A few months ago, Hailey Beiber got very sick and had an event that she thought was a stroke. She said that it happened when she was at breakfast with superstar hubby Justin Beiber and she said that it felt like a weird sensation went down her left arm to her fingertips, a sensation that was so foriegn to her that she couldn’t actually figure out what was going on.
She said that she had 30 seconds of facial drooping and worried for a few minutes that she was going to have permanent damage because she was robbed of the power of speech for just a little bit, a possibility that is downright terrifying. She said that when they asked her questions she knew the answers but couldn’t manage to form the words.
Hailey Beiber takes to youtube to share her story
She did say that at one point the ambulance driver aged her up a few years. They were on their way to the hospital and the driver was calling the emergency room to let them know that they were on their way, that the driver said that “we have a 30 year old female” woops!
Hailey is only 25 years old, “I had to make sure they weren’t going to age me 5 years for no reason.” she joked. She said that fear and anxiety definitely made the speech problems worse, but it seemed that the worst of the event had subsided once they got to the hospital and she wasn’t having any stroke symptoms anymore.
However she did suffer a TIA, whichis a small blood clot to her brain. A TIA or a Transient Ischemic Attack is sort of like having a mini stroke and her scans did indicate that she went without oxygen to her brain for a certain amount of time. (Again, terrifying!)
She said they ran a battery of tests, including one called a “bubble echo” in which they inject saline into your blood stream to see if there are any bubbles escaping from a certain part of your heart called a PFO or a Patent Foramen Ovale and normally it is something that closes on its own in young children shortly after birth, its a flap of skin between the right and left ventricles of the heart. They determined she did not have one of those… at least at first.
They also determined that because she was on birth control and because she had recently had COVID and she had just gotten back from a long flight that it was the perfect storm for her to have a blood clot go to her brain. When they did more in-depth testing at UCLA they determined that she actually had a grade 5 PFO, the highest grade PFO you can have and that that also contributed to the blood clot going to her brain.
She said that she felt fortunate to have the health care and resources that she did to be able to take care of her health during this time and realized that there are many that do not. We do hope that the rest of Hailey’s recovery is speedy. Stay tuned!!!