Perez Hilton revealed that taking flu remedy on an empty abdomen landed him in the hospital for 21 days.
“My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days. It was the worst and best thing that’s ever happened to me,” he prefaced in a YouTube video Monday, the place he described the “crazy saga.”
“Before I was hospitalized I had the flu. I had the flu for about a week, he explained insisting that he is “not a partier” or somebody that “abuses things.”
“I took the medication for the flu for a week. However — a big but — I didn’t take any of my medication with food. I never have and you’re supposed to take all of this medication with food.”
Because of this, the gossip blogger, 47, “developed an ulcer and then a perforation and then sepsis.”
“People die of sepsis,” he tearfully continued. “The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain. I was like ‘This is weird, but it’ll go away.’”
But by the subsequent morning Hilton — born Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. — “couldn’t walk” and needed to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.
“I ended up being there for 21 days. I felt like I knew everybody by the time I left,” he mentioned.
“The first few days were a lot of pain and constant tests, X-rays, CT scans, ultrasounds, because they couldn’t find where the perforation was. So that was scary.”
After 5 days, he had laparoscopic surgical procedure to “flip around all of [his] organs” looking for the perforation, adopted by one other main process as a result of his organs have been nonetheless contaminated.
“They inserted I don’t know what inside of me and drained a ton more infection out of me and then the sepsis just kept working and my body kept falling apart. My heart got out of control, they had to put me on heart medications. And then, I developed another infection in the hospital.”
Hilton mentioned that over the 2 weeks in the hospital he might solely eat by way of a feeding tube.
“Isn’t that crazy? ‘Cause I love food,” he joked. “Everything was through IV.”
Once he was in a position to begin consuming commonly once more, it was a “whole other process” as a result of it may be “hard on the body” in addition to “humiliating” as a result of he was having “a lot of accidents.”
“I felt so humiliated and sad and bad to have to keep calling [the nurse] because I kept having accidents in the bed. But she was so kind and patient,” he praised. “It was just such a slow process. Two weeks of just sickness and then another week of getting better before I was released.”
“Now that I am home, I am not 100 percent,” he famous, exhibiting a decide line into his arm. “It’s like a scary IV with two lines, and one goes to my heart.”
Hilton additionally shared that he’s utilizing this well being scare as a studying lesson and goes to decelerate his way of life and be extra current with his three children.
“I’m going to have dinner with my kids and my mom every night from now on,” he pledged, earlier than thanking his complete household for supporting him by way of this tough time.
On Saturday, the media persona took to Instagram to share movies and pictures of himself sporting an oxygen masks whereas in a hospital mattress at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas.
Despite the regarding uploads, he made certain to notice he “received the best care” from the medical workers and informed his followers that he would “soon” clarify what was mistaken.
