Broadcaster Richard Bacon has tweeted he is alive and recovering after doing “six days straight in a coma”.
He said on Monday morning in a tweet which has since been deleted: “So I did 6 days strght in a coma. Been here another 4 since. It’s an yet unidentified double chest infection. I nearly died. At one point, as I was as run down a hallway to ICU at midnight with a massive needle jammed in my chest (bit like Pulp Fiction) I thought, this is it.”
He has since said that his condition is now being treated as an unidentified double chest infection.
In reply to David Baddiel earlier today asking if he was actually tweeting, he said: “Ha. I am alive. Or in Lewisham. Or somewhere between the two.”
Richard was being treated for pneumonia before his condition took a turn for the worse and had to be put into a medically induced coma, 90 minutes after entering Lewisham hospital 11 days ago.
“Mum, can you pass me my walking frame?” Is a phrase I never expected to utter.
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) July 16, 2018
“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence." — Mister Rogers”. I’m learning this.
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) July 16, 2018
Low on energy but I love and admire all the team LEWISHAM HOSPITAL. VivaTheNHS. This Guardian article is accurate @ Borough of Lewisham, London https://t.co/r88WevbbjB
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) July 16, 2018
“Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving." From The World of Mister Rogers
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) July 16, 2018
Posted on Monday, July 16th, 2018 at 4:53 pm by RadioToday UK