Emmerdale Jeff Hordley's chronic illness - terrifying collapse, death fears and surgery
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dailystar.co.ukEmmerdale's Cain Dingle, Jeff had been suffering from stomach cramps and diarrhoea for six years when he got he news. The same disease had inadvertently caused his mother's death in 1979.
He has said: "When I was just nine, my mum had died from the very same illness. My reaction was, ‘Am I going to die too?’"Doctors reassured Jeff that her death had been caused by complications in surgery - and that medical advancements meant that his condition could be more easily treated.Following his diagnosis, he had surgery to remove the diseased part of the large bowel and to allow his "gut to heal".Jeff was then put on medication to help prevent damage and was fine for seven years.
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