Current:Home > ScamsSelling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection -FutureWise Finance
Selling Sunset's Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection
View
Date:2025-04-17 11:15:50
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! (55)
Related
- Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked, Pentagon says
- Former candidate for Maryland governor fined over campaign material
- Federal officials send resources to Mississippi capital to curb gun violence
- One Tech Tip: How to use apps to track and photograph the total solar eclipse
- The Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding
- Should you itemize or take a standard deduction on your tax return? Here’s what to know
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Gone Fishing
- Makeup You Can Sleep in That Actually Improves Your Skin? Yes, That’s a Thing and It’s 45% Off
- Small twin
- Zoe Saldaña and Husband Marco Perego Use This Code Word for Sex at Home
Ranking
- Kylie Jenner Shows Off Sweet Notes From Nieces Dream Kardashian & Chicago West
- Body found on Lake Ontario shore in 1992 identified as man who went over Niagara Falls, drifted over 140 miles
- Video shows Savannah Graziano shot by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies
- NIT schedule today: Everything to know about men's championship on April 4
- What to watch: O Jolie night
- Cicada-geddon insect invasion will be biggest bug emergence in centuries
- Here’s Everything You Need To Build Your Dream Spring Capsule Wardrobe, According to a Shopping Editor
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Gone Fishing
Recommendation
Toyota to invest $922 million to build a new paint facility at its Kentucky complex
Can the eclipse impact your astrological sign? An astrologer weighs in
Suits’ Wendell Pierce Shares This Advice for the Cast of Upcoming Spinoff
Maine power outage map: Spring snowstorm leaves over 200,000 homes, businesses without power
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Don't touch the alien-like creatures: What to know about the caterpillars all over Florida
Owner of Baffert-trained Muth sues Churchill Downs seeking to allow horse to run in Kentucky Derby
As Biden Pushes For Clean Factories, a New ‘How-To’ Guide Offers a Path Forward