Channel Seven star Kate McCarthy has described a life-threatening health scare after collapsing at Melbourne airport and being rushed to hospital.
The quarterback and former AFLW player, 31, was in attendance before heading to Melbourne for coverage of the AFL Grand Final. Brisbane.
But two days after the grand final, before returning to Melbourne, Kate fell ill on her flight.
“I felt very sick on the plane, I vomited and it wasn't very pleasant,” she said. Herald of the sun.
The sports star added that he was sitting in a Melbourne airport terminal before seeking medical help from a member of the flight crew.
“They called an ambulance for me. “I thought an ambulance was too much, but in the end I was very lucky that they called one, because when it arrived I was lying on the ground, and not very well,” he continued.
Kate, who played in the AFLW for Brisbane, St Kilda and Hawthorn, was quickly linked to the monitors by paramedics.
She soon suffered ventricular tachycardia, a fast and life-threatening abnormal heart rhythm, and was rushed to the hospital.
Channel Seven star Kate McCarthy has described a life-threatening health scare after collapsing at Melbourne airport and being rushed to hospital.
“The paramedics started to be very urgent,” Kate said.
“They immediately put pib patches on me and injected me with adrenaline, but fortunately I lost my rhythm after two or three minutes.
“They took me to the Royal Melbourne, where I was housed for three days.”
Doctors told Kate they didn't know why she had gone through this ordeal and that they would perform follow-up tests with a cardiologist.
Last month, he was delighted when Brisbane's AFLW team beat the Adelaide Crows in a two-point thriller at home, but on Monday, September 30, McCarthy landed at the airport in his ongoing health battle.
Kate McCarthy, who suffers from heart disease, had a scare after an episode of ventricular tachycardia (VT) on Monday.
Weekend where @brisbanelions and @lionsaflw double up to send you into ventricular tachycardia [a type of abnormal heart rhythm, or arrhythmia]“McCarthy wrote on social media.
“It's already decided, but Monday night's check shows that the pacemaker acts like a swan on the big stage.”
McCarthy has had a pacemaker since he was 12 due to childhood seizures.
McCarthy was initially diagnosed with 'intermediate 3' heart block when he was a toddler and eventually had a pacemaker fitted in high school.
An ambulance came and I had a seizure in the ambulance and then another in the emergency room. I think I had seven seizures that day,” McCarthy previously told Sports Voice.
During her AFLW playing days, Kate McCarthy was an all-Australian representative on the books of the Brisbane Lions.
'When I had a seizure, I would lose consciousness for about 20 or 30 seconds during the seizure and then it would come back.
'The most important thing for mom and dad was that I really liked sport: I did triathlons, so I swam a lot and cycled.
'They were very worried about what would happen if I swam or cycled.
'So I had emergency surgery the next day and they put in a pacemaker and it took care of itself from there. It never happened again after that.'
A qualified teacher, McCarthy represented the Lions, St Kilda and Hawthorn before ending his AFLW career in 2022.
He is now widely regarded as a rising star in the food media and is a key figure in Channel 7's AFL and AFLW coverage.
McCarthy earns much praise on Armchair Experts and on the co-hosting panel of Talking W shows.
