Current:Home > reviewsSelling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection -Visionary Wealth Guides
Selling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection
View
Date:2025-04-18 01:07:30
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! (986)
Related
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- Get Whiter Teeth in 6 Minutes and Save 58% On This Supersmile Product Bundle
- NAACP Image Awards 2023 Red Carpet Fashion: See Every Look as the Stars Arrive
- The Drunk Elephant D-Bronzi Drops Are Sunshine in a Bottle: Here's Where You Can Get the Sold Out Product
- 2 killed, 3 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston
- Iran announces first arrests over mysterious poisonings of hundreds of schoolgirls
- Hats off to an illuminating new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore
- These were the most frequently performed plays and musicals in high schools this year
- Jamie Foxx reps say actor was hit in face by a glass at birthday dinner, needed stitches
- In 'American Born Chinese,' a beloved graphic novel gets Disney-fied
Ranking
- Skins Game to make return to Thanksgiving week with a modern look
- Half of world on track to be overweight or obese by 2035, report says
- Brendan Fraser Rides the Wave to Success With Big 2023 SAG Awards Win
- Why Ke Huy Quan’s 2023 SAG Awards Speech Inspired Everyone Everywhere All at Once
- 'Survivor' 47 finale, part one recap: 2 players were sent home. Who's left in the game?
- In the horror spoof 'The Blackening,' it's survival of the Blackest
- This Parent Trap Reunion At the 2023 SAG Awards Will Have You Feeling Nostalgic
- Bipartisan group of senators unveil bill targeting TikTok, other foreign tech companies
Recommendation
This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
Remains of baby found in U.K. following couple's arrest
The Academy of American Poets names its first Latino head
Kate Spade 24-Hour Flash Deal: Get This $300 Tote Bag for Just $69
Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
Indonesia landslide leaves dozens missing, at least 11 dead
Vanity Fair's Radhika Jones talks Rupert Murdoch and Little House on the Prairie
Zendaya's 2023 SAG Awards Look Has Us Feeling Rosy