A STRICTLY Come Dancing star has been told she is “lucky to be alive” after her dramatic trip to hospital.
The BBC TV favourite, 61, initially brushed off symptoms of pins and needles in her arm.
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Strictly Come Dancing stars told they are ‘lucky to be alive’ after emergency medical treatmentCredit: PA
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Susannah Constantine starred with Anton Du Beke in season 2018. Credit: BBC
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Last year, the What Not To Wear host suffered a venous fistula – which required emergency surgeryCredit: Getty
Susannah Constantine, 61, has now revealed the doctor’s harsh words during her health crisis last year.
The What Not To Wear expert, who was paired with Strictly judge Anton Du Beke in the 2018 series, told OK! Magazine experts informed her that she is “really lucky to be alive.”
The Londoner said her neurosurgeon told her she needed immediate surgery – or risk paralysis or bleeding.
She added: “They said ‘It’s a Hobson’s choice, if you don’t have the operation you have a one in three chance of bleeding in the brain, being paralyzed or having a stroke.
“‘If you go into surgery, you have a one in 10 chance of the same things happening during surgery.’
She first hinted that something was wrong with her health when she posted a picture on social media showing her on a drip.
She then wrote: “The dry hand turned out to be a symptom of something a little more serious.
“It’s all fixed now thanks to our ailing but still magnificent NHS where we’re lucky enough to have some of the most gifted doctors (and in this case neurosurgeons) in the world. @brainandspine.
“Forever grateful.”
A year later, the mother-of-three has now clarified her condition as a venous fistula – which is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein.
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It is a rare condition that can be created surgically or as a result of a congenital or genetic abnormality.
Of Susanna’s condition, she added to the publication, “I had a health scare and a pretty major surgery.
“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.”
That explained the tingling in her arm – as well as the swollen left eye and tinnitus.
Last year, she also revealed her devastating diagnosis of hearing loss.
She spoke candidly of how she began to feel “frustrated” and “embarrassed” as she struggled to be heard.
She previously shared that she was afraid she would be diagnosed with manic depression like her mother.
Back in 2018, she got rid of panic and anxiety attacks and credited her husband, Sten, with whom she had been for 23 years, for helping her in this.
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Susannah posted a disturbing video of herself posting a doctor last yearCredit: Instagram
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She also spoke of the ‘frustration’ of her hearing loss. Credit: Getty
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