Fire Country alum Leven Rambin is revealing the unexpected complication that she says she sustained during a recent surgery to treat her endometriosis.
“I went in for a routine endo laparoscopy,” Rambin, 36, wrote via TikTok on Friday, July 10, detailing her procedure. “I had a Netflix job I needed to be at in two weeks and my doc said I would be fine. I woke up after surgery to many doctors and surgeons telling me they ‘saved my life’ after the [doctor] accidentally KNICKED [sic] my aorta.”
Rambin explained that other physicians “immediately performed repair surgery” on the vital artery, giving the actress a blood transfusion during the procedure.
“I’m on every med under the sun, my mom flew in,” she explained of her recovery. “I did get diagnosed with stage 1 endo and polyps.”
Endometriosis is a chronic and painful conduction in which tissue similar to what lines the uterine wall grows outside the uterus, according to the Mayo Clinic. The condition can impact the ovaries, fallopian tubes and tissue lining the pelvis, causing extreme pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and difficulties conceiving without medical intervention.
In Rambin’s case, a surgical specialist had punctured her aorta during the laparoscopy, a technique used by physicians to access the pelvis via small incisions.
“The first thing I said was, ‘Is this your fault?’” the Hunger Games actress recalled in a follow-up TikTok video. “She said, ‘Yes, it’s my fault.’ I said, ‘Aren’t you a specialist?’ She said, ‘I’m human.’ … I’m pissed, obviously. I understand it was a ‘risk’ like anything. It was a one in a million ‘freak accident’ that I’m still processing.”
Rambin has since been recovering in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) for almost a week in after the surgerical complication.
“Why yes, I am up and walking after this crazy traumatic surgery,” she said in a TikTok video shared Sunday, July 4, giving an update on her fourth day in the hospital. “They told me that’s the best thing for healing, and I’m a f***ing bad bitch. I’m not gonna sit there and cry, although I have been crying. I think the reality is starting to hit me of what happened.”
Rambin continued, “I was clearly in shock and medicated when I was making all those funny videos [about the incident]. It’s now starting to land. Don’t you worry, the gravity is starting to hit. Trying to avoid the mental rabbit hole if I can, but I’m only human.”
On her Instagram Stories later on Sunday, Rambin revealed that she had been discharged from the ICU wing.
“Out of the ICU and recovering like a rockstar,” she gushed via her Stories. “[I am] hoping to leave the hospital today.”
