The £40 set of bed sheets had been gifted to Lynch to keep him warm at his barn property in Castle Gresley in November.
He said the next morning when his friend clocked his newly acquired blue hue, he implored him to dash straight to the A&E department at Queen’s Hospital in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
“Everyone in the reception of A&E was staring at me like they’d seen a ghost,” he said.
“They whisked me through, put me straight on oxygen, asking me all these questions. I had about 10 doctors all around me at one point.
“They went to take my blood and as soon as she wiped my arm, the wipe went blue. Then it clicked. I said, ‘oh my god, I’m so sorry’.
“They were absolutely fantastic but I was mortified.”