Lottie Tomlinson undergoes emergency surgery after falling ill on flight
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Lottie Tomlinson has revealed her holiday started in a scary way as she was taken ill on a flight and needed to be rushed to hospital.
The 26-year-old influencer, whose brother is former One Direction star Louis Tomlinson, jetted off to Abu Dhabi this week, but things took a turn as she felt 'really bad stomach pains' on the plane.
'So I didn't expect to start my trip like this,' she admitted in a selfie video from her hospital bed, which she shared on her Instagram Story.
'But I'm just grateful that I'm recovering now. I fell quite ill on the way here on the plane with really bad stomach pains,' Lottie said, noting that once she landed, she started 'throwing up'.
'Long story short, I went to the doctor and they put me on a drip,' she revealed. 'But it wasn't helping the stomach pains. So they sent me to hospital, where I discovered that I had appendicitis.'
She added: 'So it needed surgery straight away. So last night I had surgery to remove my appendix, and it all went well.'
In the caption, she wrote: 'Thank you to all the lovely doctors and nurses here in Abu Dhabi.'
Lottie is on holiday with her fiancé Lewis Burton and their children Lucky, two, and Flossie, five months.
She shared photos of the family by her side, and wrote: 'Hopefully I can make a speedy recovery and enjoy our last few days here.'
As described by the NHS, appendicitis is 'swelling and infection in your appendix' which 'usually causes pain in the lower right side of your abdomen'.
Symptoms usually start with pain in the middle, near your belly button, with the pain increasing and moving to the lower right side 'after a few hours'.
Pain can feel worse when you 'move, cough or press on the area'.
Other symptoms include feeling or being sick, loss of appetite, high temperature, constipation or diarrhoea, urinating more than usual.
For older people, 'sudden confusion' is also a possible symptom.
Lottie later returned to Instagram with a more positive update alongside a photo of her and Lewis in a car holding hands. More Trending
'Out of hospital and on the way to hotel to rest,' she wrote. 'Thank you so much for all the kind messages x'
She later shared some photos of herself in a bikini and her family in the pool, revealing how happy she was to be back with her family for the rest of their trip.
'Back where I belong,' she said. 'You make everything better.'
'Let's try this again,' she quipped over a photo of the beach from her hotel balcony, and she wrote alongside a bikini mirror selfie: '1 appendix down but what better place to recover.'
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