The semifinal of “71 degrees north – Norway’s toughest celebrity” is approaching and the other participants have finally arrived in Svalbard, where the final will eventually take place.
Note! The case contains the details of the episode that airs on TV Sunday 6:11 am to 8:30 pm!
There will soon be dramatic scenes in Longyearbyen where Vegard Ylvisåker (43) feels severe pain affecting his back and stomach.
Ylvisåker noted the pains that hit him and stomach pains must have been a clear signal to the 43-year-old as to what could be wrong.
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– I started hearing owls in the swamp when I couldn’t get up, says Ylvisåker to Nettavisen.
Missing equipment
After Ylvisåker showed no signs of improvement, he was supervised by the production doctor. In the end, it was decided that Ylvisåker had to go to the only hospital on Svalbard.
There he learned that he had developed a kidney stone, which he experimented with for the third time.
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According to Ylvisåker, the hospital did not have enough equipment for a proper examination, but the doctor still concluded that it was the kidney stones that bothered the 43-year-old.
– If I hadn’t experienced this before, I wouldn’t have thought they were kidney stones. But it was a bit unpleasant feeling not knowing exactly what it was, says Ylvisåker.
Watch a video! After several hours of severe pain, Ylvisåker is hospitalized:
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Before the doctor’s visit, the 43-year-old had tried not to maximize the situation, but when he was out of the hospital he suddenly had a horrible realization.
– Then I realized that it could have consequences for the rest of the trip. It was a low point for me, says the TV profile.
– He was terrified
As mentioned, the Bergen resident has already had kidney stones several times and remembers the first time as quite brutal. Then he got so sick that he was hospitalized and given morphine.
When he learned that he had most likely received it for the third time, there was one thing in particular that he hoped to avoid during the Svalbard leg:
– I was terrified of being on a glacier and suddenly having a real attack, because then only morphine helps, he says and adds:
– They say this is the closest a man can give birth, he laughs.
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Discovery’s press contact, Marianne Aambø, tells Nettavisen that the program followed the procedure when Ylvisåker was struck by an illness.
– We always have a doctor with us on the stages who closely follows the participants. In this case, Vegard felt pain and kept our security team informed.
Ylvisåker is grateful for this, but doesn’t hide the fact that production management was like a double-edged sword for him.
He feared that the production would send him home if his condition did not improve and that he therefore tried to reduce the extent of the pain.
It is out of the question to withdraw
After Ylvisåker received the green light from the doctor, he was allowed to return to the “71 degrees north” band. By then the worst pains had subsided and he was sent back with painkillers.
But pain or not, the “71 degrees north” journey didn’t have to end here for the 43-year-old. It was completely out of the question to retire as the semifinal is fast approaching.
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The decision to continue with the stage was made by none other than Ylvisåker at the time, according to Marianne Aambø in Discovery.
– Hospital tests showed he was healthy in terms of health to let Vegard continue, so he had to decide for himself if he could handle it both and wanted to participate in the semifinals, he tells Nettavisen.
– I wasn’t particularly ready to go for a walk after the doctor’s visit, but at least I wasn’t ready to give up, he says and adds:
– You can tolerate some pain.
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