Actor Jamie Dornan was hospitalised after an encounter with poisonous caterpillars in Portugal final yr, in accordance with buddy and Scottish broadcaster Gordan Good.
Good recalled the incident throughout an episode of BBC’s The Good, the Unhealthy and the Sudden
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He and three associates, together with the Fifty Shades of Gray starornan, 41, have been on a golf journey in Portugal, which included an evening of ingesting wine and espresso martinis.
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The next day Good mentioned he began to really feel “tingling in my left hand and tingling in my left arm,” which he figured was “usually the signal of the beginning of a coronary heart assault.”
He known as an Uber to take him to hospital and handed out. When he got here to he was in hospital.
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“As I used to be mendacity there, one of many different lads I used to be with went previous on a hospital mattress with docs shouting the identical inquiries to him,” Good mentioned.
“And I believed, ‘That is not signal that he is in the identical state as me.'”
He realised Dornan was additionally within the hospital.
“There [Dornan] was with all these items hooked up to this chair saying, ‘Gordon, about 20 minutes after you left, my left arm went numb, my left leg went numb, my proper leg went numb. And I discovered myself behind an ambulance,'” he recalled.
Good added that one of many ambulance officers had requested Dornan for a selfie.
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Every week after the journey Good mentioned he acquired a name from the physician who requested him if the group had come into contact with caterpillars throughout their {golfing} having discovered a neighborhood information story about them.
Pine processionary moth caterpillars bites could cause all of the signs the boys had skilled and a few undergo allergic reactions to them which worsen signs.
“It seems that there are caterpillars on golf programs within the south of Portugal which have been killing folks’s canine and giving males of their 40s coronary heart assaults,” Good mentioned.
“It seems we brushed up once more processionary caterpillars and had been very fortunate to come back out of that one alive.
“So there’s my story. The excellent news is it wasn’t a caffeine overdose, it wasn’t a hangover. It was a toxic, poisonous caterpillar.
Dornan rose to fame when he was solid as Christian Gray within the Fifty Shades film collection, primarily based on the most effective promoting books.
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He’s at the moment starring within the Australian TV collection The Vacationer. Season 2 is airing on Stan.
Dornan is an novice golfer and has competed within the pro-am occasion on the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
He additionally performed within the Irish Open in 2017 and the J.P McManus Professional-Am in 2022.
