If you follow her on Facebook, you know that the family of Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson has been gearing up for a major Christmas toy drive for several weeks. What you (or I, at least) haven't heard about on their Facebook page is that her father,
Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson, had a serious health scare at the event:
Paramedics were called to Alana Thompson's home in McIntyre, Ga., after Mike "Sugar Bear" Thompson, 40, fell ill... Sugar Bear, who usually dresses up as Santa Claus and greets all the neighborhood kids for the toy drive, allegedly had high blood pressure.
"Usually you're allowed to sit on Sugar Bear's lap... But he was not feeling well ... they were worried his blood pressure was getting high."
"An ambulance was called to the house, but he was not taken off in it," the insider added, "[he] just got checked out by paramedics."
Fortunately, it sounds like things worked out for Sugar Bear. This isn't his first health scare in recent history. Three months ago, Sugar Bear suffered a major infection in one of his legs that nearly led to its amputation following an ATV accident.
