Current:Home > MarketsTerry Dubrow Speaks Out About Near-Death Blood Clot Scare and Signs You Should Look Out for-Angel Dreamer Wealth Society D1 Reviews & Insights
Terry Dubrow Speaks Out About Near-Death Blood Clot Scare and Signs You Should Look Out for
View Date:2024-12-23 18:22:25
Terry Dubrow is stressing the dangers of blood clots following a recent near-death medical emergency.
The Botched star went from doctor to patient last week after he began temporarily slurring his words during a dinner with wife Heather Dubrow and their 19-year-old son Nicholas.
"My perception was this was no big deal," Terry exclusively told E! News, "give me a second."
After initially refusing to go to the hospital, The Real Housewives of Orange County star convinced her husband to get checked out—and it ended up saving his life. During testing, doctors discovered that a blood clot had passed through a hole in his heart (known as a patent foramen ovale or PFO) and traveled to his brain, causing a transient ischemic attack (or TIA), which causes stroke-like symptoms.
"Had I gone home, gone to sleep, continued to have little teeny blood clots come from my lower extremities from all the recent flying we'd been doing, I would have had many more clots," Terry noted. "If she wasn't insistent and persistent and I got on a plane or I went home that night—dead. Heather Dubrow saved my life, no question about it."
Now, Terry is speaking out to spread awareness in the hopes others won't ignore warning signs.
"It's important to understand that if you're having a stroke, you have only five hours to dissolve that clot," the 64-year-old explained. "You need to be in an emergency room and have a clot-dissolver, otherwise your brain is gonna die and you're gonna die. The mortality rate of a real stroke is 60 percent."
Terry isn't the first celebrity to experience a PFO or TIA health scare. Last year, Hailey Bieber suffered a transient stroke before undergoing a PFO procedure.
"The difference between me and Hailey Bieber is the right side of her face was paralyzed and she had numbness and tingling, so she had more physical symptoms," Terry noted. "It was so obvious. Justin Bieber—who's not a neuroscientist, let's be honest—knew she was having a stroke."
But aside from the obvious symptoms like speech-slurring or facial paralysis, the reality star doesn't want everyone to worry if they have PFO.
"We don't want to freak people out and tell them they all need to have an echocardiogram to see if they have PFO," Terry stated, "but they need to understand the number one cause of death in this country and in most industrialized countries is cardiovascular disease and the number one cause of death in that group is stroke."
As for what you can do to prevent a similar health scare? "If you have a heart murmur, figure out if you have PFO," he added. "If you're going to go on a long trip, wear compression socks. Get up on the plane every hour and walk around in the cabin. We are constantly being showered by little blood clots, but if you have PFO and a little blood clot gets to your brain, it is no joke."
Watch a brand-new episode of Botched tonight at 10 p.m.
Watch a new episode of Botched Thursdays at 10 p.m., only on E!.veryGood! (4153)
Related
- John Krasinski Reveals Wife Emily Blunt's Hilarious Response to His Sexiest Man Alive Title
- What Iran’s attack against Israel could look like with the support of regional allies
- Flavor Flav and the lost art of the hype man: Where are hip-hop's supporting actors?
- South Carolina school apologizes for employees' Border Patrol shirts at 'cantina' event
- Isiah Pacheco injury updates: When will Chiefs RB return?
- 2024 Olympics: Rower Justin Best Proposes to Girlfriend With 2,738 Yellow Roses in Nod to Snapchat Streak
- Olympic Swimmer Luana Alonso Denies Being Removed From Village for “Inappropriate” Behavior
- Olympics surfing winners today: Who won medals Monday in the 2024 Paris Games in Tahiti?
- The Stanley x LoveShackFancy Collaboration That Sold Out in Minutes Is Back for Part 2—Don’t Miss Out!
- Caroline Marks wins gold for US in surfing final nail-biter
Ranking
- The Cowboys, claiming to be 'all in' prior to Dak Prescott's injury, are in a rare spot: Irrelevance
- South Carolina school apologizes for employees' Border Patrol shirts at 'cantina' event
- US wrestler Amit Elor has become 'young GOAT' of her sport, through tragedy and loss
- Noah Lyles cruises to easy win in opening round of 200
- Trump ally Steve Bannon blasts ‘lawfare’ as he faces New York trial after federal prison stint
- The Small Business Administration expands clean energy loan program
- Machine Gun Kelly Shares He's One Year Sober After Going to Rehab
- Republican congressman who voted to impeach Trump fights to survive Washington primary
Recommendation
-
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to kick off fundraising effort for Ohio women’s suffrage monument
-
'Billions' and 'David Makes Man' actor Akili McDowell, 21, charged with murder
-
Serena Williams Calls Out Parisian Restaurant for Denying Her and Her Kids Access
-
Gabby Thomas leads trio of Americans advancing to 200 track final at Paris Olympics
-
MLS playoff teams set: Road to MLS Cup continues with conference semifinals
-
Brooke Shields to auction Calvin Klein jeans from controversial ad
-
3rd set of remains with bullet wounds found with possible ties to 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
-
Body believed to be Glacier National Park drowning victim recovered from Avalanche Creek