Brooke Shields feared she might become paralyzed after breaking her femur in January and then faced the threat of dying from a distressing staph infection during her recovery, according to a new interview.
The “Suddenly Susan” star said the “survival mode started” as soon as she fell off a balance board at a New York gym and suffered a serious training injury.
“A sound came out that I had never heard,” he reminded People. “I kept saying, ‘I can feel my toes’ because I was so scared to be paralyzed.”
The shields were operated immediately to insert two metal bars, “one from the top of the hip down and another through the hip cavity.”
However, the broken portion of his femur came out soon, forcing the Golden Globe-nominated star to undergo a second surgery to “add five rods and a metal plate to anchor everything in place.” .
“I never considered myself Zen, but I realized with some calm that the rest is up to me now,” he said.
The battle of the shields did not end here. Two weeks after her second surgery, she developed a staph infection that she feared could be MRSA at site IV where she received three blood transfusions.
“Thank God it wasn’t,” Shields, 55, said. “If it had been like that, my doctor would have said it would have been a race against time. This is how it can become septic. It seemed unthinkable. “
Shields has been relearning how to walk and has been documenting her physiotherapy sessions on Instagram. He started with sessions once a day, but challenged himself to increase to twice a day.
For the first time in my life, I thought, “I can’t feed this,” he recalled. “I can’t even stand on my feet or climb a step. I need to learn to walk again. The feeling of impotence is shocking ”.
But he stepped forward, saying, “If anything, I’m a fighter.”