Arthur Gourounlian reveals he ‘almost died' after feeling ‘neglected' in hospital during major health scare
ARTHUR Gourounlian has revealed he "almost died" after feeling "neglected" in hospital during a major health scare.
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Arthur Gourounlian has opened up on his health scare in 2020
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Arthur was rushed back to the hospital after being sent home two weeks prior
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Arthur said he was 'rushed' in his first hospital visit
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The 44-year-old told The Irish Sun: "It's just for me, I want to be a long-time parent, I want to be around for my daughters, to see them grow, to see having kids one day, getting married, I don't want my health to stop me.
"I don't want to be
The dad-of-two opened up on his "very dangerous" health scare back in 2020.
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Arthur said: "I nearly died, if I didn't go there [the hospital], I wouldn't be sitting, talking to you here.
"When I woke up one day, I remember my calf was swollen, and I went to the hospital, and they said, 'Oh, no, no, it's not a blood clot, it's just like a mosquito bite', and then I was like, 'Okay'.
"You trust your doctor... sometimes you have to question two, three times, I'm learning that."
Arthur's situation went from bad to worse after being sent home from the hospital.
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He explained: "So I took this tablet, nothing happened, left, and it was still swollen. Two weeks later, my calf was so, so big, and it was burning.
"It was like somebody had a lighter on my calf. I woke up, and Brian laughed, he was like, 'Oh, come on, you're so dramatic, you're fine', I was like, 'Trust me, I know my body, as a dancer, there's something wrong here'."
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Arthur rushed back to the same hospital and this time it was clear to the doctors that something was very wrong.
He said: "I will never forget the face of the the doctor, she came to me, said, 'Can you breathe?', and I went, 'Yeah, I'm fine, for the moment, I'm fine', she was like, 'Oh my God', they acted so fast.
"I'm not gonna name the hospital, because I don't want to shame them but I feel like I was neglected.
"She rushed me into the room, they started doing tests, I had blood clot."
'IT WAS GOING TO MY LUNG'
Arthur was told that if he waited a few more days, he "would never survived".
He added: "It was going to my lung, and to my heart and once a blood clot goes to your heart, you'll die, there's no saving, so you go heart attack - die.
"So she said, 'Thank God you came'. I had to have injections, lots of injections and I took the tablets for six months and I've been fine, because I'm active.
"All my life, I turned 40, I was so active, I was so fit and then suddenly, Covid happened, and we did nothing, so I was eating, and take-aways, and that heaviness, and no exercise, obviously, I probably had a problem, but it can happen to anybody, it's just a blood clot."
Speaking about feeling "neglected" on his initial visit, he added: "It was the first time, they didn't do the right test, it was too rushed.
"But I guess it was the momentum of COVID, and everything, they're just like, 'Okay, you just probably have a bite'."
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