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Kerry Katona Says Mum Has Broken Back After Hospital Collapse

Doctors asked her to consider a do-not-resuscitate order during the emergency.

Overview

  • Katona detailed the crisis in an Instagram video, then wrote in her magazine column that her mother, Sue, remains in hospital after collapsing and being found to have a broken back.
  • She said Sue was unconscious for about 24 hours and, when she woke, seemed stuck in a loop and unlike herself, which she called deeply traumatic.
  • Katona said clinicians asked her to weigh a do-not-resuscitate decision, which is a directive to forgo CPR if a patient’s heart or breathing stops.
  • She reported that Sue is now doing well under observation as specialists work to find the cause of the blackout.
  • Katona added that she missed her own checks while at the hospital and is still recovering from a recent suspected-stroke scare that doctors later linked to stress.