Natalie Barr has revealed that she was instructed she might by no means sit up or stroll once more by medical doctors throughout a well being scare.
The Sunrise host, 55, spoke for the primary time a couple of situation she suffered at age 15 that left her bedbound in hospital for 2 months.
“I got really sick with a disease in my spine called osteomyelitis. The bug had eaten two of my vertebrae and they were crumbling,” she revealed to Sunday Life.
“I’d had back pain and saw a physio who wrote to my doctor… but that night I ended up in hospital with an orthopaedic surgeon telling me: ‘Lie down, or you’ll never sit up again’.”
Ms Barr was then flown to Perth hospital for a prognosis, with medical doctors telling her she might by no means stroll once more.
She was then despatched dwelling to be “pumped with high-dose antibiotics” and ordered to lie on her again for months.
Describing the ordeal as “traumatic”, Ms Barr was in a position to make a full restoration.
The veteran journalist spent 18-years because the newsreader for Sunrise earlier than taking up from Samantha Armytage as host in 2021.
She started her profession in journalism after organising a placement at native TV station GWN7 throughout her college holidays, making up for the actual fact she missed out on work expertise on account of her sickness.
Source: www.news.com.au
