Lisa Wilkinson reveals holiday horror: “My arm nearly had to be amputated”
TV host Lisa Wilkinson has revealed that her arm nearly had to be amputated after an injury she suffered earlier this year in Italy.
The 57-year-old journalist shared the frightening news during an event yesterday for Business Chicks at the Westin Hotel in Sydney.
Wilkinson was being interview by her Channel 10 colleague Natarsha Balling and revealed that Italian doctors had mistreated her broken wrist after she slipped on the bathroom floor, reported the Daily Telegraph.
“The doctors were very sweet but not very talented and they put a cast on that cut off my circulation for four or five days,” she said.
After returning home from the trip, Wilkinson visited her local doctors who informed her that she was within 24 hours of having her arm amputated.
She recalled how she was given a full arm cast despite only breaking bones in her wrist and due to the intense pain, she was in tears every day.
“When they put the cast on I was so out of it because they aren’t big believers in painkillers in Italy, I’ve now discovered. So they manipulated my bones back into position without any pain relief,” Wilkinson said.