Stephen Graham has emergency surgery on a plane after 'weeing blood'

Evening Standard

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00:00So then after about two and a half hours into the flight,

00:02I go to the toilet and I can't wee.

00:07And I'm like, and I'm like, oh, this, this, this,

00:10this doesn't feel right.

00:11Right.

00:12Cause you definitely need to, you know you have to.

00:15Well I knew I had to, and then silly Stephen thought,

00:19oh well if I go back to my seat and I just keep drinking

00:21water at some point it will happen.

00:22Oh yeah, that seems like, yeah.

00:25Yeah, so I went back to my seat, I asked for more water,

00:28went three and a half hours into the flight now.

00:31And then I goes to the toilet, tries to go to the toilet

00:33and I'm there and I'm, it's not coming out.

00:36But you know, when you're pressing, you know,

00:37when you're dying to go that situation and I had to look down,

00:40it was like a little pregnant belly.

00:42Yeah.

00:43And then all of a sudden, anyway, long story short,

00:45all of a sudden I went, but it was just pure blood.

00:48Well that's that good.

00:50Yeah, it was very scary.

00:51Yeah.

00:52And so, and I couldn't stop this trajectory of blood

00:55and I was like, oh, and I'm having a slight panic attack.

00:58A slight?

00:58Yeah, yeah.

01:00A slight panic attack.

01:02I'm very British still, you know, Seth.

01:04So I've got myself together and I'm cleaning it up,

01:06I'm cleaning the mess up.

01:07Oh, you are so British.

01:09Well, yeah, and you don't want the next person to come in

01:11and go, oh my God, what's happening?

01:13So I'm doing it and then all of a sudden,

01:14I look out the window and I'm about to cry,

01:16I'm having a bit of a moment and I look out the window

01:17and all of a sudden I just get this overwhelming feeling

01:21of calmness and I meditate and I kind of hit that stage,

01:25but it was really peaceful.

01:27And I remembered there was a doctor on board

01:31because you know when you get on the bus to go to your plane?

01:33Yeah.

01:34I just took a selfie with this doctor.

01:37He told me he was a doctor anyway,

01:38so I'm thinking, I'm all right, there's a doctor on board.

01:41So anyway, I told the woman this embarrassing situation,

01:44she put it over, we have to check with air traffic control

01:46and blah, blah, blah.

01:47Next minute, the doctor comes around the corner

01:50and he goes, Stephen.

01:52And I'm like, Doc, hello.

01:55And I explained the situation

01:56and he had another friend with him who was a surgeon.

02:00So I'm there, I explain, he's like, okay.

02:02And the surgeon, Dr. Hadji says, okay, we can work this out.

02:07He gets the emergency kit and they sterilize the whole area.

02:10You know what, on a plane, the way you go to the posh seats,

02:13which is that way, and you go to normal seats,

02:15which is that way.

02:16So there's a lounge in the middle and they sterilize the area.

02:19And basically there's a catheter in the box.

02:24Did they, I hope they asked everyone to leave the lounge.

02:28Well, there was no public there, but the staff were there.

02:32So Claire, who was the air stewardess and she was the manager

02:35and all the cabin crew were in the room as well.

02:39And they're holding curtains at the exit.

02:41And Dr. Hadji asked me, would I lower my pants?

02:45So I dropped me kex, I get on the couch

02:49and he performs a catheter operation there and then.

02:53And fine?

02:55Well, the relief was unbelievable, as you can imagine.

02:59But it was a little clot that had got stuck behind.

03:01Well, not little, but you know, it was a clot

03:04that had got stuck behind my urethra.

03:06But then you were fine, but like when you walked off the plane, fine.

03:08Well, then I went to the toilet and it was one of the nicest experiences,

03:12me and my penis.

03:13Yeah, yeah.

03:14I mean it in that right way.

03:15Yeah.

03:16You know, one of the finest experiences I've ever had with my...

03:18Yeah.

03:19Yeah, that's great.

03:20Apart from pleasurable, I mean, do you know what I mean?

03:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:24So anyway, so that was that, that was that.

03:27And I went in and I came running in like a child who'd just been...

03:31Remember when you trained your kids to go to the toilet?

03:33Yeah.

03:34And that face they'd come running out with.

03:36So I came out to the cabin crew and I was like, I'm done it, I'm done it.

03:40And then they all clapped.

03:41We don't have to describe the face, you took a photo and that's the face.

03:48Yeah.

03:49And, and Dr. Ola, Dr. Ola and Dr. Hadji, they were the two wonderful people who performed

03:56the surgery.

03:57Unbelievable.

03:58Yeah.

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