Jeremy Clarkson‘s girlfriend Lisa Hogan has spoken out on her husband’s health after he revealed he had undergone an urgent heart operation.
The 64-year-old former Top Gear host was ‘maybe’ days away from death when he underwent two hour surgery after a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health.
He started to feel unwell after swimming in the Indian Ocean while on a ‘small island’ on holiday and later found it difficult to climb a flight of stairs.
Taking to Instagram on Monday morning, Lisa shared a snap of Jeremy outside at his farm. ‘Patient out and about,’ she captioned the snap.
Hours earlier, she had updated fans on his health as she wrote: ‘Patient update. @jeremyclarkson1 is now 2 stents heavier and I’m a lot happier about that. Lovely messages from so many. Tanks!’
Jeremy Clarkson ‘s girlfriend Lisa Hogan broke her silence on her husband’s health on Instagram on Monday after he revealed he had undergone an urgent heart operation
The 64-year-old former Top Gear host was ‘maybe’ days away from death when he underwent two hour surgery after a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health (Pictured with Lisa in 2017)
Comedian Jason Byrne shared his support for Jeremy as he related it to his own health battle.
‘He’ll be grand Lisa,’ Jason Byrne commented. ‘I had six stents, due to mammy n daddy Irish genes.
‘I’ve been flying since. His blood flow will get to all sorts of places now ❤️ every cloud.’
Jeremy returned to Britain after the beginning of his health woes and a ‘sudden deterioration began to gather pace’ with him feeling ‘clammy’, ‘tightness in my chest’, and ‘pins and needles in my left arm’.
Alex Salmond‘s recent tragic death from a massive heart attack had sparked the motoring journalist to see his GP.
It comes as the star posted on Instagram today that his dog had also gone under the knife this week in what he referred to as a ‘s**t week’.
The worrying health update comes just two days after Clarkson appeared on a post on his Instagram account with what seemed to be a white surgical plaster on his wrist.
Clarkson wrote in his column in The Sunday Times how he felt ‘mostly dead’ after returning to the beach after a short swim.
Hours earlier, she had updated fans on his health as she wrote: ‘Patient update. @jeremyclarkson1 is now 2 stents heavier and I’m a lot happier about that. Lovely messages from so many. Tanks!’
Taking to Instagram on Monday morning, Lisa shared a snap of Jeremy outside at his farm. ‘Patient out and about,’ she captioned the snap (Lisa and Jeremy pictured in 2021)
Comedian Jason Byrne shared his support for Jeremy as he related it to his own health battle
Jeremy had the operation after a ‘sudden deterioration’ in his health. Clarkson in an Instagram post just two days ago with what seemed to be a surgical plaster on his wrist
The 64-year-old former Top Gear host started to feel unwell after going for a swim in the Indian Ocean while on holiday and later found it difficult to climb a flight of stairs.
He spent the rest of his break on a tropical island eating cheese and drinking wine.
It was only when he returned to Britain and he was loading 30 pigs onto a ‘slaughterhouse school bus’ that he noticed pins and needles in his left arm.
He then went to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford via an ambulance, where a heart attack was ruled out after he had an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests and X-rays.
He said he then went to an ‘operating theatre’ on Wednesday, after further checks, and doctors said he was perhaps ‘days away’ from death.
Once there he was fitted with a stent to his hold his arteries open, to improve blood flow to his heart and relieve his chest pain.
A stent is a wire mesh tube that props open arteries. To open the narrowed artery, the surgeon may perform what’s known as an angioplasty.
This involves making a small incision in a patient’s arm or leg, through which a wire with an attached deflated balloon is thread through up to the coronary arteries
Describing what he called the ‘wearisome effects of growing old’, Clarkson said: ‘It seems that of the arteries feeding my heart with nourishing blood, one was completely blocked and the second of three was heading that way.’
He said a stent, which can save lives and stop future heart attacks through improving blood flow to the heart, was fitted in around two hours.
The motoring journalist said: ‘It wasn’t especially painful. Just odd,’ and added that he has been thinking: ‘Crikey, that was close.’
Clarkson posted a video on Instagram this week about the books he read while on his recent holiday and said none were as good as his Diddly Squat Home to Roost
Clarkson posted on Instagram today that his dog had also gone under the knife this week, suffering from pyometra, in what he referred to as a ‘s**t week’