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The dad-of-two is now in recovery mode following the drama that followed as the chef was in the middle of cooking a meal for his family\n<\/p>\n
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Donal Skehan<\/p>\n
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Donal’s update<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 star Donal Skehan has revealed that he is on the mend after he was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery and is \u201cfeeling much better today\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe meds (are) working a treat,\u201d he posted in an update on his Instagram Stories. \u201cHad the firsst post up shower\u2026 always helps you come back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dad-of-two is now in recovery mode following the drama that followed as the chef was in the middle of cooking a meal for his family.<\/p>\n
Donal first let fans know he was poorly when he snapped himself hooked up to all manners of medical devices at the hospital.<\/p>\n
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Donal Skehan<\/p>\n
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He explained how he had suddenly became unwell and was rushed to A&E following a chaotic Sunday and Monday following a \u201cdelightful start to the week\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old later thanked the staff and \u201cabsolute heroes\u201d of the Mater Hospital for their help and care after he spent a few hours in the city centre hospital.<\/p>\n
Donal later revealed to his followers how doctors had diagnosed him with appendicitis.<\/p>\n
Taking to Instagram, he explained how he ended up staying in the hospital overnight: “Well I\u2019ve now learned all I need to know about the appendix and appendicitis. The last 24 hours have been nonstop,\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n
“Had the [operation] last night to have it removed \u2013 Massive thanks to the amazing team at [the Mater Hospital] \u2013 the brilliant doctors, surgeons, nurses [and] porters.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolute heroes, so amazing with all the patients and different cases. So much respect for what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cCooked Sunday family lunch for 10 and noticed a pain which got worse and worse!<\/p>\n
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Donal’s update<\/p>\n
“Thankful to have caught it early. I hope it wasn\u2019t the sticky toffee pud! On the mend \u2013 thanks for the lovely messages.\u201d<\/p>\n
The doting dad also shared some of the adorable handwritten cards from his sons Noah, seven, and Oliver, five, that wished him to get well soon.<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s card read: \u201cDear Pappa, hope you feel better soon. Love Noah.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was all worth it in the end when the chef got to dish out a five-star review of the food he received in the hospital, though he had been waiting a long time before he got to enjoy a proper meal.<\/p>\n
“Having not eaten since Sunday night, this is right up there as one of the best breakfasts ever!\u201d, he declared alongside a photo of his meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RELIEF\u00a0|\u00a0 The dad-of-two is now in recovery mode following the drama that followed as the chef was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-152375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}