Richard Bacon feels "good to be alive" after doctors almost assumed he would die from lung infection
Richard Bacon had earlier revealed that he was "incredibly close" to dying when life-threatening illness led him to be put in a six-day coma. This time during an exclusive interview on the September 25 episode of 'Good Morning Britain', the TV personality mentioned that even the doctors had expected him to die of a near-fatal lung infection.
The 42-year-old was put in a medically-induced coma following his failure to respond to treatment for suspected pneumonia when the TV and radio presenter had fallen ill during a plane journey. His mother, Christine Bacon, had taken to Twitter to inform about Bacon's improving health after it was almost assumed that he would never wake up. During his interview with The Times, the presenter had said that being in the hospital for a something as minor as flu made him recall the Spanish flu of 1918- one of the deadliest influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people.
