The 55-year-old TV star was back at hospital just months after losing ‘80% capacity’ in one lung last December
Andrea McLean was rushed to hospital in another health ordeal following her nightmarish pneumonia diagnosis. The Loose Women star face-planted on the bathroom floor this week after fainting from getting out of bed ‘too fast.’
Despite assuring fans that she was ‘really lucky’ to avoid broken bones or tooth loss, she showed off her bruised, black eye in a quick Instagram video. Writing in its caption, she confessed she hasn’t quite bounced back from her previous health struggle either, having lost ‘80% capacity’ in one lung last December.
“Black Eyed Peas… Both are relevant today,” she said. “Yup. I’ve got a shiner. I wish that I had a super exciting story as to why. I didn’t leap from a moving car or parachute off a building.
“Nope. I just woke up yesterday morning and got out of bed too fast, I guess before I’d properly woken up. By the time I’d walked the few steps to the bathroom I thought: ‘I don’t feel too good..’ and fainted. I landed on my face. Literally, face-planted onto the bathroom floor.
I have been checked out at A&E and thankfully my cheekbone isn’t broken, and I won’t lose any teeth. I was really lucky. Lesson learned. Take a moment. I’m not quite ‘better’ yet.”
Andrea was experiencing severe flu-like symptoms when she collapsed on her bathroom floor in a separate incident last December. After a dash to the hospital, medics explained that she not only had acute kidney injury and sepsis but severe pneumonia too, losing ‘80% capacity’ in one lung.
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She was hospitalised for several days, labelling the experience a ‘sensory overload’ with bright lights, yelling, screams, and the ‘smell of poo’ almost constant
This week’s incident follows Andrea’s nightmarish experience in hospital last December (
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Opening about about her ordeal on Substack, Andrea said last month: “Note to self; being a big brave girl and not saying how much pain you’re in when you’ve lost 80% capacity in one of your lungs to severe pneumonia and infection is not a smart move. Get on the strong stuff ASAP.”
Although she’s now back home, Andrea isn’t quite herself yet, as demonstrated by the black eye incident from this past week. But these health battles haven’t stopped her from taking on new challenges, as she explained on Instagram: “To the few hundred women I’m speaking on stage in front of tomorrow in Hull, excuse the shiner.
“Oh. And Black Eyed Peas because I have a black eye and I spent most of yesterday with a bag of peas on my face.”
