Katherine Heigl Updates Fans After Neck Surgery: Pictures

May 2024 · 3 minute read

She is titanium! Katherine Heigl printed how her neck surgery went on Wednesday, March 17, days after she needed to fly to Los Angeles to take care of a herniated disk.

“Well … I'm now bionic!! Two titanium disks now inhabit my neck and I can most definitely stand on my head for like hours … I’m not gonna try it simply but but give me a few months and I’ll blow your thoughts!!” the Firefly Lane actress, 42, wrote via Twitter. “I'm so deeply deeply grateful to the incredible Dr’s and care workforce that stored me from the most excruciating ache I've ever experienced and blessed me with a brand new ache unfastened lease on existence!”

Heigl let fans know in regards to the herniated disk on March 12 when she posted a couple of tweets that showcased her husband, Josh Kelley, goofing around in her sanatorium room.

“First go back and forth since the get started of the pandemic is again to LA to deal with a herniated disk in my neck. Thank God for @JoshBkelley for now not handiest coming with me to hold my hand but for providing a lot wanted comedic aid! Only Josh can or would harmonize with the coffee maker!” the megastar wrote along a video of the musician, 41. Her laughter might be heard within the background.

“This is indubitably the fellow you wish to have by way of your aspect throughout a well being crisis. Though … I don’t think I’d bring him to the OB with me. Those jokes would simply be too far,” the Grey’s Anatomy alum wrote in a follow-up tweet.

After a couple of days of silence, the actress returned to Twitter to post a thread detailing how things had been going.

“I in point of fact really feel like [the docs] deserve a big giant shoutout of gratitude and appreciation so I’m gonna give it to them! The Back Doctor App thank you for treating me like … a human being and giving me such a lot of your time and attention to assist me in reality perceive what to anticipate and what all my choices were. Thank you in your super talent and experience and for saving my neck!” she tweeted on Wednesday.

The Emmy winner additionally presented explicit thanks to Cedars Sinai clinic in LA for their “special care and attention” all the way through her stay, pairing the shoutout with an X-Ray photograph of the newly placed disks in her neck.

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“Heading into surgery and hospital stays is always somewhat scary and you guys could not have made me really feel extra comfy or looked after! Thank you thanks thanks!!” she wrote, concluding with 3 crimson heart emojis.

Scroll to see all of Heigl’s updates from the health center.

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