BBC Strictly's Amy Dowden 'unresponsive' and given 16 hours to live as she took turn for worse
15.03.2024 - 11:27
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Strictly pro Amy Dowden recently shared a harrowing tale of her battle with breast cancer. The talented dancer was hospitalised last year after she fell into septic shock during her first round of chemotherapy for stage 3 breast cancer, which doctors had discovered in May.
Opening up on her experiences on the Crisis What Crisis? podcast with Andy Coulson, Amy revealed how she fell unconscious and was close to dying due to a severe infection, similar to the one that once claimed her aunt's life. Despite falling critically ill at her home, medical experts originally reassured her husband Ben and parents that she could be back home soon.
The following day, however, things deteriorated when Amy developed sepsis. Thankfully, Amy is now cancer-free after a series of extensive tests, but the memory of the horrifying experience still haunts her.
On the podcast, reports the Mirror, she remembered her family's distress: "My parents went into meltdown mode, Ben went into protection mode of them, and when they got to the hospital I wasn't in the room. I was having an emergency CT scan and my mum had to walk away."
She continued the story by adding, "My husband said that he'd said my heart rate and my blood pressure was so low that I probably wouldn't function more than sixteen hours, my organs would go into failure. They felt I'd gone into septic shock."
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Her recollections turned even more poignant as she narrated about seeing her parent's distressed faces while recovering from her health episode.
She said: "I saw the pain in my parents' eyes, and I don't think they've been the same since. It was so tough for them to have