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Channel 5 anchor describes being rushed to hospital for health emergency
"Live moves pretty fast," Doug Meehan said in a video posted to TikTok.
Local news anchor Doug Meehan was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after hosting an event at Gillette Stadium, he said in a video posted on Saturday.
The Channel 5 anchor told the story on TikTok, apparently filmed in a hospital bed.
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“Life moves pretty fast,” the West Yarmouth native said in the opening of the video.
Meehan, 60, said he was at a “beautiful event” in Gillette Stadium on Thursday. The event was a gala with the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting cancer patients.
Meehan, who is a cancer survivor, said he was hospitalized later that evening. In the video, he said a blockage in his bowel caused him to call an ambulance.
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At the hospital, he said, he had a hose that went up his nose and into his stomach for around 30 hours to clear the blockage.
“That was not fun,” he said.
Meehan currently co-anchors Channel 5’s weekday morning EyeOpener newscast.
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