Ray Hadley’s health scare: ‘It hit me like a tonne of bricks’
Broadcaster Ray Hadley has spoken of being ‘hit like a tonne of bricks’ after being struck by an ongoing medical condition during his morning show earlier this week.
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Broadcaster Ray Hadley has spoken of being ‘hit like a ton of bricks’ after being struck by an ongoing medical condition during his morning show earlier this week.
The popular 2GB presenter told listeners “I’m about to have, I think, an attack” on Monday and was rushed to hospital after suffering another crippling bout of diverticulitis, an extremely painful inflammation of the gut.
“I was feeling fine, I was about to do the interview with Tracey Grimshaw… I walked out of the studio and it hit me like a tonne of bricks, “ Hadley told his stand-in host Mark Levy today.
“It was the worst attack I’ve had.”
Doctors have been fighting to bring Hadley’s recurring infection back under control this week. He plans to be back at his desk on Monday.
He said he had been feeling on top of the world when it struck. “Most people out there who suffer with it like I do will know exactly what I’m talking about,” he said at the time.
“It’s in the bowel and strikes you within minutes, and I got an attack last night and ended up on a drip here in hospital.”
“Yesterday I was on top of the world feeling really good, and about 10 minutes later I hit the deck … with a whole range of stomach pains and things like that. Then you recover from the original attack and what happens is, when I had it last time two years ago, I just thought I had bad gastric flu.”