Amaza Smith Selling Sunset star has revealed that she was just days away from death by the time she was admitted to an L.A. hospital in June.
According to the actress in an interview with People's Magazine, she asked the doctor how long she would have survived if she wasn't admitted; I said to them, 'Yeah, you know, this was so severe I've been told that if I had waited like a week or two more I could be dead. Is that true?' I'm asking the doctor, and he was like, 'No, one or two more days at home, and you could have been dead,' the doctor Cedar-Sinai Medical Center explained to her.
She said that was a wakeup call for her: If you have pain, go to the hospital, don't wait
In the interview which was published on Wednesday, Amanza whispered to the camera I don't want to keep being so dramatic, but I almost died. I was two days away from death and that doesn't even seem like that could be a real thing.Recalling the beginning of her illness, Amanza mentioned that she noticed the signs just about a month after she finished Season 7 of Selling Sunset, when she woke up one morning and couldn't get out of bed because her back hurt so much but she brushed it off as signs of getting old and her back had just gone out.
But after a week of pain, she went to an emergency room, and staff told her she had a spasm and arthritis, and she was sent home with muscle relaxants. Yet even with the drugs she had, the pain only got worse and she had to go back to the hospital.A scan revealed that there was a mass on her back, and after she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai on June 2, doctors found bacteria in her blood, which had turned into vertebral osteomyelitis, an infection that was deteriorating the bones in her spine.
Amanza mentioned that the doctor explained to her that he had had only seen one other patient in 11 years with osteomyelitis in that location of her back. It was a really bizarre location, Smith noted.
Surgeons replaced her deteriorated vertebrae with a titanium cage in a six-hour surgery
Following her admittance into the hospital, she said she wasn't able to see her 12 and 13-year-old children for the month she was except for on Facetime.When I got discharged, I saw my son for the first time, he literally fell into my arms and started weeping.
After taking a minute to keep down the tears that almost escaped, Amanza added, he said, 'Mom, I was so scared you weren't going to come home from the hospital. I was so scared you weren't going to come home. I had never seen him cry like that.
She said, They don't have their dad so that fear of a parent leaving them is in there because that's what happened to their dad.Their father ex-NFL player Ralph Brown went missing in 2019.
She said she let her son know she wasn't going anywhere.Since leaving the hospital, the actress stated that there was no longer any infection in her blood and only a bit of deterioration left on a small part of her spine that may lead to more surgery down the road but not right now.
I've always sort of colored outside of the lines and I've lived this crazy life of — I have a lot of stories, she explained. For me — obviously everything happens for a reason — but there's been so much thinking and reflecting like I feel like this infection was a collection of all the trauma in my life over years and years and years and now it's doing this thing. And now it's out.She added, This time in my life is really amazing, referring to her kids growing up, the show's success and her work.
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