Former Liverpool player Jay Spearing has been diagnosed with Addison’s disease after being taken to hospital on Christmas Eve.
“I will not let her control my life,” he wrote on Instagram.
On Christmas Eve, former Liverpool player and now youth coach Jay Spring had to go to hospital after ill-fated blood tests.
Spring was hours away from suffering from an Addisonian crisis – a life-threatening condition in which the adrenal glands are unable to produce cortisone for the body – but she arrived just in time.
The call: “Find a doctor”
He has now been diagnosed with Addison’s disease.
It is a chronic disease which means that you have a deficiency of several vital hormones from the adrenal glands. But with treatment, you can usually continue to live as you did before, according to 1177.
According to the BBC, 300 new cases of the disease are recorded in the UK each year.
“It took a while to get over it, but I’m thankful for his diagnosis and that it can be controlled with hormone pills. I’m not going to let him control my life,” Spring wrote on Instagram and concludes with advice:
“See a doctor if you feel like something is different in your body — no matter how small!”
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Jay Spring, who grew up in Merseyside, started playing for Liverpool as a seven-year-old and made 55 appearances over five seasons in the red shirt.
Presently, the 34-year-old is coaching the club’s U18 team – but he’s also registered as an over-age player for Liverpool’s U21 team. There he is listed for appearances this season.