Louise Thompson and her fiancé Ryan Libbey broke down in tears as she addressed her ‘painful’ past few weeks on their podcast after a terrifying hospital dash last month.
The Made In Chelsea star, 34, was rushed in for emergency keyhole surgery after suffering life-threatening Peritonitis before going into septic shock.
Peritonitis is an infection of the inner lining of your stomach. Left untreated, it can become life threatening, according to the NHS.
In the episode on the couple’s He Said, She Said podcast, Louise was overcome with emotion as she spoke about the hospital ordeal for the first time.
‘If you want to, maybe you could let the listeners know exactly what happened’, Ryan said.
Louise said: ‘To be honest I took a whole load of pain killers and nothing scratched the surface. I was writhing around in pain all night and at about 4am, I think I’d managed to finally drift off a little bit.
Louise Thompson and her fiancé Ryan Libbey, both 34, broke down in tears as she addressed her ‘painful’ past few weeks on their podcast after a terrifying hospital dash last month
In the episode on the couple’s He Said, She Said podcast, Louise and Ryan was overcome with emotion as she spoke about the hospital ordeal for the first time
‘I was hit with a really excruciating level of pain and I will say this is the most amount of pain I’ve been in, in my life.
‘I’ve probably said that a number of times before but this was a whole different level and immediately excruciating. I knew from that moment that this was really bad.’
She added: ‘My mother took me [to hospital], So I was bent over her front seat like screaming, screaming just get me there, get me there. We got there but I couldn’t sit so I couldn’t have a canular in. The pain was so bad it was shooting up to my chest.
‘I thought if I don’t die with what ever is inside of me, I’m going to die from the sheer pain of it because I feel like I’m going to have a heart attack.
‘Eventually they managed to get me some morphine and it still didn’t really help with the pain. Some time was spent in the dreaded A&E and I got moved to resus and I got seen.
‘And there is a period of time where I don’t really know how I got through in the moment before being seen and being taken to the theatre.
‘It’s a bit of a blur. I had something called Peritonitis, which can be life-threatening, it’s really dangerous. I basically had septic fluid exploding all around my abdomen, like free fluid. That can then be very damaging to your organs.’
She added: ‘I feel embarrassed, I genuinely feel embarrassed that this is happening because I just feel that my body has let me down.’
The Made In Chelsea star was rushed in for emergency keyhole surgery after suffering life-threatening Peritonitis before going into septic shock
She said: ‘It’s a bit of a blur. I had something called Peritonitis, which can be life-threatening, it’s really dangerous. I basically had septic fluid exploding all around my abdomen, like free fluid. That can then be very damaging to your organs’
She added: ‘It is really challenging feeling like you are stuck again, unable to move and trapped in a bed. One thing that was different this time to my other experiences, which was not great, was that I had these awful hallucinations’
Louise underwent surgery ‘in the same tummy area that she’s been recovering from since earlier this year with her stoma surgery
‘I was very lucky, they didn’t have to cut me right down the middle. They managed to do keyhole surgery so they went in in three different places and did a big wash out.
‘They cleaned me up inside and then I woke up. Everything felt so noisy in the recovery room, I just felt so overstimulated and then I got taken to ICU and had a week there to recover.’
After surgery, Louise explained she was in a ‘vegetated’ state and had a ‘catheter coming out of her wee hole, a tube coming out of her bum hole which was pulling on her stitches and had three tubes coming out of her stomach.’
She added: ‘It is really challenging feeling like you are stuck again, unable to move and trapped in a bed.
‘One thing that was different this time to my other experiences, which was not great, was that I had these awful hallucinations.’
Ryan, 34, asked: ‘Do you feel unlucky?’
Quivering, Louise said: ‘Umm. There are many times I’ve been in the right place at the right time.
‘Many things have played in my favour. I feel guilty often that there are many people who have been involved, like you.
‘I feel pretty bad about that.’
Ryan said: ‘I knew I was going back into the breaches with you and having to see you suffer.’
Sharing a teaser clip of the episode on Wednesday, Louise wrote: ‘Back on the old podcast this morning. You can listen on your preferred platform.
‘Just look for ‘He said, She said’ or maybe my name.
‘L x
‘Kindness only please.’
Ryan previously explained during an episode at the beginning of November how he rushed his partner to A&E when she suffered agonising abdominal pain.
He said he had returned from a weekend visiting his family in Devon to find Louise ‘rolling around in heaps of pain’ at the London home their share with Leo.
By the early hours of the morning she could take no more and Ryan rushed her to A&E ‘and a few hours later she was on the operating table.’
Louise underwent surgery ‘in the same tummy area that she’s been recovering from since earlier this year with her stoma surgery. It was completely unexpected,’ Ryan told listeners.
Complications arose and she went into septic shock after the operation which Ryan explained ‘shows the severity of how bad things got.’
