Louise Thompson breaks silence from hospital and reveals terrible ordeal

has broken her silence after being - and said she feels 'like a zombie'.

The 34-year-old star needed emergency surgery after suffering agonising pain in her abdomen. Revealing the sad news on their He Said, She Said podcast, her fiancé Ryan Libbey confessed: "I don’t know how much more she can take."

It comes after the mum-of-one has been hospitalised numerous times since the traumatic birth of her son Leo in 2021. The reality star and author had to undergo an emergency caesarean, but ended up losing three-and-a-half litres of blood when doctors failed to stop a haemorrhage for over three hours.

She was later told her womb had torn, which had caused the bleeding. Her ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease, worsened after this and she now lives with a stoma bag.

Taking to Instagram, Louise said she hopes to be discharged from hospital soon after her latest health woes. She said: "It's World Kindness day. The feels like it's been a bit unkind to me again. But today is a new day. And that hopefully means home."

Telling fans what happened, Louise continued: "I really hate to say it but I’ve been back in hospital feeling very poorly (I feel like the word ‘poorly’ warrants the label of an Onomatopoeia - everything about it resembles elderly, frail illnessy stuff).

"As I say it I feel like a grandma blowing out bubbles for words. It looks and sounds sick. Like I did. Even though I’m also confusingly only 34 and incredibly strong. Mentally and physically STRONG. If I do say so myself.

"I’m almost embarrassed at this point. BUT there is light. Despite The Surgery, The Butt drain, The Catheter, The Stoma, The Robinsons drains, Dreaded Pigtail drain, Copious cannulas. Blood tests galore. My poor poor bod. I’ve felt like a bit of a zombie."

She went on to say: "There have been beacons of kindness EVERYWHERE. It’s been needed because oh goodness me it’s been quite scary seeing my body laden with so many foreign objects. I’m amazed I even managed to move with all that in at one point. I literally had a tail dangling out of me. Stitched in. In fact I felt like an octopus with multiple legs or tubes (turns out a cannula with different entry points is called an octopus too). Great minds. Or a great subconscious mind and memory of mine.

"Ahhh the joy of heavy heavy opioids for getting me through the worst of it. Thank goodness for poppies. Thank goodness for science. Thank goodness for modern medicine."

But despite her health setback, Louise said her "faith in humanity is actually at an all time high".

She explained: "Back to the important thing: kindness. There have been many many people who have been incredibly kind who have got me through. Like BEYOND KIND. Angel level of kind. The kind of people you meet and think gosh I wish I was as kind as you because you are next level kind, going out of your way to help others. You really are a superstar kind of god given gift.

"It's really remarkable that there are people out there that are THIS cool. Actually I don’t mean cool. I mean warm, really really warm. Because warm > cool. The world is a better place because of you #worldkindnessday."

Fans were quick to send their love and strength, but Louise's partner Ryan said the hospital dash was "completely unexpected". He recalled how she was rushed to A&E at 3.30am nine days ago before suffering from septic shock.

He said: "Sadly Louise is not here this week. She had to go back into hospital almost two weeks ago for another emergency operation in the same tummy area that she's been recovering from since earlier this year with her stoma surgery."

Revealing he was struggling to cope, Ryan continued: "It's completely broken me. Her recovery has been up and down. Post-surgery she was in septic shock, which shows the severity of how bad things got. I can't believe we're back in this situation. My heart beat is skipping around all over the place, which is an indication of how heavy and raw it all feels. It's very unexpected and a difficult pill to swallow."

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