A contributor on This Morning has revealed that she’s had major surgery after a tube in her brain broke, terrifyingly meaning that her skull was ‘filling up with water’
Life coach Michelle Elman, an expert who is called upon regularly for her expertise on ITV’s This Morning, revealed her shocking health battles over the ‘complex’ medical issue on social media.
Explaining that she needed surgery last November, she revealed she had a new cyst on her brain and a magnet that needs replacing.
Michelle was born with the condition hydrocephalus, which creates an excess of cerebrospinal fluid, and doctors later found out that she had also been born with a brain tumour. The magnet aids control of the flow of the fluid.
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The TV star explained on Instagram that sadly she was back in hospital after undergoing ‘complex’ surgery, as she shared snaps of herself in bed, with her head covered in bandages.
Michelle revealed she had had to have the ‘high risk’ operation to fix a tube that had been put inside her skull to control fluid.
Charting her latest health battles, she wrote alongside the post: “They discovered the tube in my brain was broken – and that wasn’t even the part they were fixing.
“Now I’m just sat here wondering how I wrote a whole f**king book with my brain filling with water for years?!?! I’ve been on live TV and radio multiple times?! Absolute madness. Might explain some of my other questionable life choices!”
She added: ‘If one more person keeps telling me I’m a “complex case”, “extremely unique” or “unheard of”, my brain might actually explode! ‘I’m only accepting the terms “medical miracle” from now on.’
Explaining in more detail the surgery she had, Michelle continued, ‘The actual surgery they were doing was actually a choice between a higher risk or lower risk.
“There was a chance the high risk would just result in me being opened for nothing and having a new scar for s**ts and gigs. I took the higher risk and it paid off. Who needs the high from gambling when you can play roulette with your life?!”
Last week, the TV contributor asked fans from her bed to help her ‘pretend she’s not in hospital’ as she continues to ‘make content’ for them online.
She added at the time, “This is three months of symptoms now, I’ve been in and out of hospital for over a month, and I am bored – and January is one of the best months of TV stuff, and obviously a lot of my content is TV.
“Since I’m lying in a hospital bed, all alone and watching all these shows anyway, I want to be making the content I want to be making.
“After the experience I’ve had the last three months, especially because it was brain surgeries and and affecting how my brain functioned, if I have a brain, I want to be able to use it.
“My body might not be the sharpest right now, but my brain still works, and that has taken over a month to get to that point.
“I’m not allowed to lift up my head because I have a tube draining my brain right now, and because I have tubes coming out of my body, it’s also quite hard to get dressed. We’ll do our best to conserve our modesty, but other than that, my brain is working so I’m going to use it.
“This is me at my worst, and that’s OK, because what I have to say is more important and we’re going to just keep making content and ignore the fact I’m in a hospital bed.
Back in November, Michelle documented the appointments she was having with doctors, telling followers she was due for yet another surgery, after undergoing an MRI scan.
Obviously struggling, she wrote on Instagram, “My life has been high highs and low lows atm and this morning was a miserable one with lots of bad news that I’m not prepared to deal with.”
She later penned, “Yesterday I found out I need another brain surgery. I have a cyst in my brain again and also the magnet in my brain needs replacing.
“It’s not urgent but it is needed so now I have to figure out when to schedule this so it disrupts my life as little as possible.
“Inevitably I will have to pause my life and go deal with this, likelihood it will be next year, but until then it’s business as usual.”
Her health battles have been long fought – as the presenter has had 15 surgeries until the age of 20, including operations to fix an obstructed bowel and punctured intestine.
Back in 2018, she appeared on Loose Women – opening up dramatically on how it felt to ‘die’ after she flat-lined following brain surgery, aged 11.
She told the Loose presenters she recalled ‘floating’ above her bed, as she attempted to reassure people that it wasn’t as scary as they might think.
She revealed, “What’s really nice to know is it’s a really calm sensation when you die, and that’s what I’d like to tell people because it gives you a bit solace that even in the last moments it’s really peaceful and really calm.
“In my head it was five minutes but apparently it was a few seconds. I remember everything that happened but apparently my eyes were closed.I didn’t talk about it for years but it makes me sound a bit crazy.”
Source: Mirror
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