Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen has revealed her son 'nearly died' after a medical emergency which meant he had to be airlifted to hospital. The mother of nine recently made her return to TV with her new series of on More 4 programme Our Farm Next Door.
Son recalls terrifying ordeal
During the latest episode Amanda spoke to her son Miles, now 19, about the terrifying ordeal as the pair enjoyed some quality time together. He said: "Today, I've come here with mam and we're gonna do a bit of painting. It's a big step in the process, it's starting to feel more like a home and we're just getting nearer and nearer to the finished project so, it's exciting stuff."
Amanda then opened up about Miles' incident as she said: "Me and Miles, we're pretty thick together, Miles went through a stage where he was diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1. So that was quite a scary moment, you know, he nearly died. Which was pretty big. But now to see him and him being so strong and so assertive and so positive about everything, that's wonderful."
Miles added: "It's nice just doing this with my mum because there's usually everybody buzzing about helping, so just me and mam today, it's really nice," reports the Express.
Air ambulance response
During an instalment of Reuben Owen: Life In The Dales on Channel 5 last year, viewers watched as air ambulance raced to the farm. Amanda and Miles were shown travelling to the Great North Air Ambulance Service's headquarters to watch the helicopter touching down on the landing pad before the GNAAS personnel gave them a guided tour of their life-preserving equipment.
Miles had a diabetic crisis on the farm and luckily made a full recovery in hospital following treatment. At the time, Amanda wrote on Instagram: "Tonight's episode of Reuben Owen: Life In The Dales is a challenging one."
"It has taken until now to share what happened in December 2022 when there was a big emergency on the farm. Miles wanted to share what happened to him hopefully to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), which is a potentially life-threatening acute complication."
Father recalls panic stations
Father Clive Owen revealed on the show: "I think potentially one of the worst days of my life, I think you could safely say. I thought, because he's been ill I'll let him have a rest for an hour before I wake him up to do his work. Finally when I did come in about half past nine, he was laid out on the stairs. Couldn't stand, his head back, struggling to breathe, and you could see there was something wrong here. So, panic stations."
Amanda added: "It was definitely an emergency but we didn't know to what degree. And we know, it's two hours to get to a hospital in the car." Clive agreed, adding: "It's very remote, everybody else can have an ambulance in 10 minutes, for us it's about an hour."
