This Morning’s Dr Zoe Williams has revealed her terrifying health scare that left her writing an emergency will from her hospital bed.
The TV doctor, 44, shared the news in an Instagram post on Wednesday as she revealed she had been suffering a ‘year of health blips’.
She explained: ‘I got signed off by my Cardiologist today… I’m ok. But I wasn’t certain that I would be for a while!
‘It’s been a year of health blips. The most worrying being my heart ❤️ But I’m ok.
‘Writing an emergency will from your hospital bed, just in case, is not the one though. But I’m ok.’
This Morning’s Dr Zoe Williams has revealed her terrifying health scare that left her writing an emergency will from her hospital bed
Dr Zoe is a regular on This Morning (L-R Zoe, Alice Beer, Sharon Marshall, Dr Ranj, Martin Lewis, Dr Chris Steele, Steve Wilson and Martin Lewis)
She continued: ‘It’s interesting how we can be thankful for these experiences. They can make us see clearly. What matters. What doesn’t.
‘And just how easy it is to take our health for granted xxx.’
A regular face on the ITV daytime show, Zoe paved her media career on her passion for fitness and health after graduating medical school in 2007.
Originally from Burnley, Lancashire, she had her first experience on TV with the 2009 reboot of Sky 1’s Gladiators.
She is now a GP based in London with regular appearances on the ITV daytime show.
Dr Williams has also presented BBC shows including Trust Me I am a Doctor and a Horizon episode about the contraceptive pill.
The media medic has also had several non-clinical GP roles, including acting as Public Health England’s lead clinical champion for their physical activity postgraduate education programme and RCGP clinical priority of physical activity and lifestyle.
In addition, she has also been the Southwark CCG clinical lead for lifestyle medicine and social prescribing and a director and founding member of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
The TV doctor, 44, shared the news in an Instagram post on Wednesday as she revealed she had been suffering a ‘year of health blips’
She explained: ‘I got signed off by my Cardiologist today… I’m ok. But I wasn’t certain that I would be for a while!’
She added: ‘It’s been a year of health blips. The most worrying being my heart ❤️ But I’m ok. ‘Writing an emergency will from your hospital bed, just in case, is not the one though’
She continued: ‘It’s interesting how we can be thankful for these experiences. They can make us see clearly. What matters. What doesn’t’
She shared the news with her Instagram followers in a lengthy post and was immediately flooded with messages of support from the likes of Alexandra Burke and Alesha Dixon
She also helps young people from challenging backgrounds by using activity programmes to improve their health and wellbeing, through her not-for-profit organisation Fit4LifeCIC, which was founded in 2017.
Dr Zoe suffered another health scare in September last year.
She revealed she had gone into hospital to receive spinal steroid injections and took to Instagram to share the details with her followers.
The star snapped a picture of herself in her gown in the morning as she wrote ‘Just waiting to go into theatre for my spine injections. Wish me luck’.
Talking to her followers whilst she chilled out on the sofa with her son Lisbon, three, she shared: ‘Just to say a huge thanks for your well wishes, your prayers and your love. It’s been felt warmly and is very much appreciated.
‘I am back home with my boy…We’re eating biscuits and oranges and watching Toy Story.’
The star went on to answer her fans questions explaining she was sedated throughout the procedure so didn’t feel or remember anything, admitting she was ‘just a bit drowsy afterward.’
She also said ‘The pain so far is better than it was this morning but the thing is with these injections is that they don’t work for everybody and things can get worse before they get better.’
Along with the help of her son she then reassured her fans that if anyone is booked in for a steroid injection, ‘do not fear’.
Dr Zoe then promised to get into more detail about steroid injections in a future post, acknowledging that her having a good experience isn’t always the total picture.
Dr Zoe suffered another health scare in September last year. She revealed she had gone into hospital to receive spinal steroid injections and took to Instagram to share the details
