Former Loose Women star Andrea McLean has given an update on her health following a hospitalisation in February after she collapsed in her bathroom
Andrea McLean has opened up about bouncing back from her frightening health scare in December, which involved a dramatic collapse in her bathroom and an urgent hospital admission.
The 55-year-old ex-Loose Women presenter endured a week-long hospital stay where she was treated for severe pneumonia, acute kidney injury, and sepsis, during which she discovered that one lung had lost 80% of its capacity.
Now on the mend after a challenging few months, Andrea shared her renewed sense of well-being as she stepped out for her first big event post-recovery at Nick Ede and Alexandra Burke's Spring Ball in London. "I'm feeling really good now. This is actually my first real night out since it happened," she told the Mirror.
"It has been quite a long recovery process but I've slowed down my pace of life and I'm feeling really good." Andrea was suffering severe flu-like symptoms when she collapsed on her bathroom floor last year.
She was required to stay in hospital for several days, describing the experience as a 'sensory overload' with bright lights, yelling, screams, and the 'smell of poo' almost constant. Recounting the ordeal on Substack, Andrea said last month: "Like lots of people, I sucked it up, thinking it would pass in a week or so.
"After seven days of sweating and shivering, with a raging temperature and chills, and pain in my chest and back, my wee turned brown. I collapsed in the bathroom, and like the adverts you see on telly with the elderly, I lay there for an hour before my husband found me."
Thankfully, Andrea is now back home, though her recovery is still ongoing. Earlier this month, she paid A&E another visit after collapsing from getting out of bed 'too fast'.
She previously wrote on Instagram: "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 attended the recent Spring Ball alongside her husband, Nick Feeney. The event, which raises funds for stroke charities, is especially significant to Andrea due to a previous family ordeal.
"It is a cause close to me, my grandmother suffered a stroke. So yes, it's an important thing to raise awareness for," she told the Mirror.
