Reggie Bird was rushed to hospital on Monday suffering complications from a knee surgery that she underwent last week.
The two-time Big Brother winner, 50, vlogged her day in the emergency department at Gold Coast Hospital on Instagram.
‘It’s been six days after the surgery,’ she said.
‘Not feeling real crash hot, so I’ve rung the hospital to let them know that my ankle and foot is still really swollen since I’ve had the operation and my calf is hurting.’
Reggie’s surgeon had to shave 40 per cent of the cartilage off from one side of her kneecap to replace what she had lost on the other side.
‘The surgeon also asked if I had any falls or trauma and I said yes I had an old man on a big mobility scooter mow me down in Woolworths about a year and a half ago… So it’s most likely came from that,’ she explained in the caption of a pre-surgery update.
Reggie Bird was rushed to hospital on Monday suffering complications from a knee surgery that she underwent last week
The two time Big Brother winner, 50, vlogged her day in the emergency department at Gold Coast Hospital on Instagram, where she had blood tests, X-rays, and an ultrasound on her knee
‘I spent today in emergency,’ Reggie continued in her vlog posted on Tuesday.
‘Think I’ve got a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in my leg and it’s the same vein that I’ve had a DVT in before.
‘So they’ve told me I’ve got to come into emergency. Oh my god. It never ends. Fingers crossed everything is going to be okay.’
In her video, Reggie showed the swollen state of her leg underneath her bandages, which had to be cut off on Monday for assessment.
Deep vein thrombosis a condition where a blood clot forms in a deep vein, most commonly in the legs, potentially leading to a life-threatening pulmonary embolism if the clot dislodges and travels to the lungs.
Reggie spent the entire day in the emergency department, where she underwent blood tests and X-rays, and then an ultra-sound to diagnosis her leg.
‘Feel like s***,’ she said.
‘They’ve just found another DVT in my leg which sucks. So I’m just waiting to get my leg re-bandaged. Feels like it’s going to fall off.’
Reggie, who is legally blind, has deep vein thombrosis in her knee resulting from her operation
Reggie underwent a surgery on her knee six days ago
The reality TV star explained she had a DVT in the same leg four or five years ago and said her knee operation had caused this new blood clot in her vein.
‘The clot goes from ankle just to the bottom of my knee cap,’ she continued in her video, which was filmed at Gold Coast Hospital.
‘The [doctors] said they were lucky that I took myself in there today. If it had of gone any higher than I would have been in trouble.’
She sighed deeply.
‘So yeah, it doesn’t end. I’m tired. Just always something. It never ever ever stops with me.
‘I’ve got to go on blood thinners for six months and rest up. That was my day. Ready for bed, I’m buggered.’
Reggie, who recently starred on I’m A Celebrity! Get Me Outta Here, is legally blind.
She suffers from both retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment, and stage two Usher Syndrome, which causes deafness and hearing loss.
Currently, Reggie describes her vision as like ‘looking through a straw’, and doctors have told her that one day soon, she might wake up and not be able to see anything at all.
She brought her co-star and camp mate Matty ‘J’ Johnson to tears when he asked what she will miss seeing the most.
‘Seeing the kids,’ Reggie told him.
Reggie and her second husband, Dave Sorenson, have two children, an 18-year-old daughter, Mia, and their 15-year-old son, Lucas.
She paused, allowing both Matty and herself, to sit with that heavy truth. ‘Yeah, just, I’ll miss the kids.’
The Bachelor star’s eyes welled up with tears for her.
‘I never know when I’ll have my last day when I can see again,’ she told him.
‘That day is going to come, and that is why I am so blessed to be here, to enjoy and see all of this stuff and chuck it in the memory bank, to make the most of it.’
Matty, already on the verge of tears, said ‘that makes me want to cry.’
Reggie quickly apologised, which Matty waived off, as he wrapped her up in a bear hug in the touching on-screen moment.
