Selling Sunset‘s Amanza Smith is opening up about a recent hospitalization that led to a scary discovery, a spine surgery, and a plan moving forward to help her manage the pain she’s been experiencing for weeks amid a frightening turn of events that started as back pain.
Fans of the Netflix reality series Selling Sunset know that Smith has been dealing with health issues for some time now, so when she continued experiencing pain that medication wouldn’t help, it goes without saying that the situation was unnerving. Smith reveals in an emotional Instagram post that she felt pain for days before trying to figure out what was happening, and it wasn’t until things persisted for a month that she truly began to find out what was going on.
She explains that after receiving an MRI and CT scan, she was told she needed to go to Ceder Sinai, where she could be helped further; she thought things would be quick and easy, but what happened next was anything but.
“I got an MRI and a CT scan and then was told that I need to go to Cedar Sinai. 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. 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 …the good thing about all of this I’m in the best hospital and quite possibly the world and every doctor and every nurse has been right on top of everything to get the answers that we need to get me to where I need to be, which is better. they started me on antibiotics to treat the infection in my blood to hopefully diminish the infection in my spine that what they first thought was a tumor because on an MRI. That’s what it looks like. But the bad kind not the kind that’s just infection. Everyone was very scared, including myself.”
The blood infection Smith had became an infection of the bones in her spine called osteomyelitis. She says the entire thing is undoubtedly scary but that she feels comfortable knowing she’s in the best hospital and everyone working on her case has been on top of their game in recognizing her symptoms and getting a diagnosis and the proper medicine administered quickly.
Smith also shared that she’d soon be going into surgery to help remove some of the infection that the antibiotics couldn’t touch, and a story shared on her page a few hours later showed that she made it out of surgery and will hopefully soon be in far less pain. Several of Smith’s friends and co-stars shared messages of support and love for her on her journey to a hopefully wonderfully speedy recovery.
We’re sending our best wishes to Smith as she continues to heal from the infection.
