Flog It! star Michael Baggott left fans worried after sharing a series of videos from his hospital bed on Saturday,
The former BBC One antiques specialist told his social media followers that he has been bed bound at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham for five weeks after suffering a stroke.
In a worrying series of clips posed to his X account, he claimed he had hardly been given any water and was ‘dying of thirst’.
Filming himself, he told fans: ‘It’s been a week now and I’ve been able to take fluids for two days. I was left without any water at all and have become badly dehydrated.
‘For the last three days, I’ve been given a litre of water, which has been insufficient to stop me being dehydrated.
‘The gaps between being given water have been 15 hours, 17 hours with no water, 12 hours with no water and currently 15 hours with no water intravenous.’
Flog It! star Michael Baggott left fans worried after sharing a series of videos from his hospital bed on Saturday
The BBC One antiques specialist told his social media followers that he has been bed bound for five weeks after suffering a stroke (pictured on the Antiques Roadshow in 2006)
He added: ‘I’m dying of thirst in a British NHS hospital and no one seems prepared to do anything about it.’
‘I want to say the nursing staff, the junior doctors here, have been the saving grace. They all want to help but they can’t. The senior management and the senior doctors, who I never see, always refuse water, always refuse treatment.
‘One told me yesterday If I don’t buck up my ideas, in three weeks I’ll never be able to walk again. Of course the junior staff told me that was nonsense, but it’s symptomatic of the treatment in this place.
‘All the staff are busting their gut to help you, the management and the senior surgeons are not.’
He clarified in the comments that he’s into his ‘fifth bed bound week,’ before adding a new post on Sunday, saying that he feels ‘happier’ and ‘more hopeful’.
In the video, he said: ‘Hydration at last, Radio 3 blaring and slightly happier, slightly more hopeful. Thank you for everybody who either came or sent a message. Hopefully the way back starts now.’
MailOnline has contacted Good Hope Hospital for comment.
Fans were left concerned after watching the clips and took to the replies to share their advice and well wishes.
They wrote: ‘Hi Michael, sorry to hear you’re suffering. There will be a reason as to why you are being denied water by your medical team, try not to get too upset by this. Stay strong, we’re all routing for you.’
In a worrying series of clips posed to his X account, he claimed he had hardly been given any water and was ‘dying of thirst’
Fans were left concerned after watching the clips and took to the replies to share their advice and well wishes
‘Gosh, it’s unbelievable that it could get this bad! Wishing you a very speedy recovery, Michael.’
‘I hope you feel much better very soon, so sorry to hear you have been so poorly.’
‘Sending our love and best wishes Michael, keep your spirits up and keep on believing.’
‘Michael I hope you start feeling better soon, don’t give up x.’
‘Michael, I am truly shocked by this; and deeply saddened. As with everyone here, I can only send you my sincerest hopes for your full recovery. Be strong, lad; be strong.’
‘We are thinking of you and wishing you all the best Michael. Hopefully things get better very soon.’
Michael is one of BBC One’s Flog It’s most recognisable faces, with his expert categories being antique silver, smallwork, boxes, early spoons, provincial and continental silver.
Flog It! has been a daytime television staple since it first hit screens back in 2002 and sees members of the public have their treasured possessions valued by a team of experts.
However, it was axed in 2018 to make room for six new commissions to ‘modernise’ the daytime schedule.
