Ray Hadley will be back on air on Monday, 2GB reveals
Broadcaster Ray Hadley will be back on air on Monday after doctors wrestled his temperature and recurring infection back under control.
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Broadcaster Ray Hadley will be back on air on Monday after doctors wrestled his temperature and recurring infection back under control.
The popular 2GB presenter had told listeners “I’m about to have, I think, an attack” on Monday and was rushed to hospital.
The recurrence of diverticulitis, an extremely painful inflammation of the gut, then infected his blood and presenter Mark Levy was forced to stand-in for the rest of the week.
A Macquarie Media spokesman said: “Ray’s feeling much better, and will be released from hospital in coming days.
“His temperature and infection is now under control. He will return to air on Monday.”
Hadley released a statement telling listeners: “I’m currently in hospital having been admitted for the third time in 12 months for diverticulitis.
“I will be consulting my surgeon about a more permanent solution — which may well involve surgery during my summer break,” he said.
Hadley was felled by the same thing earlier this year while playing golf on a Friday afternoon after his show.
“It’s a rotten sort of thing … and there’s no cure,” he said on air afterwards.
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.”