"I couldn't put on my shoes before flying." It was small clues like that alerted Jean-Pierre Foucault and may have saved him. The flagship host of TF1 told in detail his double cardiac arrest occurred last month for Doctissimo, a site specializing in the field of health.
"It was when I got off the plane in Marignane (Marseille airport, editor's note), that I felt a strong chest tightness. I asked my wife for some water, but the pain has not passed, "begins the former presenter of Who wants to make millions?. The 75-year-old animator still takes the car to return home to Carry-Le-Rouet, for about twenty minutes.
It was when he arrived at his home that things became complicated. "I couldn't climb the few steps that separated me from the front door. I lay on the floor in the garden and we called for help. They then told me not to move, "details the star of the TV sets.
'Two small cardiac arrests'
Transferred to the North Hospital in emergency, surgeons unclog a stent, tiny tubes that keep the arteries open, to save his life. "The healthcare team told me afterwards that I had suffered two small cardiac arrests: the first in my garden, the other in the emergency room," says Jean-Pierre Foucault.
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But it is above all his rapid management, and the knowledge of the symptoms of the facilitator that made it possible to intervene quickly. "It was the severe chest pain that immediately made me think of cardiac arrest. The other detail that alerted me was that I could no longer put on my shoes before flying: my feet were swollen, "says the presenter of Miss France, for the site specialized in health.
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After 5-6 days of rest at the North Hospital, Jean-Pierre Foucault spent three weeks in rehabilitation (sport, walking...) at the Léon Bérard Hospital, in Hyères, before being now fully on his feet, only one month after the accident: "I am resting... And I work a minute and a half a day. That's my secret! »