The Good, The Bad, and the Unexpected<\/em> podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\nJamie was not the only young, athletic man to suffer heart attack symptoms.<\/p>\n
His friend Gordon also ended up in the hospital during their recent trip to a golfing resort in Portugal. This happened last year, in 2023.<\/p>\nJamie Dornan attends the Netflix\u2019s Tudum: A Global Fan Event 2023 at Funda\u00c3\u00a7\u00c3\u00a3o Bienal de S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo on June 17, 2023. (Photo Credit: Alexandre Schneider\/Getty Images for NETFLIX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAt first, Jamie Dornan\u2019s symptoms were not too bad.<\/h2>\n Gordon Smart shared that, far from assuming the worst, he and Jamie initially believed that they\u2019d simply had too many drinks the night before.<\/p>\n
Still, it was bad enough that they had to go to the hospital. Alcohol can cause heart failure and other medical emergencies (it is literally <\/em>a poison), but it was not the culprit.<\/p>\nInstead, Gordon and Jamie learned that this was all due to a nasty encounter with processionary caterpillars. Yes, caterpillars<\/em>.<\/p>\nJamie Dornan attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023. (Photo Credit: Dominic Lipinski\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat are pine processionary moth caterpillars?<\/h2>\n The caterpillars that hospitalized Jamie Dornan are a known pest in Europe and Asia, famous for irritating hairs and for damaging pines and cedars. These caterpillars possess tiny hairs containing a toxin \u2014 a protein, specifically \u2014 that causes painful irritation in the skin, eye, and throat.<\/p>\n
Gordon recalled feeling a \u201ctingling in his left and and tickling in his left arm\u201d just one day into the vacation.<\/p>\n
He very understandably believed this to be \u201cthe sign of the start of a heart attack.\u201d<\/p>\nHonoree Jamie Dornan speaks onstage during US-Ireland Alliance\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 16th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards at The Ebell Club of Los Angeles on March 24, 2022. (Photo Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for US-Ireland Alliance)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNow, I\u2019m a fairly healthy guy but once you start thinking, you\u2019re having a heart attack, you\u2019re pretty sure that you\u2019re convincing yourself that you are having one,\u201d Gordon reasoned.<\/p>\n
He shared that he received a discharge from the hospital after doctors and nurses had looked him over. They had not yet advised him of the cause of his symptoms, however.<\/p>\n
However, he was not alone. He soon saw buddy Jamie Dornan hooked up to medical equipment.<\/p>\nJamie Dornan attends the Loewe Womenswear Fall Winter 2023-2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 03, 2023. (Photo Credit: Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images for Loewe)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLike Gordon, Jamie Dornan was hospitalized<\/h2>\n \u201cJamie said, \u2018Dear me. Gordon, about 20 minutes after you left, my left arm went numb, my left leg went numb, my right leg went numb, and I found myself in the back of an ambulance,\u2019\u201d Gordon recalled on the podcast.<\/p>\n
It sounds like Jamie experienced more severe symptoms than Gordon.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyway, as he left the hospital, the paramedics asked them for a selfie,\u201d Gorden described, \u201cwhich is really <\/em>what you want when you\u2019re being wheeled out of a hospital room.\u201d That last part was sarcastic.<\/p>\nJamie Dornan speaks onstage during the 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 13, 2022. (Photo Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIt was only a week later that Gordon and Jamie heard from the doctor, who offered an explanation.<\/p>\n
Toxic caterpillars are seldom anyone\u2019s first suspect. But the location, and their time at a golf resort, were a major clue.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it turns out that there are caterpillars on golf courses in the south of Portugal,\u201d Gordon explained, \u201cthat have been killing people\u2019s dogs and giving men in their 40s heart attacks.\u201d<\/p>\nJamie Dornan attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022. (Photo Credit: Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe two friends had bad luck \u2014 but it could have been worse<\/h2>\n \u201cIt turns out we\u2019d brushed up against hairy processionary caterpillars and have been very lucky to come out of that one alive,\u201d Gordon summarized.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s my story; the good news is it wasn\u2019t a caffeine overdose, it wasn\u2019t a hangover \u2014 it was a poisonous, toxic caterpillar,\u201d he then spelled out.<\/p>\n
That is good news. Caterpillars use natural defenses like irritating proteins to deter predators, but it can make them a danger to anyone who gets too close.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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