Popular gossip blogger Perez Hilton is lucky to be alive after spending more than 21 days in the hospital. Taking flu medication on empty stomach apparently caused his condition.
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"My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days. It was the worst and best thing that's ever happened to me," he said in a YouTube video. "Before I was hospitalized, I had the flu. I had the flu for about a week. 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."
Apparently, the gossip blogger "developed an ulcer and then a perforation and then sepsis."
He developed severe pain in his stomach. By the next day, the gossip blogger couldn't walk and had to call an ambulance.
"I ended up being there for 21 days. I felt like I knew everybody by the time I left," he said. "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."
Gossip Blogger Hospitalized
Hilton says he had to have several major procedures due to the infection. At one point, the gossip blogger had issues with his heart.
"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," he said.
He was eating through a feeding tube through this time.
"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."
He's now back at home but still recovering.
"Now that I am home, I am not 100 percent," he said. "It's like a scary IV with two lines, and one goes to my heart."
