Carol Vorderman hospitalised after freak accident
TV presenter Carol Vorderman was rushed to hospital after she suffered a horror fall when she tripped over a tree root close to her home.
Carol Vorderman was rushed to hospital by ambulance after she tripped over a tree root and hit head her head on the pavement.
The 65-year-old TV presenter has revealed she suffered a concussion in the freak accident in late May - which occurred on a public footpath close to her home - and she was left battling vomiting and dizziness in the days after the emergency.
In a post on Instagram, Carole explained her absence from social media over the last few weeks, saying: "I’ve got a bit of a story to tell you about my concussion, which might also explain why I was a bit offline in June.
"So right at the very end of May, I was walking just outside my house on a public footpath, and I tripped over a tree root, which I didn’t see.
"And I went smash here on the tarmac path, and I was unconscious. I can’t remember what happened then, but I do know that an ambulance came, and I was taken to the BRI, Bristol Royal Infirmary.
"By the way, I also know that they were playing [Europe song] The Final Countdown in the ambulance on the way. It’s another story, but it did make me laugh."
Carol went on to reveal she continued to suffer from vomiting and dizziness after begin discharged prompting her to make another dash to hospital.
She said: "Discharged next day, massive vomiting, all the bad signs. Straight back into hospital, they were wonderful. The A E did all the CT scans and everything.
"Out again. I had the biggest black eye or bruises all down my face for three or four weeks.
"But what it did leave me with after about two or three weeks was dizziness. So I felt as though I was kind of walking on a moving ship, like sort of knocking into the wall a little bit."
Carol was introduced to the Epley technique - a step-by-step physical treatment - by her physiotherapist and it helped ease her vertigo with the TV star confirming she's now feeling much better.
She added: "When she did it the first time, I thought I was falling off the edge of the earth. Apparently, my eyes were going like in a cartoon. After the first session, 95 per cent of it [the dizziness] went ...
"It’s all about the inner ear and this little sort of sack of crystals that gets dislodged, and [the physioherapist] puts it back together again ... I am not a doctor. I am not advising people about this, but I’m just telling you what’s happened to me."
