WCVB NewsCenter 5 anchor Doug Meehan said he was rushed to the hospital after the cancer survivor hosted a charity fundraiser for cancer patients last week.

The 60-year-old Boston TV anchor came forward about the terrifying ordeal in a TikTok post from his hospital bed titled, “Life changes quickly.”

He sounded quite hoarse in the video, explaining that a hose had been up his throat for more than a day.

“Life moves pretty fast,” Meehan said in the post.

Meehan on Thursday evening was emceeing the Joe Andruzzi Foundation’s fundraising gala at Gillette Stadium, calling it a “beautiful event.”

“By Thursday night, I was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance because of blockage in my bowel,” Meehan said. “So here we are, Saturday afternoon, and I just had a hose removed that went up my nose, through my throat, into my stomach, and it was there for 30 hours.

“That was not fun,” he added.

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Meehan is a prostate cancer survivor. He has shared his prostate cancer story to encourage other men to pay attention to their health.

“I was diagnosed in the middle of COVID and put on active surveillance, to monitor by PSA (prostate-specific antigen) number and Gleason score and sit on it for a few years, so to speak,” Meehan explained in a Jimmy Fund post. “But when the time came that by Gleason score increased, we had to make the decision between radiation and hormone therapy or surgery.”

Meehan made the call to have surgery, as that provided the option to have further radiation and hormone therapy, if needed — while starting with radiation left no option for surgery.

As it turns out, when they removed his prostate and the cancer, there was still some cancer that remained, and his team was able to treat it.

Meehan is a co-anchor of WCVB’s weekday morning EyeOpener newscasts. Previously, Meehan was co-anchor of WCVB’s weekend EyeOpener newscasts. He has been with WCVB since the end of 2015.

Meehan was also previously the host of “The Doug Meehan Show” on Boston’s WTKK 96.9 FM.

He’s also known for his time as a reporter and anchor at Boston’s WFXT-TV (Fox 25 before), where he was the market’s first full-time helicopter reporter covering traffic as well as breaking news.

Meehan has worked at Boston’s WHDH-TV as a reporter and relief anchor, and he was a reporter at New England Cable News.