Current:Home > MySelling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection -InfinityFinance
Selling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection
View
Date:2025-04-19 08:13:31
Amanza Smith is finally getting answers after a painful health journey.
As the Selling Sunset star shared in a June 11 message to fans, she was admitted to Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles for an infection in her blood.
"Over a month ago and all of this started I thought that I had a bulging disk or a slipped disc or something wrong with my lower back that was regular," Amanza wrote on Instagram alongside footage of herself getting treatment. "I laid in pain in my house for several days. I cried. I took Tylenol. I went to urgent care."
After getting an MRI and CT scan, the 46-year-old was advised to go to the hospital.
"I came to Cedar Sinai last Friday thinking that I was going to get another scan on my back and then go home. Instead, I was admitted and they immediately started testing me for things in my blood," she continued. "Come to find out I had an infection in my blood that had caused, a great deal of infection to be spread to the bones of my spine and it's called osteomyelitis."
Amanza started antibiotics in an attempt to treat her blood infection and diminish the infection in her spine, which, as she noted, was first believed to be a tumor. "Because on an MRI," she wrote, "that's what it looks like."
"Everyone was very scared, including myself," she added. "Here I am day 10 and I'm making this message a bit quickly because I'm about to go into surgery to have portions of the infection removed from my spine that weren't getting any better..."
Later that same day, the mom of two returned to social media to give an update on her procedure.
"The surgery went well," she said in an Instagram Story video. "I'm back in my room, I've already gotten changed back in my comfy pajamas and I'm on the mend guys. So thank you for all the well-wishes and prayers."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (8692)
Related
- 'Malcolm in the Middle’ to return with new episodes featuring Frankie Muniz
- Commanders ban radio hosts from training camp over 'disparaging remarks' about female reporter
- 8 dogs going to Indiana K-9 facility die from extreme heat after driver’s AC unit fails
- In a first, the U.S. picks an Indigenous artist for a solo show at the Venice Biennale
- See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
- GM, BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes and Stellantis to build EV charging network
- LeBron James' son is released from hospital days after suffering a cardiac arrest
- Backup driver of an autonomous Uber pleads guilty to endangerment in pedestrian death
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- Kevin Spacey found not guilty on all charges in U.K. sexual assault trial
Ranking
- NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
- The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave
- Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse
- Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you?
- Realtor group picks top 10 housing hot spots for 2025: Did your city make the list?
- Four women whose lives ended in a drainage ditch outside Atlantic City
- 'Where's the Barbie section?': New movie boosts interest in buying, selling vintage dolls
- Watch this lonesome turtle weighed down by barnacles get help from a nearby jet-skier
Recommendation
DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
Richard E. Grant’s ‘A Pocketful of Happiness,’ Ann Patchett’s ‘Tom Lake’: 5 new books
New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands
'Sound of Freedom' misleads audiences about the horrible reality of human trafficking
From family road trips to travel woes: Americans are navigating skyrocketing holiday costs
Netherlands holds U.S. to a draw in thrilling rematch of 2019 Women's World Cup final
Alicia Navarro updates: Police question man after teen missing for years located
Women’s World Cup Guide: Results, schedule and how to watch