KATIE Price’s mum Amy was rushed to hospital last week after discovering a burst cyst.
The model opened up about the incident alongside sister Sophie and reassured fans she was OK now.
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Speaking on their podcast, The Katie Price Show, the 45-year-old told listeners: “Mum ended up at the hospital because she had a burst cyst from an ultrasound.”
Sophie continued: “I had to take mum to A&E. the hospital were really good actually, we went to Medway hospital.
“Took mum up A&E because she had a burst cyst I think it was but she is all fine.”
She explained: “She had an ultra-sound the other week and they burst it basically by accident. So we spent about six hours at A&E.”
In 2017 Amy was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis [IPF], a terminal lung disease with a life expectancy of three to five years.
Last year she underwent a lung transplant and has said she is “up and down”.
Amy previously confessed that, before being offered a transplant, she felt she was in her “final year”.
She said: “I gradually got worse and in 2022 I knew that was my last year because of the symptoms I had with the IPF.
“I could hardly breathe, walking was difficult, I was on oxygen more or less 24 hours [a day].
What is Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
According to the NHS, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a condition in which the lungs become scarred and breathing becomes increasingly difficult.
It’s not clear what causes it, but it usually affects people who are around 70 to 75 years old, and is rare in people under 50.
Several treatments can help reduce the rate at which IPF gets worse, but there’s currently no treatment that can stop or reverse the scarring of the lungs.
“When I was offered a transplant I just jumped at it.”
Amy later revealed things were a bit touch and go during her surgery – so much so she briefly died on the operating table.
She said: “I went into cardiac arrest and they had to pump me to bring me back and I didn’t know that.”
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