BBC Winterwatch’s Iolo Williams suffered heart attack and then walked a mile for help
BBC presenter Iolo Williams had to walk over a mile to get to safety after suffering a heart attack.
The host of Springwatch[1] and Winterwatch had gone for a long solo run last year when “like a bolt out of the blue” he got an “intense pain” under his sternum. He told the Mirror[2] that he knew it was a heart attack.
Iolo's car was a mile and a half away and he didn't have his phone, meaning he would have to find help on his own. He said: "I thought well, I can’t go down here.
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"So I walked on, crouched a little bit every now and again when the pain got a little bit worse. I got to my car, phoned for an ambulance and they said it would be 90-odd minutes.”
The star faced a long wait for the ambulance, so his wife took him to the hospital. He recovered but later had another health scare.
While working on a new series, Iolo suddenly struggled to put on his seatbelt and was rushed to the hospital. He was diagnosed with an embolism, which is a blocked artery caused by a foreign body such as a blood clot or air bubble.
The embolism had circulated his body for six weeks before it became lodged in a blood vessel, temporarily paralysing him. Fortunately, Iolo recovered fully and experienced no long-term effects.
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References
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