Heart Attack in Barbados

Well…what a night! It was tough looking back on that, especially when my kids got all teared up watching daddy go through a ‘heart attack’ on the TV. I had to explain to them that it was months ago and daddy is OK but they still needed a cuddle!
It is the first time that I have seen the footage that the crew took when I was sick in Barbados.When I first got the pains I thought that they would pass but it just got worse and worse and the medic area was the safest place for me to be. What happened after that was a blur.

The crew went from a mild concern to a real panic as it became clear that they might actually lose me and once I was taken to hospital it was tools down, they all came out to the medical centre to sit in the waiting room to see if I was going to be OK. Six hours of tests and observation came up empty but we think it was a reaction to the fresh fruit and nuts I was eating before lunch.

I was on my way to the local hospital in Barbados but Myles Carney (Milo) our Series Coordinator explained to the medical staff at The Kensington Oval that ‘Granada’ and ‘Seed’ our production companies had full insurance, that meant I went to the private medical centre on the west side of Barbados – he part where Oprah or Bill Gates would go to get fixed if they were sick in Barbados if you know what I mean.

I rang my dad and told him what happened but I couldn’t ring my wife or mum, I don’t know why, I just couldn’t. It was only just before an article in Sydney’s The Sun Herald came out a week or so later about my health problems that I had to step up and tell them, I didn’t want them reading all about it in the paper.

As you saw, I spent a couple of days in bed listening to the cricket and I also watched the entire “Underbelly” series through my boss Matty Weiss’s iPod. Still to this day I do not know exactly what was wrong with me. I have had all the tests known to medical science but still no 100% diagnostics. I carry a few extra kilos and I am on a plan to get myself back to around 100kg – two stone to go. This will help me in all facets of my life and should make me fitter for our next adventure – I hope you watch next week as the Calypso spirit comes to play as we hit the limited over’s cricket!!!