Prue Leith shares health update after being rushed to hospital with suspected stroke

PRUE Leith has shared a health update after she was rushed to hospital with a suspected stroke. The Great British Bake Off judge, 86, was taken by emergency services to hospital after being left unable to see or speak. Prue Leith has shared a health update after revealing she was rushed to hospital Credit: Shutterstock She took to Instagram to tell her fans she was “alive and kicking” Credit: prueleith/ Instagram But now she’s on the straight and narrow as she’s revealed she’s “alive and kicking”. Taking to her Instagram stories, she shared a snap of herself at an outdoor restaurant, enjoying a delicious dessert. Sign up for the TV newsletter Thank you! Dressed in her trademark colourful get-up with a green dress, rainbow necklace and neon glasses, she beamed from ear to ear in the snap. She wrote across it: “For those who have messaged me, I wrote a piece of @theoldiemagazine about my trip to hospital a couple of months ago. “I was fine shortly after and I am very much alive and kicking now!” Earlier this week, the news of Prue’s health scare was revealed as she feared she was having a stroke. The national treasure was enjoying a getaway in Yorkshire when she suffered the health scare that left her unable to string a sentence together. Prue’s worried husband, John Playfair, called 999 after the star’s speech turned into an “incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words”. Most read in TV Prue was taken to hospital in an ambulance after losing her sight and being unable to speak Credit: Getty Her husband called an ambulance for her Credit: Shutterstock Writing in her column Prue’s News in the September issue of The Oldie magazine, which is out on Friday, Prue said: “A few weeks ago, staying in Yorkshire, I had a migraine attack. “It followed a familiar path. First, I can see only half of whatever I’m looking at. “This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision. “If I don’t swiftly swallow one of my migraine ‘bombs’ (three pills: paracetamol, ibuprofen and sumatriptan), a crashing headache will follow.” Going into detail about how medics rushed to her care, Prue continued: “This time, my incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words convinced John I was having a stroke. “I tried to tell him it was just a migraine, but I couldn’t string two words together. “He rang our doctor, who asked me, could I raise my arms? Yes. Make a fist? Yes. Did anything hurt? No. Was the side of my face drooping? No. “In spite of my answers, she ordered an ambulance to take me to Harrogate Hospital. “The ambulance man asked me the same questions, as did a nurse on arrival at A&E, and so, after a six-hour wait, did the doctor. “In spite of my assuring him (I’d recovered coherent speech by then) that it was a migraine, he decided on a CT scan. Two hours later, I had one, waited another hour for the results, and was released at 2am.” Reflecting on her childhood, Prue revealed she suffered her first ever migraine aged nine where her speech went so “bananas” she tried to say she wanted to be sick, but accidentally blurted out: “I want fish.” The star explained: “When I had my first attack, I was trying to tell my mother I wanted to be sick, but it came out ‘I want fish.’” Comment now