Martin Roberts has opened up about hospital scare last month, revealing that he "hallucinated" and was "hours from death" before doctors rushed him into surgery.
The Homes Under the Hammer star, 58, saw his health take a turn for the worse last month and was left in a "serious" condition.
Recalling his brush from death, Martin explained how it had forced him to change his life and how he was lucky to still be alive.
Speaking to The Sun, he said: "I like being on the go, I’ve been presenting Homes Under The Hammer for 19 years and I’m determined to make it to 20, next May.
"There are still so many things I want to achieve, but I know I have to take things slowly from now on."
He explained that he needed to stop leading such a "frantic" life and, now that he's been given a second chance, he doesn't want to waste it.
Over the Easter Holiday weekend, Martin had been suffering from a shortness of breath, exhaustion and said that it felt like his chest was heavy.
Thankfully, Martin didn't ignore his symptoms and asked his wife-of-12-years Kirsty to take him to the Royal United Hospital in bath.
He feared he would be wasting the hospital staff's time, but that his symptoms were getting worse.
“I was hallucinating and I couldn’t write things down properly," he said. “Letters would be in the wrong order when I was filling in the form at the hospital.
“The wait time when we arrived was four hours but within 45 seconds of arriving, a nurse saw me, and things went fast from there.”
Through scans, they discovered he had pericardial effusion - a condition that saw the lining of his heart inflamed and filled with liquid, which was putting pressure on his heart.
After the surgery, he discovered that his liver and kidneys were operating at jus 30 percent and that his lungs were weakening.
"I should have been on the scrap- heap, so little inside me was working as it should," he said. "I surrendered myself to the professionals and it all seemed to happen so fast there wasn’t time for me to panic."
