{"id":171695,"date":"2023-03-02T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=171695"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:29:53","slug":"jeremy-paxman-was-rushed-to-hospital-twice-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/jeremy-paxman-was-rushed-to-hospital-twice-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Paxman was rushed to hospital twice last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ex-Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman was rushed to hospital twice last month following fears he suffered a heart attack at home<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Broadcaster &#8216;seized&#8217; by strong chest pain while &#8216;minding own business&#8217; at home<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paxman took a taxi to A&amp;E as ambulance workers were striking on the same day\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jeremy Paxman has revealed he was rushed to hospital twice in two days last month following fears he suffered a heart attack while watching squirrels out of his window &#8211; before injuring himself again hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Newsnight presenter said he was &#8216;seized&#8217; by a strong chest pain while he was &#8216;minding his own business&#8217; at home.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster, 72 &#8211; who was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s in 2021 &#8211; said the incident happened while there were ambulance strikes ongoing in February, so he took a taxi to A&amp;E with his partner.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Paxman&#8217;s partner, book editor Jillian Taylor, 43, broke her ankle in a freak accident while popping back home to check on their dog.<\/p>\n<p>And when Paxman finally got back to their London home the next day, he suffered another injury by his desk and had to go back to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/02\/09\/68251357-11811423-image-a-2_1677749314686.jpg\" height=\"911\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Paxman, pictured with a stick last year, has revealed he was recently hospitalised twice in two days following fears he suffered a heart attack at home while watching squirrels out of his window.<\/p>\n<p>Paxman told Saga magazine that after he was patched up he looked like a &#8216;ninth-century Irish monk&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I was minding my own business, watching a family of squirrels chasing up and down the tree outside my window when I was seized by a pain in my chest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have read enough to know that heart attacks are usually accompanied by pains down the arm, though I couldn&#8217;t remember which one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Since both seemed to be in working order, I assumed I was all right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not all right enough for my partner, who, instanter, deemed I was in need of attention at the A&amp;E department of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where I was speedily admitted and examined by quite a charming German-born cardiac specialist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was a 24-hour ambulance strike that day, so I assume most of my fellow patients, like me, had been delivered to the hospital by taxi (by now it was past 10pm).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At midnight, my partner remembered we had left the dog at home, and Derek would be needing a bit of pavement or failing that, steps at the house of the hearest high court judge. She took a taxi home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She emerged from the taxi to fall straight into a hole dug for gas-mains repairs, breaking her ankle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/02\/09\/68251355-11811423-image-a-3_1677749342459.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Newsnight presenter said he was &#8216;seized&#8217; by a strong chest pain while he was &#8216;minding his own business&#8217; at home<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After she passed an uncomfortable night at home, the fracture necessitated visit number two to A&amp;E the following day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That evening, I returned home to be told I was breathing oddly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Suddenly, with no warning, I was attacked by my chair and thrown against the leg of my desk. There was an awful lot of blood on the floor and the back of my shirt.\u00a0Back to A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sometime well after midnight, I was allowed home with my head glued together, looking all the world like a tonsured ninth-century Irish monk who had got involved in a rather vicious punch-up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Paxman revealed last year that his doctor\u00a0diagnosed him with Parkinson&#8217;s disease after noticing that he was less &#8216;exuberant&#8217; on University Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He said the diagnosis came when he was in hospital after collapsing while walking his dog in April 2021, and one of the doctors noticed his face\u00a0had acquired a &#8216;Parkinson&#8217;s mask&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well, it was completely out of the blue,&#8217; Paxman said of the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was having a walk in the square across the way. There was ice around and I had the dog with me \u2013 the dog was on a lead. The first thing I knew was when somebody was sitting me on a bench. I&#8217;d fallen over and I made a terrible mess of my face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d gone straight down on my hooter, which, as you can see, is not small. Cuts all over the place. I was a real mess. And when I was in A&amp;E, a doctor walked in and said &#8216;I think you&#8217;ve got Parkinson&#8217;s&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And it turned out that he had been watching University Challenge and had noticed that my face had acquired what&#8217;s known as the Parkinson Mask. I wasn&#8217;t as effusive and exuberant as normal. 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