Hailey Baldwin reveals she had procedure to close hole in heart after she was hospitalised for stroke
Hailey Baldwin has opened up about her recent health scare, with the model speaking candidly about her hospitalisation last month.
In a video posted to her YouTube channel on Wednesday, which she titled: “Telling my story,” the 25 year old told her fans and followers that she wanted to make the video to “tell the story in my own words of where I’ve been at healthwise in the last month, and kind of what I’ve gone through, and what the story is”.
Baldwin, who is married to singer Justin Bieber, then recalled the “very scary incident” on 10 March, which saw her hospitalised after suffering “stroke-like symptoms” while having breakfast with her husband.
According to Baldwin, while the couple was having breakfast, she felt a “weird sensation” travel down her arm to her fingertips, with the model recalling that it made her fingertips feel “numb and weird”.
Baldwin then recalled how, when Bieber had asked whether she was okay, she wasn’t able to respond, as she noted that she “couldn’t speak” and the right side of her face had begun drooping.
“I couldn’t get a sentence out … I couldn’t get the words out,” she said, adding that she immediately assumed that she was having a stroke.
At that point, Bieber asked for someone to call 911, while Baldwin noted that they were also in the presence of a medic, who began to ask her questions and test her arms.
“Definitely the scariest moment of my life. I had so many things running through my head,” Baldwin said. “The number one thing being I’m having a stroke, I’m really scared, I don’t know what’s going on.”
According to Baldwin, her facial drooping lasted for 30 seconds and she was able to walk, but her ability to speak continued to be impacted. The model also said that her anxiety over the health scare worsened her speech capabilities.
“But by the time I got to the emergency room, I was pretty much back to normal. Could talk, wasn’t having any issues with my face or my arm,” Baldwin recalled, adding that she scored a zero on the stroke checklist in the emergency room as she was no longer having any symptoms.
After running tests, Baldwin said her doctors learned that she had suffered a TIA – a Transient Ischemic Attack, which is often called a mini-stroke, as a result of a blood clot in her brain.
Baldwin then noted that her body was able to resolve the issue on its own, and that she didn’t have any other issues during her time in the hospital, but that her scans did show she had a “lack of oxygen” to a “certain part of [her] brain”.
After she was discharged without an answer or conclusion regarding the cause of the blood clot, Baldwin said she went to see additional doctors.
According to Baldwin, doctors ultimately concluded that the blood clot may have been caused by three contributing factors: her birth control medication, Covid, and a recent long flight, as she noted that she had travelled “from Paris and back in a really short amount of time”.
“So basically, all of the doctors came to the conclusion that it was a perfect storm,” she said, adding that doctors later determined she had a PFO, a small opening in her heart.
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