'Such a life-changing event': Hailey Bieber reveals challenges she faced on first anniversary of ministroke and PFO diagnosis
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Hailey Bieber, 26, recently took to social media to mark the “1 year” anniversary of her “mini stroke” that altered her life considerably. The Baldwin family daughter, who suffered from Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) and had to be hospitalized last year, used her social media platform to “share" information about the same.
“Can’t believe it’s been 1 year since I suffered a mini stroke that led to my PFO [patent foramen ovale] diagnosis,” Bieber reminisced on her Instagram Stories on Friday, March 10.
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The Rhode Beauty founder further wrote, “Given that it’s the 1 year mark from such a life changing event, I wanted to share all the information I’ve learned about PFO and share resources to donate.” Along with the Instagram Story, the wife of Justin Bieber also attached a Youtube video of herself from April 28, 2022, where she could be found narrating her story.
Hailey’s PFO journey
Early in 2022, Hailey was hospitalized following stroke-like symptoms and had to undergo heart surgery. In the 12-minute follow-up video that Hailey posted, she shared about the health scare that she received last year. After having a very “scary incident” as she was having breakfast with her famous husband, which was similar to a stroke, she was taken to a hospital in the Palm Springs area. She also shared how she could not speak at that time.
She then continued to narrate, how upon her arrival in the hospital and after a scan, the doctor found out that she “suffered a small blood clot“ to her brain which they “labeled and categorized as TIA (transient ischemic attack).
After narrating her experiences with the testing, she also talked in detail about the relationship between “birth control” and “migraine”, and how it ties into her condition. She then said that the doctors at UCLA found out that she had “grade 5 PFO, which is the highest grade”.
Hailey then said, “I had a blood clot that traveled into my heart … and it traveled to my brain and that is why I suffered a TIA,” following which she had a procedure done called ‘PFO closure’. She later added that it went “very smoothly” and she was “recovering really well”.
PFO and PTSD
On the “Run-Through with Vogue” podcast of January 5, 2023, the young survivor wrote, “I struggled with a lot of anxiety after. I struggled with a little bit of PTSD of just, like, the fear of maybe it was gonna happen again.”
“It was just a feeling that I was, like, I never want to experience that ever again. It was so terrifying, so jarring, so discombobulating in every single way that you could imagine,” she shares.
Having a positive outlook, she concluded, “I look back at it and it could’ve been so much worse,” before adding “So many worse things could have happened in that moment.”