Janicki Weeden’s holiday trip ended in hospital

Last week, TV profiler Jannecke Weeden (47) shared a post on Instagram Where she can say that during a holiday trip to Thailand she suddenly ended up in the hospital.

“One of my biggest fears (aside from flying, cockroaches, worrying about anxiety, etc.) is ending up in a hospital in a foreign country. But, with my back suddenly causing me to lose control of my left leg and some excruciating pain that I wouldn’t wish on anyone, it’s over.” I’m in the hospital on an island in Thailand…,” was among the things the 47-year-old said – an old book.

– Very scary

Weeden is now safely back home in Norway, and tells Dagbladet she doesn’t know the cause of the back problem, but she has her suspicions.

– I don’t really know why, but I have an old back surgery, and I also had a massage at the beach, and I’m a little afraid to let people stay in that area, so I just asked for a foot massage.

-But due to language problems, there may have been some misunderstandings. Suddenly she was sitting on top of one of my legs and bending and stretching in a way I’d never seen before, so I imagine that might have something to do with it. She explained that the nerve had been compressed because I had a titanium cage in my back.

The next day I had problems using one leg.

– It is obviously very scary to decide to go to the hospital on a small island in Thailand. For me, Ullevål is kind of scary. And when you get to the hospital and you’re taken seriously too, it becomes even scarier.

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– That was the limit

According to the 47-year-old woman, the doctors wanted her to undergo an MRI scan, and even offered to put her under anesthesia, which she refused.

– When I had an MRI for back surgery, I pressed the panic button that sends you out of the machine the whole time, so I didn’t have to go under anesthesia and into an MRI machine at a hospital on Koh Samui. “That’s exactly where I reached my limits,” Weeden laughs.

She also admits that she had some complications after back surgery, so she was nervous about what doctors might find out.

But what she got from the doctors instead were some pills to ease the pain.

– very sad

– Now I’m not going to throw anyone under the bus, but I imagine they’re more generous with drugs and different things there, than we’re used to in Norway. It’s a bit scary when the doctor says in very broken English: “I’ll give you some painkillers, but I won’t take them across the border.”

– In retrospect, it was a very strange experience, laughs the TV file.

You want to inspire

Weeden has stated multiple times that she suffers from anxiety, and she hopes what she experienced on this holiday trip will turn into an inspiration for those struggling with something similar.

-I feel bored for days

– When I can, very carefully, recover from this long trip, with the hospital stay, the rainy season, the iguana in my arms on the beach and all that, and still come home in one piece and think that I could have done everything new. I hope it inspires those who dream of daring to do things at home. Whether that means going to the post office, flying to London, or, like me, all the way to Bangkok.

Small steps and repeated exposure, that’s the trick, Weeden says.