BBC presenter Jennie Gow is ill [edited]

I hope this is the right thread to post this. From Jennie Gow's twitter:

 

Hi everyone, been quiet the last few eeks, this i sbecause I suffered a serious stroke two weeks ago. My husband is helping me type this, as I'm finding it hard to write and my speech is most affected. 

 

I;m desperate to make a full recovery and return to work soon, but it might take some time. Thank you to the medical teams at Frimley and St George's and my family and friends who've got me through the last fortnight X

 

https://twitter.com/...erp|twgr^author

 

I very much hope she's feeling better soon.

Oh my goodness, that's terrible news. Best wishes for Jennie's recovery.

Bloody hell! Mid-40's.

Fingers crossed she makes a full recovery. Shocking.

Edited by ConsiderAndGo, 13 January 2023 - 14:29.

I've just been reading that BBC F1 journalist Jennie Gow recently suffered a serious stroke:

https://www.mirror.c...ke-bbc-28947054

She's only 45 which seems young to be suffering from something like that.

Young, but not unheard of.  

All the best to her, and I hope things improve for her in short a time as possible.

Must have been bad she claimed she needed her husbands help to type the announcement,

Andrew Marr has made a pretty good recovery from his stroke so here's hoping she recovers as much as possible.

What rotten news, here’s to a good recovery.

Awful, very sorry to hear and hope she makes a full recovery.

Godspeed Jennie!

Ah schitt.

I love her on the BBC radio broadcast.

I have a feeling she WILL get back at it.

Here's to ya girl !!

Love,

Jp

I can only echo everyone else's thoughts here. Really sad news, and I hope for a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Jennie 

Wishing her all the best and a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Jennie, always love to hear your pov's & recollections.

Jennie is a cool lady. Met her in a hospitality tent at COTA a couple of years ago. All positive thoughts for her steady recovery.

That's terrible news, hope she gets well soon!

 that's terrible news. Best wishes for Jennie

Very sad to hear this, I wish her all the best.

I hope this is the right thread to post this. From Jennie Gow's twitter:

 

 

I very much hope she's feeling better soon.

Awful news.

This is awful news. Obviously not unheard of but tremendously bad luck for someone of her age to suffer a stroke. Hoping she makes a full recovery.

Such terrible news. Wishing her all the best.

@JennieGow

We just wanted to thank everyone for their kind messages of support, positivity and encouragement, they really do mean a lot to us. Thank you to all of you have also shared their own stories around stroke recovery and support. #stroke

I'm so sorry to hear of this for Jenny.  I had a stroke on September 23, 2022 at 6:30 PM.  I was paralyzed on my left side.  Through a crazy amount of hard work and therapy, I'm ok now.  I only have a couple of residual effect which should diminish over time.  My thoughts go out to Jenny and her family.  Best of success in her recovery.  The hard work is ahead of her.  I know she will do well.

I'm so sorry to hear of this for Jenny. I had a stroke on September 23, 2022 at 6:30 PM. I was paralyzed on my left side. Through a crazy amount of hard work and therapy, I'm ok now. I only have a couple of residual effect which should diminish over time. My thoughts go out to Jenny and her family. Best of success in her recovery. The hard work is ahead of her. I know she will do well.

Wow, MK you are very fortunate!  Glad that you are still with us!  Medical issues do put your life into perspective, or at least that's what happened to me.

Get well soon Jennie

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!  I enjoin all of you to get into a physicians office ASAP and get a full work-up.  The week before the stroke I biked 37 miles per day and worked on a friends farm baling hay and putting it on flat beds.  I did 200 myself and I worked out 4-6 days per week.  The ER staff was shocked to see how healthy I was. All it took was a touch of hypertension, a BP spike from 60-70 hr work weeks and, boom, here comes the ambulance.  

Get yourselves checked out guys and gals.  Do it for yourself, first and everyone else second.

Cheers-mk

@JennieGow

An update…

Listened to the BBC's Chequered Flag season preview podcast today. Jennie obviously was not hosting, but Jack did play an audio clip from her where she expresses her desire to be back trackside later this season, sounds like her speech was affected pretty dramatically by the stroke but she's making good progress, was nice to hear her again after this news. 

I found this BBC article about her recovery https://www.bbc.co.u...pshire-65682328

And then I went to the iPlayer and found this bit with her talking about it (from about 1:30 for 5 minutes - if you can view the iPlayer where you are): https://www.bbc.co.u...e-show-22052023

Jennie suffered a very acute stroke last year which left her unable to communicate and unable to walk. She's getting much better and she's shared this video for stroke a awareness month.

If you could allow this for a little while please mods. despite its very tenuous link to F1, it's a nice story.

Grab a box of tissues of you want to watch:https://twitter.com/...WWM59Gb5KA&s=19

Geoblocked on Twitter but the VPN resolves this. Remarkable recovery in five months, So pleased to see this level of progress.   She was so incredibly enthusiastic last year at TT, Jennie, Jenny Tinmouth and Amy Williams made a great trio.

Edited by ConsiderAndGo, 07 July 2023 - 09:57.

https://www.bbc.co.u...rammes/p0fzh976

So, so delighted for her  I hope to hear her again soon in Extreme E: the Scotland round wasn't the same without her.

She’s back this weekend with the BBC. Great, and very emotional interview with Hamilton. Very nice news.

Great to hear this!

Can the topic title be changed to "...is getting better"? 

https://www.bbc.co.u...rammes/p0fzh976
 
So, so delighted for her  I hope to hear her again soon in Extreme E: the Scotland round wasn't the same without her.

A BBC article where she talks about her recovery - https://www.bbc.co.u...kshire-68545808

She's back as a regular host of the BBC's F1 podcast and you can hear her speech improving each episode, she's back to sounding like her old self with maybe a tiny hiccup here or there. Really happy she's been able to recover, cannot imagine how scary it must have been for both her and her husband who found her after having the stroke.