Weight loss influencerLexi Reedis recovering in the hospital and working on getting “back to health” after being put on a ventilator in a medically induced coma, her husband Danny shared on Thursday.Reed, 31, started getting severely sick a few weeks ago, Danny explainedin a post on her Instagram account.“A few weeks ago Lexi kept getting sick and couldn’t keep any food down. She then started acting differently so I took her to the hospital where they admitted her into ICU, placed on a medically induced comma, on a ventilator, and me that her organs started failing,” he said.If they had waited any longer, Danny said the doctors told him, the outcome would have been dire.“They said if I waited another day to take her she could have died,” he added in an Instagram Story.Lexi Reed.InstagramLexi has been in the hospital for a month now, Danny said, and is awake but still sick.“She is currently in dialysis, can’t walk, and working on recovery,” he said. “Getting her back to health has been our top priority.“Danny said that they do not currently have insurance and are considering starting a GoFundMe for her medical costs.Lexi Reed Instagram"Thank you all for your prayers they all mean so much to us and this will be a long hard battle part of her story but she is strong!” he added.Lexi gained fame in 2016 as she documented her journey to losing 312 lbs. alongside Danny, who dropped 95 lbs. himself.RELATED VIDEO: PEOPLE’s Half Their Size: Married Couple Danny & Lexi Reed Lost A Combined 407 Lbs. Together"A friend challenged us to 30 days of no eating out, cheat meals, soda or alcohol,” Lexi told PEOPLE in 2018 for the annual Half Their Size issue. “We started cooking, meal prepping, tracking our calories and reading nutrition labels.“Over the course of two years, they lost a combined 407 lbs., though Lexi said that “it wasn’t about the weight that we lost but the life we gained.“Lexiunderwent skin removal surgerylater that year toremove 7 lbs. of loose skinfrom her stomach and had planned to have more removed in the future.In recent months, Lexi has shared that the COVID-19 pandemic set her back in her weight loss maintenance and led to gains.In September, she shared a photo of herself at her heaviest and one of her at the time, and said that “despite gaining some of that weight back I’m still happy to be alive after fearing I’d miss 30 and I’ll never go back to where I was.”
Weight loss influencerLexi Reedis recovering in the hospital and working on getting “back to health” after being put on a ventilator in a medically induced coma, her husband Danny shared on Thursday.
Reed, 31, started getting severely sick a few weeks ago, Danny explainedin a post on her Instagram account.
“A few weeks ago Lexi kept getting sick and couldn’t keep any food down. She then started acting differently so I took her to the hospital where they admitted her into ICU, placed on a medically induced comma, on a ventilator, and me that her organs started failing,” he said.
If they had waited any longer, Danny said the doctors told him, the outcome would have been dire.
“They said if I waited another day to take her she could have died,” he added in an Instagram Story.
Lexi Reed.Instagram
Lexi has been in the hospital for a month now, Danny said, and is awake but still sick.
“She is currently in dialysis, can’t walk, and working on recovery,” he said. “Getting her back to health has been our top priority.”
Danny said that they do not currently have insurance and are considering starting a GoFundMe for her medical costs.
Lexi Reed Instagram
“Thank you all for your prayers they all mean so much to us and this will be a long hard battle part of her story but she is strong!” he added.
Lexi gained fame in 2016 as she documented her journey to losing 312 lbs. alongside Danny, who dropped 95 lbs. himself.
RELATED VIDEO: PEOPLE’s Half Their Size: Married Couple Danny & Lexi Reed Lost A Combined 407 Lbs. Together
“A friend challenged us to 30 days of no eating out, cheat meals, soda or alcohol,” Lexi told PEOPLE in 2018 for the annual Half Their Size issue. “We started cooking, meal prepping, tracking our calories and reading nutrition labels.”
Over the course of two years, they lost a combined 407 lbs., though Lexi said that “it wasn’t about the weight that we lost but the life we gained.”
Lexiunderwent skin removal surgerylater that year toremove 7 lbs. of loose skinfrom her stomach and had planned to have more removed in the future.
In recent months, Lexi has shared that the COVID-19 pandemic set her back in her weight loss maintenance and led to gains.
In September, she shared a photo of herself at her heaviest and one of her at the time, and said that “despite gaining some of that weight back I’m still happy to be alive after fearing I’d miss 30 and I’ll never go back to where I was.”
source: people.com
