Amanza Smith is finally back home.
The 46-year-old Selling Sunset star recently took to her Instagram Story reveal that she has finally been discharged from the hospital after a 31-day stay for a blood infection that left her in “excruciating” pain.
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“31 days later and I’m out! Learning how to use my new antibiotic machine that will be permanently hooked to me 24/7 for the next couple of weeks. #onthemend,” Amanza wrote along with a photo of herself sitting on a couch as a masked nurse showed her how to use her new antibiotics machine.
For the past several weeks, Amanza has been documenting her stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Aneles as she battled ostemyelitis, which “is an infection in a bone. Infections can reach a bone by traveling through the bloodstream or spreading from nearby tissue. Infections can also begin in the bone itself if an injury exposes the bone to germs,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
On June 11, Amanza first revealed that she had already been in the hospital for several days due to “a month of excruciating pain.”
Amanza first attributed the pain to a “bulging” or “slipped” disc in her lower back, but doctors discovered that she had an “infection in my blood that had caused a great deal of infection to be spread to the bones of my spine.”
The illness required Amanza to undergo her first procedure to remove the infected parts of her of her spine. However, the surgery didn’t resolve the entire infection.
The antibiotics didn’t take care of the remaining infection, so on June 16, Amanza had a have second procedure.
“Part of my spine has completely deteriorated due to the infection, and I’ll be getting a new vertebrae and a couple of screws and rods in my spine to replace what has been eaten away from the bacteria,” Amanza shared at the time.
A few days later, Amanza revealed that the surgery was “absolutely perfection,” adding that doctors “were able to remove infection, not just [from] my bone but from the risky areas around it that could have potentially [affected] my organs, so I’m grateful.”
Throughout her entire hospitalization, Amanza has expressed her gratitude for the medical team that has been taking care of her, sharing that doctors were “right on top of everything to get the answers that we need to get me to where I need to be, which is better.”
We’re glad to hear that Amanza is finally back home and on the mend.