they drew out syringe after syringe after syringe of this liquid.
‘I was awake for this, but I was bit woozy. There was a tube that went in through my chest cavity, down into the sack around my heart.’
They then pulled the fluid out and squirted it into ‘a plastic beaker’.
‘In the end there was about a litre and a half of stuff they took out. In my case, it turns to something called a cardiac tamponade, which is where it fills rapidly and starts strangling the heart. And that’s… that’s the killer. It can result in death.’
Ouch: The presenter, 58, suffered a terrifying health scare on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital in Bath with ‘hours to live’ for an operation following chest pains
Martin said he started to feel unwell over Easter Bank Holiday and feared he was suffering a heart attack before being taken to hospital by his wife Kirsty.
On Friday Martin told how he will have to stay in hospital for at least another two weeks due to a lung infection after undergoing the emergency operation for a heart condition which left him hours from death.
Former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! campmate Martin thanked ‘god and angels’ on social media this week after coming round from the operation but he has since revealed he expects to be in hospital for a while longer still.
He told The Sun: ‘I’m being transferred to the respiratory team today as they think it might have started with a serious lung infection.
Speaking out: The TV star took to Twitter to share a video explaining what had happened on Wednesday captioning the post: ‘So. Bit of a shocker. Thankfully I’m here to tell the tale…’
‘I may be in hospital for another two weeks.’
Taking to Twitter to share a video explaining what had happened this week, he captioned the post: ‘So. Bit of a shocker. Thankfully I’m here to tell the tale…’
Martin said: ‘Well, I have to say this isn’t where I expected to be watching Homes Under The Hammer.
‘Little bit of good news, little bit of bad news. I ended up in hospital in Bath yesterday.
Unexpected: Martin said: ‘Well, I have to say this isn’t where I expected to be watching Homes Under the Hammer,’ as he shared a shot of his hospital bed
‘I had a few chest pains and just feeling generally lousy, so I was brought in here and turns out I had a massive amount of fluid all around my heart, which was actually stopping my heart working.
‘Had they not got rid of it, which they did in an emergency operation last night, then it’s sort of quite serious, like, hours to live kind of c**p.
‘So here I am, still around, thank goodness, thank god and angels, all those things.’
He continued: ‘There’s lots of other complicated things that have happened as a result, but we will work through those, and I’ll keep you updated.
Health woes: The Homes Under The Hammer presenter (pictured with the series’ original presenter Lucy Alexander) had ‘fluid around the heart’ and had just ‘hours to live’
‘Meanwhile, there’s a good TV show on that I think I’ll watch here.’
It comes after he updated fans on the progress of his two-day ‘mercy dash’ to drive supplies to Ukraine in March.
Martin looked exhausted as he admitted to having just a few hours’ sleep as he prepared for the second leg of his journey, a 13 to 16 hour drive across Germany and Poland.
He revealed that he was going to drive a car packed full of supplies across Europe to help those affected by Putin’s attacks on Ukraine.
In a short clip, the tired star asked fans for song choices to get him through the long drive and said he was fuelled on ‘wine gums and lots of Red Bull’ but that he felt a a ‘massive responsibility’ to safely deliver the supplies to the Ukraine/Poland border.
Many expressed concern that the TV presenter had taken on too much in trying to drive for 26 hours with only a short break.
Doing good: It comes after he updated fans on the progress of his two-day ‘mercy dash’ to drive supplies to Ukraine in March
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