The Singer and reality star, Toni Braxton revealed she experienced a traumatic health scare. Speaking to People Magazine, the “Un-Break My Heart” hitmaker shared that her “left main coronary artery was 80% blocked,” the Grammy Award winner continued “The doctors told me I could’ve had a massive heart attack, I would not have survived.”
Braxton revealed that she underwent an invasive emergency heart procedure last September. She went on to share that she has been hospitalized “more times than I care to admit.” The 55-year-old was diagnosed with SLE in 2008.
She shared that as of last year she “kept putting off thinking” and slipped up.
“I kept putting it off thinking, ‘Oh, I’m fine. I’ll be okay.’ But my doctor was persistent and I went to get tested in the last week of September. I did a specialized test and they looked at my heart and saw some abnormalities,” Braxton tells PEOPLE. “I found out that I needed a coronary stent. My left main coronary artery was 80% blocked. The doctors told me I could’ve had a massive heart attack, I would not have survived.”
“It was a traumatic moment for me. I was in shock,” she recalls. “I remember that day because my chest was aching often, just hurting. And I thought I was just sad because unfortunately my sister [Traci Braxton] had just passed and I thought, ‘Wow, I’m really aching in my heart for my sister.’ And come to find out, of course I was sad about my sister, but I also had underlying health issues. It was my body talking to me, telling me something’s not quite right.”
Two days after her screening she had an emergency heart surgery which was a success. Braxton she light hearted said she will not “put off test”
“I look at it like it was a blessing in disguise for me because now, putting off tests? Oh no, I will not put off tests,If all I have to do for my lupus and my kidney health is pee in a cup, I can pee in a cup. How many times do you need me to pee? If all I gotta do is get my arm pricked for some blood? Oh yes, I can do that. How many vials do you need?”
Main Image: Toni Braxton| Invision
The post Toni Braxton Shares Her Traumatic Health Scare and Emergency Heart Surgery appeared first on Entertainment SA - South African Entertainment News, Celebrity and Lifestyle Online Magazine & Entertainment.
Post a Comment