DJ Toby Anstis says he feared he’d die of coronavirus after being left too weak to call his own ambulance

DJ Toby Anstis says he thought he was going to die from coronavirus after being too ill to call 999.

The Heart radio host says he was ‘so weak’ he was unable to ask for help.

The 49-year-old told the MailOnline he was scared to go to sleep in case he didn’t wake up and lost a stone in only ten days.

But the host is back to full health and is busy looking after his body with park workouts.

He said: “I physically and mentally shut down. There was one night where I wasn’t sure if I would wake up in the morning, but I was so ill, I just fell asleep.

“I was about two minutes from calling an ambulance at my worst, but didn’t have the strength to pick up the phone.

“My twin sister Kate called a doctor who came round about midnight one night and he prescribed me steroids to keep the airway in my lungs open.

“It was pretty bad pneumonia-type symptoms. And I lost nearly a stone in ten days. I completely lost my appetite and could only manage lemon barley water.

“The cough was debilitating and I was still trying to record links at home for Heart Dance Breakfast.

“After that, I would crawl back into bed and stay there for the rest of the day. Getting out of bed took half an hour. It took weeks to properly recover.”

He continued: “Things could have been very different. I can’t stop thinking about all the people who weren’t as lucky as me. It reminds you to never take life for granted.”

He wrote alongside a picture of him training on social media: “Since overcoming Covid-19, been putting in extra hard work in and feeling fitter and stronger than ever.”

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