A Loose Women panellist’s husband has spoken out about the awful moment he was rushed to hospital after a stroke. The ITV star Gloria Hunniford’s second husband, Stephen Wray, 78, was left partially blind after having a stroke.
"I woke up in the morning and there was blood in the eye and that was it. I can see a little but not that good,” Stephen said, speaking to the Mirror.
"It is from the heart to the eye, and then from the eye to the brain, so it is damaged.
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"It is the first time I have had something like this with the eye. I had to go to hospital – then Northfield [Hospital, West London] and then neurology but thankfully it was not a long wait at A&E. I just went straight through. I am coping OK with it all. It’s fine but just disorientating.”
As reported by Birmingham Live, the incident comes after 83-year-old Gloria suffered a medical emergency herself. At the time, the Loose Women Star shared that she was “very worried.”
She had a horrific fall where she broke her eye socket and had to be taken to hospital. "Thankfully the ambulance was able to bring the skin over, otherwise I would've lost a lot of skin," Gloria explained. Gloria described how she tripped on the rug at her son's house onto "a hard wooden floor."
"I cracked the bone under my eye... there's a bone around the eye that holds the socket in place," she explained. "So, as long as the muscle holds it in place I should be ok."
Gloria admitted: "I thought 'if " can get a Phantom of the Opera mask to cover [her face] that would be great'. I've not been able to go down the mall because I don't have anyone to do my makeup." Gloria admitted she "didn't know where I was" in hospital and shared: "I was very worried about a clot forming in my head."
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