The former Olympic champion has not recovered fully from a severe allergic reaction, but is determined to outline the personal reasons behind an Institute for Cancer Research campaign he is leading
After his run, Rutherford texted his fiancée Susie Verrill, 33, with whom he has three children, to say he felt itchy and was having some kind of allergic reaction. He called two minutes later in extreme pain and Verrill dialled 999, but was told an ambulance would take 40 minutes to arrive. She left the children at her friend’s house, where they had been enjoying a roast dinner, and raced home to take Rutherford into hospital herself.
“I don’t know what happened but clearly something went very wrong. I was stung by a wasp, twice, about 10 days before and apparently, if you already have high levels of histamine in your system from something like a sting, other things can trigger a massive allergic reaction. We’ve got all of that to look into.”
When asked if he thinks the NHS will still be there for his children – aged between two and eight – as it has for previous generations, Rutherford says: “You hope so. First and foremost with regards to the NHS: when you’ve been to so many countries as I have and had medical emergencies as an athlete as I did in the US, China, places like that, you realise what an incredible entity the health service is.
Reflecting on his first health scare, Rutherford says he was “stupid” not to have got checked out sooner. Doctors discovered the lump on his testes was in fact a cyst – a build-up of fluid – rather than cancer leaving him “massively relieved”.I don’t have any issue with bits of my body being checked, because I’ve spent all of my adult life treated by physios, doctors, running around in a pair of tight shorts and a vest.
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