Pastry chef Anna Polyvio, a well-known personality on MasterChef Australia, used social media to reveal a rare diagnosis. In a post issued on Monday (12/1), the 46-year-old Australian said she had contracted an extremely rare infection that left her between life and death.
On Instagram, where she has more than 224,000 followers, Anna shared records of the period in which she was hospitalized and described the beginning of everything. “A year ago, I woke up and couldn’t talk. They told me I needed to go straight to the hospital, where I went five hours later. They thought I’d had a stroke,” he recalls.
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She explains that the following days were filled with fear and confusion, as doctors were unable to find a cause for her symptoms. “I ended up spending 16 days in the hospital, taking injections, having scans, CT scans, in short, everything you can imagine. I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t speak properly. At first, I had no answers,” he wrote to his fans.
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The picture did not make sense until experts identified the source of the problem. “Finally, they discovered… there was an infection in my skull, in my bone marrow, and the prognosis was not good, as there were only two cases in Australia and I was one of them… One of the scariest conversations I’ve ever had in my life was to stop working for several months. It was limiting in so many ways. I had to slow down, and slowing down is the one thing I never did. But today, looking back, I’m grateful.”
She concluded by saying, “This year has taught me a strength I never knew I had. It has taught me to appreciate everything: my health, my voice, my passion, the people I love. I have done everything in my power to get back to where I am today. And I am proud, so proud. This is a year of healing… and for all the magic that will come next.”