00:00 this stuff, you know, oxygen, shut up, and the guy there, the doctor said, "I think you're
00:04 going to be in hospital for a little while." And I said, "I can't, I've got to do a show
00:07 in two days." And he said, "I don't think you're going to do that." And I had sepsis,
00:14 and I had poison blood, and it went into the heart. And I think probably if they hadn't
00:20 caught it soon, I wouldn't be here. I knew there was something, I didn't realise that
00:25 it was so serious, but I woke up in hospital one day, and my whole family were around my
00:31 bed, and I thought, "God, they're not going to get my money. I'm going to get back."
00:40 I mean, that's one of the things, isn't it, about sepsis, is that it is very hard to spot.
00:46 Yes, it is.
00:47 Could you recognise you're feeling a little bit under the weather, maybe, and perhaps
00:51 blamed it on a bug, and then it just got worse and worse?
00:53 No, you know, I was feeling okay, not too bad. I was coming off the stage, because we're
00:58 doing a Sound of the Sixties tour, and I came off the stage at Milton Keynes, and I wasn't
01:02 feeling too well. But about a couple of days later, I just went home, collapsed on the
01:08 floor, couldn't get up, and rushed into hospital. And I'd never heard of sepsis before, but
01:15 I've talked to the experts, and anybody can get it. I interviewed somebody who was stung
01:20 three times, and he ended up in hospital with this thing, and he nearly died. And I said
01:26 to the expert, because I did a little film on it recently, and I said, "Is there anything
01:30 we could do which would stop this?" And he said, "No." And he said, "It is very difficult
01:35 to spot once you've got it."
01:36 Yeah, until something dramatic happens.
01:37 It's so serious.
01:38 So, it was, fortunately, you just got fantastic care, and you got to hospital at the right
01:42 time.
01:43 Yeah, but 50,000 people die of this in this country every year.
01:46 Yeah.
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