Love Island 2018's Laura Crane has opened up for the first time about her terrifying sepsis ordeal. The 23-year-old, who split from her villa boyfriend Jack Fowler two months after the show ended, appeared on Lorraine earlier today to reveal what caused the infection, which can quite often be deadly.
"I didn’t realise how ill I was," she admitted. "I had this crazy high temperature and my heart literally felt like it was coming out through my shirt. My mum was luckily coming to London to visit me - because she thought I wasn’t really replying to her texts - and if she hadn’t have come, I wouldn’t have gone to hospital that day."
She continued, "I couldn’t understand how my own body had created it, I thought there must be something else. I’ve not had a definite answer about why I got this, because I had what I thought felt like bad period pains, I felt delirious the next day and had no concept of time. But the NHS were incredible, they instantly knew something was up."
Laura revealed that the most worrying moment throughout the whole ordeal was actually when she was first admitted to hospital, as the doctors tried to work out where the infection was.
"I actually started to get worse and my temperature would go really high and then really low, and my heart rate couldn’t really stabilise. That’s when it got really scary when I thought I’m completely out of control of my body."
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Thankfully, doctors were able to locate the infection, and Laura explained, "In the end it was actually down to a cyst on my ovary and one of them became infected and became an abscess and they had to drain it. It was an ordeal!"
The surfer also revealed that even though they're not together anymore, her ex, Jack, had been hugely supportive throughout the situation, and she praised him for being "amazing," adding, "We stayed really good friends."
For more information on sepsis, head to the NHS website.
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