Max George praises quick-thinking mum for ‘saving his life’ ahead of major heart surgery
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Max George has spoken about his terrifying health ordeal in his first interview post-heart surgery. The Wanted singer, 36, was rushed to A&E last month and later had a life-saving pacemaker fitted. Thankfully, he was discharged from hospital in Manchester before Christmas and is now at home, recuperating with his family by his side.
But it certainly hasn’t been an easy road, as Max now reveals that it’s thanks to his mum’s quick thinking that he’s even alive at all. Speaking to The Sun, Max recalled waking up with blue hands on December 11 while staying at his mum Babs’ house, having just returned from a tour in America.
‘I hadn’t been feeling myself for a few days; I started feeling a bit rough,’ he said, adding that he ‘couldn’t put [his] finger on’ why he felt so ‘lethargic’. Initially, Max ‘didn’t think it was anything serious.’. ‘Luckily I’d gone around to my mum’s to stay, and I woke up, and I remember looking at my hands, and they were blue, and my arms were a grey colour, and I was freezing cold. I struggled to even sit up in bed.’.
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Max managed to get himself downstairs to check his blood pressure using a monitor kept by his healthcare worker mother, 63. When he noticed his blood pressure was ‘pretty low’, as was his pulse, he clocked that ‘something wasn’t right’. ‘As I did that, my mum came through the door, and she gasped,’ he said.
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