While YouTuber iJustine (real name: Justine Ezarik) is one of social media’s most popular personalities, her most recent headlines are not about her tech-savvy posts, but the blood clot that nearly killed her.“I went from (being) perfectly fine to almost (dying) in the course of a few hours,” the tech guru, 38, told Today in an interview published on Friday, August 26.The social media star first noticed symptoms of a blood clot in late March, telling Today that she “couldn’t even flex my arm because my bicep was so massive that it looked like I was so shredded from the gym — but it was just swollen,” she recalled. “I went to (an emergency clinic) and a nurse looked at it.
She’s like, ‘We’re not equipped to handle that.’”At the second hospital she went to, Ezarik was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis, which “occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms in one or more of the deep veins in the body,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
In Ezarik’s case, the clot was in her arm.She was treated by “injecting the medication directly to the clot. We had to do it twice,” the YouTube personality recalled of the medical procedure, which is known as a thrombectomy.“I was basically bedridden.
I couldn’t move either of my arms because one had the catheter (and) the other had so many needles,” Ezarik told Today. “My sister was brushing my teeth and feeding me.
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