Shan George in an interview revealed how she survived a spine surgery in 2019 and the effects it had in her career.
Shan George says she was given a 50/50 chance of surviving surgery after she suffered a spine disease.
The veteran actress made this known during a chat with Sunday Scoop. According to her, what started off as a swollen leg landed her in the hospital. She went on to talk about how the illness later left her bedridden for months.
“Sometime in late 2018, I had just finished organising the artists that would be on the governor’s band for the Calabar carnival in December. After all the rigorous activities, I suddenly realised that my knee was swollen. I didn’t understand what was going on, so I just attributed it to the carnival stress. I took some drugs and rested for a couple of days expecting to be up and about in a couple of days…
“However, by early January, the pain had increased. I kept managing it by using pain killers, but by March, it had become worse. I then started going to hospitals to find out what was wrong. Eight months later, my left leg was almost paralysed. I was already bedridden for some months. That was when my doctor asked me to do a series of tests because I had been on medication since January and I wasn’t getting any better. They wanted to know if there was any disease in me that had been feeding on the medications I was taking,” she said.
For Shan George, the effects of her illness disrupted her career in 2019 making her jobless throughout the year.
