OHMYGOSSIP — Brooke Shields suffered a staph infection after undergoing two surgeries to repair her broken femur.
The 55-year-old actress broke her right femur after she fell off a balance board whilst at a gym in New York in January, and has revealed she initially underwent two separate surgeries to try and mend the broken bones.
Detailing the horror fall, she said: “It felt like it was all in slow motion. And then I just started screaming. Sounds came out that I’ve never heard before.”
Brooke explained she was “afraid [she] was paralysed” at first but kept telling doctors she could still feel her toes.
The actress then had an operation to insert two metal rods, “one from the top of my hip down, and another across into the hip socket,” but after the broken portion of her right femur popped out, she immediately underwent a second surgery to add five rods and a metal plate to anchor it all in place.
And after almost three weeks in hospital Brooke was finally sent home, where she developed a very serious staph infection which required her to return for emergency surgery on the IV site where she’d had three blood transfusions.
She explained: “At first they feared it might be MRSA [a type of bacteria resistant to antibiotics]. Thank God it wasn’t. If it had been, my doctor said it would have been a race against time. That’s how you can become septic. It seemed unthinkable.”
The ‘Pretty Baby’ star is now having to re-learn how to walk again, and has said she feels “helpless” at times.
She added: “For the first time in my entire life, I thought, ‘I can’t power through this.’ I can’t even stand on my leg or go up a step. I need to relearn how to even walk. The feeling of helplessness is shocking.”
But the actress is determined to pull through.
Speaking to People magazine, she said: “If anything, I’m a fighter.
“I’m the only one that’s going to be able to get through this. My career has actually been like that as well. One door gets slammed in my face and I search for another. It’s not unlike how I felt when I wrote about postpartum depression in 2005. This is my journey, and if it took me breaking the largest bone in my body, then recovery is something I want to share. We have to believe in ourselves and encourage one another. There’s no other way to get through life, period.”

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