Selling Sunset star Amanza Smith claims she is finally out of the hospital and “on the mend” after a week-long ordeal that left her in “excruciating” pain. ”.
The star of Netflix’s real estate reality series provided an update on her struggle with osteomyelitis, a painful infection that spread from her bloodstream to her spine and required two operations to remove diseased portions of her bones.
She spent a month at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, but an update posted on her Instagram stories indicates that she is now back at home.
She wrote, “31 days later, I’m out!”. For the next few weeks, I will be spending my days and nights being permanently hooked up to my new antibiotic machine while learning how to use it.
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In the picture, she was seated on a couch wearing sweatpants and a Georgetown shirt as a disguised nurse demonstrated the operation of her new antibiotic machine.
Smith’s left arm, which was previously seen with intravenous tubes attached, was now wrapped in a white bandage.
She had posted an update a week earlier, saying that she was “getting stronger and can walk with a walker to the bathroom and around the room a bit when my pain meds are allowing me to do so. She included a clip of herself entering what appeared to be a CT scanner while stating that it was “Day 23” and adding that it was.
“I might be able to go home once we just manage this pain. Please pray that this girl’s final scan is clear so that she can potentially return home soon. ”.
The 46-year-old realtor began blogging about her struggle with osteomyelitis on June 11 and shared that she initially sought medical attention after experiencing “a month of excruciating pain.”. ” .
Smith claimed that a bulging disc was to blame for the pain. However, once Smith was admitted to the hospital, the staff found that he had osteomyelitis, an infection that caused a significant amount of infection to spread to his spine’s bones.
Surgery to remove the infected portions of her spine was necessary due to her illness. Smith admitted that even though the initial surgery didn’t completely clear the infection, “I still have an infection [in] a little bit higher portion of my spine, but it’s on the front of the spine so the procedure or surgery that they would have to do to remove it is quite risky. ”.
Antibiotics, however, failed to treat the infection that persisted, and on June 16 Smith announced that a second procedure would be necessary.
She stated in the caption of the picture, “Part of my spine has completely degenerated due to the infection, and I’ll be getting a new vertebrae and a few screws and rods in my spine to replace what has been eaten away by the bacteria.”.
She revealed in a post on June 19 that the procedure this time was “absolutely perfection”. “I’m thankful that they were able to get the infection out of not just my bone but also the potentially dangerous areas around it that could have affected my organs. ”.
The positive aspect of the situation, according to Smith, is that her doctors were “right on top of everything to get the answers we need to get me to where I need to be, which is better.”. ”.
