Andrea McClean has shared a heartfelt Valentine’s Day tribute to supportive husband Nick Feeney just days after revealing her secret battle with sepsis and pneumonia.
The former Loose Women presenter, 55, took to Instagram with a candid snap of the pair in bed alongside dog Teddy.
Andrea flashed a smile as she continued to recuperate after collapsing and being rushed to hospital at the end of last year.
Seemingly unaware he was being photographed, Nick, who wed the broadcaster in 2017, gazed at his phone while she gushed: ‘Real time Valentine’s Day with my favourite person and my bestest good friend…’
Before adding: ‘I love you to the moon and back. x’ Later taking to her Stories she shared a quote which read: ‘Count the ways you are loved today..all of the ways. It’s a lot, you are a lot, and you won’t find that love in the hearts and flowers but you’ll find it in your text messages, or your photo albums’.
Andrea McClean has shared a heartfelt Valentine’s Day tribute to supportive husband Nick Feeney just days after revealing her secret battle with sepsis and pneumonia
‘You’ll find it in the people who look to you for laughter, for the right words, for a safe place in a storm. The animals who wait for your footsteps to return.
‘And if you can count yourself within that list, even just a little, then you’re really winning at this game of life, my friends. Happy Valentine’s Day. Count The Love’.
Andrea, who quit Loose Women in 2020, took to Instagram on Sunday to share that she suffered a terrifying health ordeal at the end of last year.
‘I didn’t see THAT coming…,’ she wrote as she attached a stock picture of an unwell dog. ‘How I discovered riding in an ambulance isn’t as much fun as you’d think.’
Andrea explained that in December she came down with the flu, but things got progressively worse.
‘I collapsed in the bathroom, and like the adverts you see on telly with the elderly, I lay there for an hour before my husband found me,’ she said.
‘We rang the GP who told us to call 999 immediately. The ambulance team were amazing. My blood pressure was so low I couldn’t stand, and I was in a lot of pain.’
She added: ‘Then my X-ray and CT scans came back. I had severe pneumonia, Acute Kidney Injury and sepsis.
Andrea, who quit Loose Women in 2020, took to Instagram on Sunday to share that she suffered a terrifying health ordeal at the end of last year (pictured with Nick in November)
Later taking to her Stories she shared a quote which read: ‘ Count the ways you are loved today..all of the ways. It’s a lot, you are a lot’
‘Things happened quickly; drips, super-strong antibiotics via IV and orally, and I was transferred to the Emergency Assessment Ward.
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Loose Women star is rushed to hospital and diagnosed with severe pneumonia and sepsis after collapsing at home
Andrea spent the next four days in hospital before she was allowed home to sleep – however she had to return every day for the next week to receive antibiotic drips.
Five weeks on from the ordeal, Andrea said her life is still not ‘back to normal’ as she expected it would be.
She also thanked her husband Nick who she said’s ‘life stopped’ during that time too as he drove her to the hospital everyday, waited for her at clinics four hours at a time and cooked everyone dinner, before putting her to bed.
But she is not feeling better just yet, as she added: ‘It’s now February, and I’m still not well enough to handle normal stuff like getting up and rushing out the door to do the jobs I’d been booked to do, because every part of that process would end with me falling down, or at the very least sitting on a tube station floor feeling very unwell and embarrassed at the stares.
Andrea explained that in December she came down with the flu , but things got progressively worse
‘I collapsed in the bathroom, and like the adverts you see on telly with the elderly, I lay there for an hour before my husband found me,’ she said
‘I’m still having ‘funny turns’ while out for a walk, or attempting the mildest of exercise.’
It comes after Andrea was left ‘bedridden’ in 2023 after ‘three months of absolute exhaustion’ as she detailed her health woes.
She admitted it was ‘one step forward and three steps back’ for her health and was ‘awaiting blood tests.’
In a lengthy post shared to her Instagram, she explained that she had gone to support ex co-star Brenda Edwards at an event on the one year anniversary of the death of her son Jamal and fell ill shortly after.
SIX MAJOR SIGNS OF SEPSIS
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused when the body releases chemicals to fight an infection.
These chemicals damage the body’s own tissues and organs and can lead to shock, organ failure and death.
Organ failure and death are more likely if sepsis is not recognized early and treated immediately.
Sepsis infects an estimated 55,000 ns each year, killing between 5,000 and 9,000 making it more than four times deadlier than the road toll.
The symptoms can look like gastro or flu and can become deadly, rapidly.
The six major signs of something potentially deadly can be identified by the acronym ‘SEPSIS’:
- Slurred speech or confusion, lethargy, disorientation
- Extreme shivering or muscle pain, fever or low temperature
- Pressing a rash doesn’t make it fade
- Severe breathlessness, rapid breathing
- Inability to pass urine for several hours
- Skin that’s mottled or discoloured
Children may also show convulsions or fits, and a rash that doesn’t fade when you press it – and more than 40 per cent of cases occur in children under five.
Anyone who develops these symptoms should seek medical help urgently — and ask doctors: ‘Could this be sepsis?’
Sepsis is a leading cause of avoidable death killing about 10,000 ns each year
The early symptoms of sepsis can be easily confused with more mild conditions, making it difficult to diagnose.
A high temperature (fever), chills and shivering, a fast heartbeat and rapid breathing are also indicators.
A patient can rapidly deteriorate if sepsis is missed early on, so quick diagnosis and treatment is vital – yet this rarely happens.
In the early stages, sepsis can be mistaken for a chest infection, flu or upset stomach.
It is most common and dangerous in older adults, pregnant women, children younger than one, people with chronic conditions or those who have weakened immune systems.