Perez Hilton is back on his feet and “slowly” recovering following a 21-day hospital stay and recent emergency surgery.
“After my 21 day hospitalization with severe sepsis, just a few days ago I had to be admitted again with a deep vein thrombosis on my right leg,” Hilton, 48, explained via Instagram on Tuesday, April 7. (A deep vein thrombosis, per the Mayo Clinic, is a serious condition in which a blood clot forms in the deep vein of the lower leg or thigh.)
The so-called “original influencer” revealed that on Friday, April 3, his cardiovascular surgeon “removed the most MASSIVE, fully occluded blood clot — it went from my groin to just below my calf.”
Hours after the thrombectomy, Hilton recalled his doctor visiting him while in recovery and asking him to walk because he was “worried about blood coagulating and us finding ourselves with the same problem.”
“So I walked, and it was the most excruciating pain of my life,” Hilton confessed. “I was discharged Saturday and had to cancel the beautiful Easter Sunday I had planned, because I was hurting that badly.”
Despite canceling his Sunday, April 5, festivities, Hilton told his followers he is finally feeling better.
“Thank GOD that I can finally walk again — slowly. And, though the pain is still very pronounced, I can tolerate it — and do this all without meds,” he wrote. “Amen!! Every day will get easier and I will get stronger!!! And so it shall be!”
Hilton’s road to recovery has been a long and scary ordeal, starting in March when he was hospitalized following a bout with the flu. Hilton explained in a March 23 Instagram video that after not taking any of his flu medication with food he developed an ulcer, a perforation and sepsis — a serious infection that can result in organ failure.
“The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain. I was like, ‘This is weird, but it will go away.’ The next morning, I couldn’t walk,” he recalled. “I had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.”
Five days into his 21-day stay at the hospital, Hilton revealed he underwent laparoscopic surgery.
“[A] surgery where they don’t cut you up, but they miraculously make these incisions … to literally flip around all of my organs,” he explained. “Trying to find the perforation first, then after flipping around all of my organs, washing me out ‘cause I had so much infection in there. So much infection.”
Hilton said his body “kept falling apart” while he was in the hospital, noting that his lungs had to be drained and he had “another major procedure” to try and get the infection out of his system.
After overcoming sepsis and being discharged from the hospital, Hilton told his followers on Thursday, April 2, that he was rushed back to the emergency room when he experienced soreness and pain in one of his legs.
“I have to have emergency surgery,” he shared via Instagram at the time, noting that an ultrasound confirmed he had a blood clot. “If that blood clot had gone to my lungs or my heart, it could have been real bad.”
Luckily, Hilton said the doctors caught it early and he was hopeful he would be back to himself soon.
He shared a video of himself walking at home with a walker on Tuesday, to confirm he is in fact feeling better. “I can finally walk again!!!” he captioned the video, which concluded with Hilton clapping for the camera.
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