‘I REMEMBER THINKING I WAS A GONER’
TV show to feature mum left in agony
A NORTH Staffordshire mum-oftwo has revealed how she thought she was going to die after suffering excruciating pain from a mystery illness.
Georgia Forrester was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital in an ambulance before tests were carrired out to locate the cause of the pain.
Now her story is set to be featured in the hard-hitting medical documentary 999: Critical Condition tonight at 9pm on Channel 5.
The 28-year-old, from Cheadle, said: “I was on my hands and knees and in absolute agony when I called 999 with crushing pain in my abdomen.
“It was like a tightening around my whole body and really took my breath away.
“I have had two babies without pain relief, and this pain was something else.
“I remember thinking in the ambulance that I was a goner.”
Georgia was treated at the hospital’s Major Trauma Centre, with Dr Andrew Bennet desperate to relieve her of her agony.
Georgia added: “I stayed in hospital for two days and had a number of tests and they all came back clear and didn’t know what was wrong with me.”
Now Georgia has been diagnosed
with sphincter of oddi dysfunction – a condition which creates a build-up of digestive juices in the pancreas and liver, and can lead to abdominal pain.
The episode will also see Trauma
Team Leader Dr Julie Norton as she battles to save two patients whose lives hang in the balance.
The first is a fatherof-four rushed into hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest – but the worry is whether he has suffered any lasting brain damage when his heart stopped.
Next a man arrives bleeding so heavily that he risks losing his entire circulatory system.
After falling from a roof and onto a skip, a patient is left with a gaping wound to his thigh.
But he also has potentially lifethreatening injuries to his pelvis and spine.
Finally, Michael has had a severe stroke and the blood supply to his brain is already shutting down.
Dr Sanjeev Nayak, above, UHNM stroke doctor, performs a thrombectomy to remove the clot in his brain, giving him the best chance of survival.