Here’s all you need to know about Lexi Reed Health Update after being placed on a Ventilator
- Lexi Reed is a social media influencer
- She got spotlighted after sharing her 141 kg (312 pounds) weight loss journey in 2016
- Recently, she was hospitalized after suffering from a serious disorder
- Reed had to be admitted to a ventilator in a medically induced coma. At present, she even couldn’t walk properly and has to take help from a wheelchair
The 31-year-old Lexi Reed from Indiana was hospitalized last month after suffering from a serious disorder.
Lexi was unable to walk and had to be admitted to a ventilator in a medically induced coma. Her husband Danny Reed shared back in February that her kidney and liver were failing via Lexi’s IG handles.
He shared a picture of Lexi and gave an update on Reed’s health condition. He wrote in a caption,
“Sorry for the late update but I (@discoveringdanny and family) have been focusing on getting Lexi back to health. A few weeks ago Lexi kept getting sick and couldn’t keep any food down. She then started acting differently so I took her to the hospital where they admitted her into ICU, placed on a medically induced comma, on a ventilator, and me that her organs started failing,”
Reed also noted in the statement that he was told that it was “possible she could have died” if she had not been brought to the hospital.
According to his update, the couple does not have insurance but thanked fans and followers for their ‘prayers’ and positive messages. He later created a GoFundMe page for Lexi where they’ve raised more than $60,000.
Health Update
The day after Danny’s post, Lexi herself took to Instagram to give an update on her health condition. She wrote,
“Im back home and ready to overcome the next part of this part of my story. Happy to be alive when it wasn’t seeming to be not possible and i was unresponsive in the trauma room. Thank you to everyone for the love im already seeing today from the past month.”
Then, she told her IG followers on Monday (Feb. 15), how she was doing while undergoing dialysis. “Not my best 6 am photo but part of my daily ritual – dialysis,” she wrote along with a photo of herself wearing a face mask, glasses, headphones, and wires attached to her body.
She continued,
” I have to go 3x a week for 4 hours where they hook me up to a machine and remove waste + excess fluids as my kidneys aren’t working,”
She then added that she is ‘working to heal’ while on dialysis and revealed that she was never hospitalized or anything before all of this. Lately, she shared a picture of herself sitting in a wheelchair in which her right leg still seems swollen and numb.
She mentioned that she has been doing exercises for her leg and her kidneys have shown improvement with labs/dialysis.
Lexi Reed: Then vs Now
Reed couple came into the spotlight of the media after their weight loss story went viral over the internet back in January 2016.
In two years, Lexi dropped to 78 kg (173 pounds) from 219 kg (485 pounds) while her husband Danny dropped 43 (95 pounds) from his 94 kg (208 pounds) frame.
The two wed back in 2015 and during that time, they weighed a combined 346 kg (765 pounds ). They make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight at the time.
The pair then started going to the gym five to six times a week and started to eat home-cooked food.
In 2018, Lexi underwent a nine-hour surgery to remove seven pounds of excess skin from her body.
For the past eight years, Lexi has been chronicling the ups and downs of her weight loss journey, which she shared with her IG fans and is an inspiration for millions.
Short bio on Lexi Reed
Lexi Reed is a social media personality who gained the spotlight in 2016 by sharing her journey of losing 141 kg (312 pounds). People have been talking about Lexi’s health condition lately, and they blame her weight loss journey for causing it. See more…