Louise Thompson forced to spend Christmas Eve in hospital amid ongoing health battle as she thanks the NHS

Louise Thompson was forced to spend her Christmas Eve in hospital amid her ongoing health battle and thanked the NHS for their help.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, nearly died when she welcomed Leo-Hunter in 2021 after a emergency caesarean in which she lost ’12 and a half litres of blood’.

She went on to suffer with PTSD and post-natal anxiety due to her near-death experience and has since been diagnosed with Lupus, Asherman’s syndrome, suffered a second Hemorrhage, and has also had a stoma bag fitted.

Louise was also placed on suicide watch due to being ‘mentally checked out’ following the traumatic birth.  

On Wednesday she gave fans an update as she shared a snap of herself in a hospital gown, writing: ‘Looks dramatic but it wasn’t. I had a proctoscopy today. It’s like a colonoscopy but not as invasive because I don’t have a colon so there isn’t very far the camera can go’

‘Still bloody awkward and a tiny bit uncomfortable but fentanyl is a wonder drug.’

In another picture shared on her stories, Louise was seen with a nasal cannula on her face and inserted into her nostrils.

She continued: ‘These appointments are so important and they managed to fit me in quite urgently so I jumped at the offering of a 24th December date, then when it came around I realised the magnitude of it being Christmas Eve.’

The TV personality sang the praises of the NHS, thanking them for ‘running in full swing’. 

‘Despite all the chaos of what I’ve been through, I still think we are incredibly lucky to have the NHS which NEVER clocks off in case of emergencies,’ she said. 

‘The NHS never sleeps,’ Louise continued in the next following Instagram story.

‘I had a proctoscope today.

‘A nice little Christmas Eve camera up my bum.

‘The NHS was still running in full swing. Well not quite, but you know what I mean.

‘It prompted me to say a big thank you to everyone that is working as part of the NHS over the bank holidays.’

‘Thanks for keeping the country ticking along and for keeping our loved ones alive,’ the former actress concluded.

Earlier this year, fiancé Ryan Libbey has revealed heartbreaking details of her battle with postpartum depression, following the birth of their son Leo. 

Speaking on the latest episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, Ryan, 34, shared: ‘We even had a crisis-management team come very regularly, which – to be really honest with you – was a suicide watch because she was so mentally checked out.

‘Which is absolutely terrifying, and I don’t think I’ve quite processed that one. I think that was something that I wanted to reframe straight away.

‘It’s really, really sad to know that Louise was hurting like that and she couldn’t, and I suppose I didn’t really understand what was happening.’

He continued: ‘I could understand that she was in shock and that she was completely reduced to a version of herself that was… she was just surrendering to the whole thing.

‘She’d lost the fight, and I could understand it because she would have been exhausted and her body would have been looking and feeling so different.

‘And to lie on the sofa with a vacant look on your face for days and weeks, I could understand that, but I couldn’t understand that we were in the place of potential: she wants to end her life, and she doesn’t really recognise or care for the baby in the room. At the time, I couldn’t quite understand that.’ 

Elsewhere during the interview, Ryan revealed that he unwittingly had resentment towards his partner Louise after the birth.

Giovanna began: ‘You had Louise not being the mum that you thought she would be because of everything she was going through.’

Ryan explained: ‘It was 10 or 11 months into it and I had my family say that I wasn’t ok. I had sunken into a state of depression without even knowing it.