Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith Hospitalized for Blood Infection: ‘Everyone Was Very Scared’

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On the mend. Amanza Smith revealed that she’s been in the hospital for several days receiving treatment for a blood infection.The Selling Sunset star, 46, broke the news to her Instagram followers on Sunday, June 11, sharing a video montage set to “Titanium” by David Guetta and Sia.

The Netflix personality explained that her health issues began a month ago when she started experiencing “excruciating pain” in her lower back.

She initially believed she had a slipped disc, but after an MRI and a CT scan, doctors informed her that she should go to the hospital for further testing.The real estate pro went to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles earlier this month and was immediately admitted to the hospital. “Come to find out I had an infection in my blood that had caused a great deal of infection to be spread to the bones of my spine and it’s called osteomyelitis,” Smith explained in her Instagram post. “The good thing about all of this I’m in the best hospital and quite possibly the world and every doctor and every nurse has been right on top of everything to get the answers that we need to get me to where I need to be, which is better.”The Indiana native went on to say that doctors initially worried she had a tumor because the infection appeared that way on her MRI. “Everyone was very scared, including myself,” she wrote, noting that she’s been taking antibiotics to treat the infection. “Here I am day 10 and I’m making this message a bit quickly because I’m about to go into surgery to have portions of the infection removed from my spine that weren’t getting any better. … I’m still in pain, but I am hopeful that with the surgery my back pain will diminish.”In her video, Smith included screenshots of a missed call from