Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he and his family have faced another devastating blow which has come off the back of his near-fatal heart attack admission.
During his The Times column today, Clarkson admitted he recently found himself feeling ill and noticed symptoms of clamminess and tightness in his chest.
He initially dismissed the signs, but as they worsened, it forced him to seek medical attention immediately.
It isn’t just the former Top Gear star who has been facing some struggles recently, as he today revealed one of his beloved pooch had to go “under the knife”.
Posting a picture of the family member, he penned: “The poor thing is under the knife as we speak. She has pyometra. S**t week.”
Pyometra is a life-threatening infection of dogs’ wombs and can affect un-spayed female dogs, with treatment usually including surgery to remove the womb, and if untreated, can be fatal.
Fans of the star and his animals were quick to share their support, as one wrote underneath the post: “I’m really sorry, I hope she recovers.”
“I hope next week goes well for you Jeremy, I feel your pain,” another added before a third added: “Poor girl, hope it works out well.”
Someone else said: “Oh bless her, my dog had this last year... She was nearly 9 and recovered well. Speedy Recovery.”
“Hope the op goes well Jeremy and she recovers quickly,” another wished.
Jeremy Clarkson underwent emergency surgery
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Writing about his recent health scare, Clarkson penned: “Iwoke on Wednesday morning not feeling too good. I was clammy and there was a tightness in my chest.
"Naturally, I ignored these things and, after loading 30 pigs into the slaughterhouse school bus, I noticed that I had pins and needles in my left arm."
After arriving at the hospital, The Grand Tour star underwent a series of tests and scans to understand the reasons for his symptoms.
He went on: "Luckily, there's a lot of me, so there's a lot of skin to which ECG electrodes can be fastened.
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Jeremy Clarkson thanked those at the hospital who helped him
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"There were so many that with someone like Rishi Sunak, I suspect they'd have to fit some of them to the roof of his mouth and up each nostril.
"They then took blood and X-rayed me and wheeled in a vast range of portable machines that go ping. And pretty soon they all decided that I wasn't having a heart attack."
Concerned and pressing the doctor for an answer on whether he had just days to live, the answer was not what he hoped for, simply being told: “Maybe.”
The tests uncovered one of Clarkson's arteries was completely blocked, while another was severely narrowed.
Clarkson underwent an emergency procedure to insert stents and concluded: "Now, thanks to all those tremendous people at the John Radcliffe in Oxford and all of their extraordinary machines, here I am wondering what water tastes like and if it's possible to make celery interesting."
