Pregnant Jana Kramer cut her babymoon short to spend two days in hospital being treated for a kidney infection.
Jana Kramer spent two days in hospital after being struck down with a kidney infection
The 39-year-old country singer - who is already mum to Jace, four, and Jolie, seven, with her ex-husband Mike Caussin - is expecting her first child with her current partner Allan Russell and they took themselves off to Florida for a final holiday before the birth but the trip was cut short after Jana was struck down with crippling back pain and was admitted to hospital.
In a post on Instagram, Jana wrote: "Well. Our babymoon didn’t go as planned but there were some lessons learned. First off and most important, baby is good ... The back pain I’ve been dealing with for weeks wasn’t just back pain. Lesson number one … don’t just brush off pain, because it can be more serious than u think. So many times (moms especially) just brush off pain because we are the last ones to take care of ourselves."
Jana revealed she had been experiencing back pain for more than a week, but she was convinced it was just a normal problem linked to her pregnancy until a message from one of her social media followers warned her it could be more serious.
She added: "When I posted about my back hurting a week ago I just had chalked it up to pregnancy and didn’t tell the doctors because back pain is 'normal' so 'don’t be a wimp' is what I thought. Then someone very sweet in my DMs sent me a message that it could possibly be my kidney. (I’ve since thanked her for her DM).
"But not wanting to ruin our babymoon or be sometimes how I can be (slight hypochondriac … ) we boarded the plane to Florida. When we landed I just couldn’t handle the pain anymore and I started to feel even more sick so we went to the hospital.
"Long story short it was a bad bacterial infection that got into the kidneys. This resulted in a 2 day stay in hospital and antibiotics because I let it get passed where I should have."
She went on to warn others not to put off visiting a doctor to deal with pain.
Jana concluded: "So. Lesson. Listen to ur [your] body. Ur [you're] not a baby or inconveniencing people. If u hurt, talk to ur [your] doctor. Leaving things for too long or not taking care of yourself when ur not feeling good can become very serious. Also shout out to this amazing man who I begged to go sleep at the beautiful hotel he got for us but instead slept on a pull out chair ... *Tip ... Find u a man who doesn’t make u feel bad or leave ur [your] side when ur [you're] not feeling good. Shout out to the nurses at Good Samaritan hospital in West Palm. Y’all were the sweetest."
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