Madonna is reflecting a year after being discharged from the hospital following a life-threatening illness.
The Th4 singer, 65, took to Instagram with a carousel post that included 10 photos of her celebrating the Fourth of July. But it’s in the caption that Madge expressed her appreciation for life after last year’s ordeal that landed her in the ICU and a medically induced coma.
“One year ago today, I had just come home from the hospital after surviving a life-threatening illness,” she wrote in the caption. “I could barely stand in my backyard holding a sparkler. I have made a miraculous recovery and had an incredible year. Thank you, God. Life is beautiful! ♥️🧨🔥.”
The “Like a Virgin” singer was hospitalized due to a serious bacterial infectionand her hospital stay included a medically induced coma for 48 hours. She reflected on the seriousness of his health earlier this year, during the first of its five Celebration World Tour sold out shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Per VarietyThe singer began her nine-minute speech at the end of the show by telling the audience: “I’ve fallen off a lot of horses and broken a lot of bones. I have a titanium hip. I mean, the list goes on, but nothing can stop me… This summer, I had a surprise. It’s called a near-death experience.”
Admitting that the experience was “pretty scary,” she shared that her assistant told her, “The first word I said was ‘No. ‘ And I’m pretty sure God was saying to me, ‘Do you want to come with us? Do you want to come with me? Do you want to go this way?’ And I said, ‘No. No.'” She added one more for emphasis: “No!”
The “Material Girl” singer also had previously revealed to her fans who thought she would not survive the traumatic event.
“I didn’t think I could do it, and neither did my doctors. That’s why I woke up with all my children sitting around me,” Madonna said at the time. “I forgot five days of my life — or my death. I don’t really know where I was. If you want to know my secret and how I survived, I thought, ‘I need to be there for my children. I need to survive for them.'”
ET spoke with Dr. Justin Fiala, a pulmonology, critical care and sleep specialist at Northwestern Medicine, and he talked about how serious bacterial infections can become.
“It’s common to think of them as benign, but if left untreated, they can become quite serious and are a common reason people end up in the ICU,” Fiala said. “Bacterial infections can start out relatively benign in theory, like a cut in the skin that looks like a localized type of infection, but if left to fester and get worse, they can go deeper into the body and spread, and once they spread, that’s usually when we’re getting patients admitted to the intensive care unit.”
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