Back in Melbourne after three months away, the Collingwood great said he fell ill after a trip to Mexico.“I actually had to ask the club doctor … I vomit that hard that the circulation gets cut off to my brain and I pass out and I hit the deck,’’ Swan said on his Hump Day with Swanny and Friends podcast.“Now I have to lay on the floor when I spew and vomit. (My partner) Taylor was in tears, she thought I was dead. “This was a legit virus, this wasn’t Mad Monday stuff. It wasn’t the Covid virus.“We got back from Mexico … I woke up in the middle of the night and (thought) I’m not well here. I have to vomit and get rid of this. Taylor was in tears.“She reckons I went stiff and my eyes rolled in the back of my head for 20 seconds, I didn’t move and was convulsing. And I wasn’t breathing and she thought I was dead. Then I woke up in sweats. I spewed and that was it.”Swan said he recovered from the scary incident and managed to get to LA over Super Bowl.Taylor was in Florida with their son, Tate, for his first birthday on February 13.“I didn’t go to Super Bowl … I’m not Eddie McGuire, I don’t have ten hundreds of millions of dollars, and I don’t get a free ride like Thommo (Dale Thomas) for a company that’s not Sportsbet,’’ he said. “My mates bought tickets and they were about $12,000 each. I’ve been before and I’ve been away on holidays for 3-4 months and probably gone over budget just a smidgen. “It was Tate’s birthday, (thought) I’ll just go to a party, I went to a mate’s party in the Hollywood Hills.”’Swan described trying to get back into Australia as like “the Spanish Inquisition” but he thinks he avoided catching Covid.“I thought I had it in Mexico but I tested twice and I was negative,’’ he said. “I don’t know whether I had it and just beat the system. If I had to guess I would say I got it in Mexico.”Swan also said he is playing footy again at the end of March.
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