NeNe Leakes, former “Actual Housewives of Atlanta” star, shared on her Instagram tales on Monday that her son Brentt suffered from congestive coronary heart failure and a stroke two weeks in the past. Brentt Leakes is 23.
“This isn’t the way in which I needed it to return out,” Nene Leakes stated in her video. “We needed to have the ability to discuss it ourselves when Brentt was in a greater place … however I’d slightly the proper factor be on the market than one thing that’s not appropriate.”
The mom of two stated she didn’t need to go into particulars about how she discovered her son and the situation he was in, however stated that “it was very scary.” She stated her son is at present having bother talking.
Medical doctors are nonetheless operating checks, Nene Leakes stated, as a result of they don’t know precisely what triggered the stroke. One idea is that he could’ve unknowingly contracted COVID-19, because the virus has been related to coronary heart issues. A current report from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention discovered that coronary heart points are extra widespread after contracting the virus slightly than after getting the vaccine.
She stated her son doesn’t drink or do medicine, that are recognized components in rising the danger of coronary heart failure and stroke.
“They’ve run a variety of checks on him to see what might have presumably made this occur to him,” Nene Leakes stated. “We’re nonetheless attempting to determine it out, as a result of if we knew the trigger, clearly we might deal with the trigger.”
Nene Leakes additionally famous that she used to wrestle with blood clots in her lungs and docs wrestle to uncover the trigger, so there’s a likelihood her son could have inherited some kind of genetic coronary heart situation. She additionally shut down rumors that her son’s weight performed a component within the medical emergency, saying that the docs dominated out his weight as a doable trigger.
After a short pause after the primary set of movies, Leakes returned to her social media to speak concerning the one-year dying anniversary of Brentt’s father, Gregg Leakes, who died in September 2021 at age 66 after a three-year battle with colon most cancers. Leakes stated this previous September was significantly tough for her son.
“He was very near his dad, and he’s been tremendous stressed over it,” she stated. “I don’t even know if that has something to do with it in any respect. I actually ask the docs questions like that, they usually appear to assume that’s not the case with Brentt.”
The TV character requested her Instagram followers to maintain her household of their prayers as they navigate her son’s well being. She stated she FaceTimed him on Monday morning, and he was “in good spirits” and displaying enchancment, regardless of his difficulties talking.
“We’re simply shocked,” she stated. “Simply shocked. However I thank all of you guys to your prayers.”
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