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Jason Oppenheim;Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
“It’s really hard to get a photo when you can’t move your back,” Smith says in a video posted on Fitzgerald’sInstagram Story, “but Mary came to see me, and Austin.” Fitzgerald wrote, “Everyone please send my bestie all the healing vibes” over the video.
Amanza Smith
On Sunday, Smith shared anInstagram Reelthat showed various clips of her crying from the pain she was experiencing, getting blood drawn, and photos of her scans. She also explained more about the infection in the caption.
“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,” she wrote. “I laid in pain in my house for several days. I cried. I took Tylenol. I went to urgent care.”
She continued: “I didn’t know what it was, but after over a month of excruciating pain I finally started to get some answers.”
The luxury realtor explained that she had to get an MRI and CT scan before being told she needed 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,” she revealed. “Instead, I was admitted and they immediately started testing me for things in my blood.”
“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,” Smith shared. The Netflix star added that she has to take antibiotics for the blood infection.
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During season 6 ofSelling Sunset,Smith opened up to Fitzgeraldabout another health scare she was facing.
She revealed that she went to the doctor for a checkup and was advised to get an ultrasound done. “When they did the ultrasound,” she said in episode 10, “my uterus on the screen looked… It doesn’t look good.”
Beginning to get emotional, she added, “There’s a wide array of things that it could be, and then the one thing that we pray and hope that it’s not.” Fitzgerald asks, “Cancer?” to which Smith nodded with tears in her eyes.
In an Instagram post following the season premiere in May, Smithconfirmed that she was cancer-freeafter a biopsy was benign.
source: people.com
