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Susannah Constantine has admitted that she thinks about her 'own mortality' first thing every morning following her 'life threatening neurological' scare.
The TV personality, 61, was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery last year after suffering from an arteriovenous fistula, which is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein.
Addressing her health on Thursday's Loose Women, she said she is now 'in a good place' and is less fearful.
Susannah explained: 'I feel fine. I had this weird neurological disorder and it was life threatening but at this age you just take these things on board.
'When you get older you become less fearful. But, I still think about my own mortality first thing every morning.'
Susannah Constantine has admitted that she thinks about her 'own mortality' first thing every morning following her 'life threatening neurological' scare
The TV personality, 61, was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery last year after suffering from an arteriovenous fistula, which is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein
Laughing she continued: 'I'm cool about it. I'm in a good place. I'm a wife and mother. a housewife that has to work and that's how I like it.'
Last year, Susannah was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery as doctors told her she was 'lucky to be alive'.
Speaking after the worrying ordeal in February, Susannah said she had initially brushed off her pins and needles symptoms in her arm.
Susannah told OK! magazine that she was given stark words of warning from doctors during the health crisis.
She said: 'They said "It's Hobson's Choice, if you don't have the operation, you've got a one in three chance of having a brain haemorrhage, being paralysed or having a stroke.
"If you do have surgery, you've got a one in ten chance of these same things happening during the operation."'
Susannah's condition is typically created surgically or appears as a result of a congenital or genetic abnormality.
It had led to bleeding into the capillaries, affecting her spinal cord and brain, and putting her at imminent risk of paralysis, a stroke, or a haemorrhage.
Addressing her health on Thursday's Loose Women, she said she is now 'in a good place' and is less fearful
Susannah explained: 'I feel fine. I had this weird neurological disorder and it was life threatening but at this age you just take these things on board.
She said: 'I had a health scare and a pretty major operation. It was a very rare thing where I had a leak – the arteries were bleeding into the capillaries and trapping the spinal cord, and affecting my brain.'
It was causing symptoms such as pins and needles in her arm, as well as a swollen left eye and tinnitus.
Susannah first spoke about the scary incident when she revealed she was rushed to hospital after struggling with a 'withering arm'.
The presenter took to Instagram to share that she'd been placed on a drip after the health scare, which turned out to be 'more serious' than she first thought.
Luckily, Susannah reassured her followers that the health problem was 'all sorted now,' and praised the 'magnificent' NHS and neurosurgeons for taking care of her.
Posting a snap of her arm connected to a cannula, Susanna wrote: 'Withered arm turned out to be symptom of something a bit more serious.
'All sorted now thanks to our ailing but still magnificent NHS where we are lucky enough to have some of the most gifted doctors (and in
