…had a pulmonary embolism. She revealed that the clot in her lung had been a life-threatening condition. “I was on my death bed at one point – quite literally. I’ve had a serious illness but at first I didn’t appreciate that,” she said.
One of the more recently publicized blood clots was when she started to have trouble breathing while recovering from her C-section in 2017. She thought she was having another blood clot, and told the medical staff she needed a CT scan and treatment for blood clots. Her doctors initially did not honor her request, and instead performed an ultrasound on her legs, Williams told Vogue. But eventually, they did give her a CT scan, which indeed showed that she had several blood clots in her lungs, known as pulmonary embolisms, according to Vogue.
Williams was put on a life-saving blood-thinner medication, but this had the side effect of preventing her surgical C-section wound from healing properly. Her surgical wound reopened, and doctors performed another surgery in which they found a hematoma, or a mass of clotted blood, in her abdomen. She needed another operation to insert a filter into a major vein to prevent more clots, Vogue said.
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