BBC's Martin Roberts, who hosts Homes Under the Hammer, has tearfully made an announcement on his career following emergency heart surgery. He revealed the "pretty amazing news" to his 20,000 followers on Twitter.
Mr Roberts was taken to hospital in April where it was found he had masses of fluid surrounding his heart. The respected TV presenter says he was told he had hours to live and had to undergo emergency surgery.
He spent a week in hospital and has now shared an update on his recovery according to BirminghamLive. In a video posted on social media Mr Roberts said: "So I've got some news and it’s actually pretty amazing news. Today is a very special day, it’s quite an emotional one to be honest because I've spoken to the doctors and they’ve said as long as I take it easy I'm ok to start work.
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"So I am back today filming Homes Under The Hammer." He continued: "I'm in the valleys of Wales, I never thought I’d be so happy."
In the social media post Mr Roberts explained exactly what had happened. He says his heart had been 'strangled'.
He added: "There’s a sack around your heart and it was filling with fluid, it’s called a pericardial effusion and that in turn is something called a tapenade, which basically means this sack is squeezing the heart it sits around, so the heart isn’t able to expand, and therefore isn’t able to pump, so it means all of your organs start failing.
"By the time they got to me, my kidneys were at 30% my liver was at 30%, my lungs weren’t getting the oxygen and at any point, I could have had a heart attack. The heart would have been strangled by itself.”
