Carol Vorderman said she was hospitalized after tripping over a tree root outside her house and hitting a tarmac path, leaving her unconscious. She said the accident happened at the very end of May and left her dealing with hospital treatment, vomiting, and weeks of dizziness.
“So right at the very end of May, I was walking just outside my house on a public footpath, and I tripped over a tree root which I didn’t see. I went ‘smash’ on the tarmac path and I was unconscious,” she said. She added: “I can’t remember what happened then, but I do know that an ambulance came, and I was taken to the BRI, Bristol Royal Infirmary.”
Carol Vorderman and BRI
Vorderman said she was discharged the following day, but the recovery did not stay linear. She said “massive vomiting” sent her straight back into hospital, where “The A&E did all the CT scans and everything.” For readers, that sequence shows the difference between a short stay and the need for another assessment when symptoms worsened after discharge.
She said, “They were wonderful,” after the second hospital visit. Her description is a reminder that a head injury can look settled at first and still prompt a return to hospital when symptoms change.
June and the Epley technique
Vorderman said her face carried the impact for weeks: “I had the biggest black eye or bruises all down my face for three or four weeks.” She said dizziness began after about two or three weeks, and that the room spun when she put her head back on the pillow.
To treat that dizziness, she said she received the Epley technique, which she described as being “all about the inner ear and this little sack of crystals that gets dislodged.” She also said, “When she did it the first time, I thought I was falling off the edge of Earth.”
What remains with the reader is the scale of the fall itself: one slip on a public footpath led to unconsciousness, an ambulance ride, a second hospital visit, and a recovery that stretched into June. Vorderman’s account ends there, with the treatment described but the diagnosis after the fall and dizziness not stated.
