WCVB NewsCenter 5 anchor Doug Meehan mentioned he was rushed to the hospital after the most cancers survivor hosted a charity fundraiser for most cancers sufferers final week.
The 60-year-old Boston TV anchor got here ahead concerning the terrifying ordeal in a TikTok publish from his hospital mattress titled, “Life changes quickly.”
He sounded fairly hoarse within the video, explaining {that a} hose had been up his throat for greater than a day.
“Life moves pretty fast,” Meehan mentioned within the publish.
Meehan on Thursday night was emceeing the Joe Andruzzi Basis’s fundraising gala at Gillette Stadium, calling it a “beautiful event.”
“By Thursday night, I was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance because of blockage in my bowel,” Meehan mentioned. “So right here we’re, Saturday afternoon, and I simply had a hose eliminated that went up my nostril, by way of my throat, into my abdomen, and it was there for 30 hours.
“That was not fun,” he added.
@dougmeehan Life modifications rapidly.
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Meehan is a prostate most cancers survivor. He has shared his prostate most cancers story to encourage different males to concentrate to their well being.
“I was diagnosed in the middle of COVID and put on active surveillance, to monitor by PSA (prostate-specific antigen) number and Gleason score and sit on it for a few years, so to speak,” Meehan defined in a Jimmy Fund publish. “But when the time came that by Gleason score increased, we had to make the decision between radiation and hormone therapy or surgery.”
Meehan made the decision to have surgical procedure, as that offered the choice to have additional radiation and hormone remedy, if wanted — whereas beginning with radiation left no choice for surgical procedure.
Because it seems, once they eliminated his prostate and the most cancers, there was nonetheless some most cancers that remained, and his group was capable of deal with it.
Meehan is a co-anchor of WCVB’s weekday morning EyeOpener newscasts. Beforehand, Meehan was co-anchor of WCVB’s weekend EyeOpener newscasts. He has been with WCVB for the reason that finish of 2015.
Meehan was additionally beforehand the host of “The Doug Meehan Show” on Boston’s WTKK 96.9 FM.
He’s additionally identified for his time as a reporter and anchor at Boston’s WFXT-TV (Fox 25 earlier than), the place he was the market’s first full-time helicopter reporter protecting visitors in addition to breaking information.
Meehan has labored at Boston’s WHDH-TV as a reporter and aid anchor, and he was a reporter at New England Cable Information.
