has given an exclusive update on her health following her recent dash to hospital. two weeks ago after being left “doubled down in agony” from a kidney stone.
A few days later she was back to work admitting that’s “what freelancers do” and doesn’t seem to have slowed down.
When asked in a new chat how she is at the moment and if she was terrified during the emergency, she told : “Oh my god it was horrific! I’m absolutely fine now, but everything they say about kidney stones is true!
“I’m happy it’s over and feeling as fresh as ever now – it’ll take more than that to keep me down!” She recently admitted that she was “praying” for doctors to operate because she couldn’t bear the pain.
Speaking on The Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5, Vanessa, 62, said: “I was felled. I was felled by a kidney stone. Who knew? One thing I was absolutely fine making lunch for the grandbabies, having a laugh, hungry, normal, everything.
Vanessa Feltz (R) with daughter Saskia (L) and grandson Amiel at a Hamleys last month (Image: Getty)
“And the next minute, the pain was absolutely extraordinary. And I’ve had natural childbirth twice, I’ve got some idea of pain, but this was remarkable.
“Actually remarkable. Anyway, in the end I had to be nuked with a laser.” She continued: “When they said, ‘if it’s over five millimetres, we’ll have to operate’, I was praying, please let it be over five millimetres.
“Please let them operate, because I couldn’t bear the thought of having to endure it for another second. I’m delighted to be here, I can’t tell you.”
The Daily Express columnist was having lunch with her two grandchildren on Sunday when she was struck down with sudden agonising stomach pain.
Speaking from the hospital this morning, : “I was having a normal Sunday lunch, with my beloved grandchildren AJ, five, and Cecily, two… then felt the most dreadful pain. I’ve given birth to two children naturally and have never felt anything like it. I was doubled over in agony.”
Her daughters, Allegra and Saskia, called 999 and the broadcaster was taken to hospital by ambulance from her home in north-west London where a scan revealed the kidney stone and she was operated on overnight.
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“It’s been fixed now, and I’m extremely grateful to all my first responders – from my daughters to all the nurses and porters, plus the much-needed anaesthetist and a wonderful surgeon,” said Vanessa. “Take it from me – an unwarranted hospital visit is no fun.”
She also passed on her sympathy to her fellow star Lottie Moss after it was revealed the model, younger half-sister to Kate Moss, had been hospitalised after an overdose of miracle drug Ozempic, which is used as an appetite suppressant.
“I found her funny, fragile, beautiful, insecure and a kind and sympathetic listener,” said Vanessa of the 26-year-old.
“As a yo-yo dieter unable to maintain my increasingly hard-won weight loss, I’d have once been grateful for an Ozempic prescription. Then the miracle drug wasn’t available and I ended up going under the knife for a gastric bypass.
“There’s nothing particularly wrong with Ozempic itself, which is a lifesaver for the chronically out-of-control overweight. Unfortunately the jabs are open to abuse.
“Unsafe copycat jabs are sold online and slim folk like Lottie think they’ll give them a whirl to shed a few surplus pounds. Ozempic is medication not recreation – and not to be taken by anyone but the clinically obese under qualified medical supervision.”