EastEnders actress Natalie Cassidy has opened up about when her young daughter was rushed to hospital after suffering a “horrible” injury which put her family holiday at risk
EastEnders legend Natalie Cassidy has updated her fans after news broke about her daughter being rushed to hospital.
The actress was forced to take her daughter Joanie, seven, after she broke her arm doing a cartwheel. Joanie had to go under general anaesthetic and Natalie was left panicked after the process took longer than anticipated.
The actress, 41, told listeners about her experience on her podcast titled Life with Nat. She revealed how the surgery was more extensive than expected and did put their family holiday on the line.
However, on a more positive note, Natalie shared some holiday snaps with a lengthy caption explaining how they were fall feeling now. She wrote: “We made it on our holiday. Greece has been beautiful, a full week of only worrying about what we are eating, getting the good sunbeds and what ice creams we are eating next @elscass I think I’m converted.
“Apart from the old skin allergy always showing itself when abroad it’s been a corker. listen to my podcast Life With Nat out today to hear more. The waterproof cover for Joanie’s arm has been a life saver, thank you for all your lovely messages. Always look forward to coming home and seeing family and getting into my own bed though. thank you @ikosresorts for a great time. NOT AN AD. If bloody only #podcast #holiday #brokenbones #didntseethatcoming #madeit #lovelyjubbly”
Natalie explained: “We went into the hospital, she had her operation, she went under general anaesthetic which is horrible, it’s really really horrible to watch your child go under general anaesthetic and I felt rather stressed.”
“Mark came with me in the morning but he was filming the Proms so he had to go off and I sat there in the hospital. It’s meant to be roughly about an hour until they give you a call to say go down and meet your daughter in recovery.
“Hour, hour and a half, hour and 45 minutes, two hours, two and a quarter. I thought ‘What is going on?’, what’s happened?’, then this lovely nurse called Carla, all the staff by the way in Harlow are so wonderful.”
Natalie added: “Then she came over, Carla, she said, ‘Oh they have been quite a long time I’m going to ring down’. You think ‘For goodness sake if the nurse is worried, what’s going on?’
“So anyway it was about two and a half hours, I went down to see Joanie and they had to put two plates in [her] arm to hold the bones together because Joanie had broken two bones, so she’s got two little plates in her arm.”
“They’ve had to make some incisions, little cuts…because her bones were too small, couldn’t get the wires through and we weren’t really sure if we were going to be going on holiday. The big news is we’re going on holiday.”
