Vicki Gunvalson Reveals Harrowing Near-Death Experience: My BF Found Me in the Tub!

Vicki Gunvalson is opening up astir a harrowing near-death experience.

Even though Vicki Gunvalson is not 1 of the titular Housewives connected The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 18, she volition ever beryllium the OG of the OC.

As she tells it, radical mistook her alarming symptoms for a stroke. Then, doctors misdiagnosed her with a sinus infection.

Ultimately, she received a diagnosis and treatment. This could truthful easy person been the extremity of her life.

Somehow, Vicki Gunvalson has returned. On RHOC Season 17, Episode 8, the OG of the OC returned arsenic a “Friend of.” (Image Credit: Bravo)

What near-death acquisition did Vicki Gunvalson survive?

As you tin spot successful the video below, Vicki Gunvalson sat down for the Monday, August 26 occurrence of her My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast podcast.

According to Vicki, she received a diagnosis successful aboriginal August. Doctors determined that she had a sinus infection.

Before she headed disconnected for a household abrogation successful Europe, she explained, doctors prescribed her antibiotics. Unfortunately, that was not the extremity of it.

When Vicki Gunvalson returned location from her European getaway, she suffered assorted alarming symptoms.

She began losing clip — not minutes, but “an hr oregon two.” At 1 point, she went from the hairsbreadth salon to her bureau with nary representation of the intervening time.

People astatine enactment told her that she had been “talking gibberish.” This besides extended to writing, arsenic she seemingly sent an email that “didn’t marque sense” to the recipient.

An affectional Vicki Gunvalson opens up connected a podcast astir her near-death experience. (Image Credit: YouTube)

Vicki Gunvalson’s symptoms were alarming; was she having a stroke?

Everyone tin garble a sentence, a paragraph, oregon more. Anyone tin find themselves “briefly” mislaid successful thought lone to find that it’s 15 minutes later. But these are not mean moments — they were reddish flags for a wellness emergency.

One of Vicki Gunvalson’s clients warned her that she mightiness beryllium having a stroke. Strokes tin manifest with assorted symptoms, and unintelligible code is possibly the astir recognizable of them all.

The infirmary allegedly “misdiagnosed” her with a sinus corruption and sent her home. Unfortunately, this is not the extremity of her fearfulness story.

The Real Housewives of Orange County prima Vicki Gunvalson makes an incredulous look astatine the proposition that her archenemy is prettier than she is. (Image Credit: Bravo)

At home, Vicki Gunvalson’s boyfriend, Michael Smith, aboriginal recovered her successful the bathtub astatine home. (Thankfully, she’s done with Steve Lodge forever) Michael spoke astir this connected the podcast.

“One of the scariest things for maine was erstwhile I walked in, for immoderate reason, Vicki decided she wanted to instrumentality a bath,” helium expressed.

Michael recalled: “So she’s successful the bathtub with water, and I locomotion in, and she’s beauteous overmuch passed out.”

The Real Housewives of Orange County’s erstwhile reigning queen Vicki Gunvalson calls it similar she sees it. (Image Credit: Bravo)

What was the existent diagnosis?

14 hours later, Michael sought aesculapian assistance for his girlfriend. This time, doctors recovered the evident existent origin of her near-death experience.

“She had a monolithic infection… it was really sepsis, but it was pneumonia,” Michael described connected the podcast.

He added: “The mode they explained it is that erstwhile your assemblage is warring that large of an corruption and that unsafe of an infection, your full assemblage attacks it.”

The Real Housewives of Orange County prima Vicki Gunvalson got into a spat with 1 of her chap Housewives astatine the 2018 RHOC Reunion Special. (Image Credit: Bravo)

“My close lung is beauteous compacted with junk,” Vicki Gunvalson shared. She besides admitted that she has precise small energy, contempt her merchandise from the hospital.

Though Vicki Gunvalson has latched onto unhinged antivaxx conspiracy theories successful the past, it’s bully to spot that she was consenting to judge aesculapian assistance erstwhile she needed it.

We anticipation that she volition soon marque a implicit recovery. Vicki Gunvalson deserves to beryllium capable to enactment this near-death acquisition down her.