This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes remembers being horrified when the doctor informed him that the shingles he was diagnosed with could cause him to go blind.
Eamonn, 61, described how seeing himself in the mirror with red scars all over his face was like "waking up in a horror movie".The presenter contracted the illness back in 2018, but only spoke about his experience publicly this year in order to raise awareness and help people to avoid the ordeal he went through.
Describing the first time he looked at himself in the mirror with shingles, he said: “I literally jumped back at my image shouting ‘what the heck is this?’“It was like waking up in a horror movie.”He then explained how the threat of blindness came as a terrifying shock soon.
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