TV and radio personality Vanessa Feltz has made her first appearance on screens since being rushed to hospital for emergency surgery
Vanessa Feltz has returned to TV for the first time since she was taken to hospital on Sunday after having suffered “extraordinary pain” that she says was worse than childbirth. The radio and TV presenter appeared on Jeremy Vine on Channel 5 on Wednesday and chatted about how she underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney stone. “I was felled by a kidney stone,” she told Jeremy on his show.
Jeremy asked her why the doctors didn’t wait for the stone to pass naturally, and she replied: “It was too big, it turned out. They scanned it, it was five millimetres, just a bit more than that. When they said, ‘If it’s over five millimetres, we’ll have to operate,’ I was praying, please let it be over five millimetres. Please let them operate because I couldn’t bear the thought of having to endure it for another second. I’m delighted to be here, I can’t tell you.
The veteran presenter had previously posted on Instagram from her hospital bed on Monday morning to update her followers and share details of the scary episode. “Good morning from the hospital, a bit of a surprise," she began. "Yesterday I was absolutely fine, completely fine and had the children - Saskia and the babies - over for lunch. I was completely fine, not anything wrong with me at all and then suddenly I got this pain and it was just absolutely extraordinary.
She revealed that she had been due to appear on LBC radio later on Sunday, but had to go to hospital instead. “Normally, I am quite a trooper with this stuff... I normally could be ill and I'll take a couple of paracetamol and just rock on. But there was no way I could, I just couldn't. So anyway, luckily managed to get seen at the hospital quite quickly, thank God, because I was just in agony.
The NHS explains that kidney stones like Vanessa’s are caused when waste products in the blood "form crystals that collect inside the kidneys. Over time, the crystals may build up to form a hard stone-like lump." Complications can include kidney infections or the kidney not working properly.
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