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Sam Vanderpump, Lisa Vanderpump’s nephew, announced that he has been diagnosed with end-stage liver disease.
Sam Vanderpump has been diagnosed with end‑stage liver disease and informed he probably will not live more than a few years
In the Made in Chelsea episode that aired on Oct. 27, Sam Vanderpump, a nephew of Lisa Vanderpump, revealed that he has been diagnosed with end-stage liver disease and that his doctors have given him a warning of only a few years of life. He explained that at the age of 28, the medical team told him, “My liver is not going to get better.” Besides that, he will be having a panel to decide whether he can get a liver transplant. Therefore, his family and friends, the people who know him the best, are extremely concerned about him while he is going through the next steps of the check-up and treatment.
Sam Vanderpump is determined to cherish each moment after his diagnosis of liver failure‑stage — expecting first child with fiancée Alice Yaxley
While talking to his costar, Ollie Locke, Sam Vanderpump (fatherhood is on the way with his fiancée Alice Yaxley) expressed that he is living in the moment despite a not so good prognostic. His words were: “For me, it is still valid that I am healthy.” Sam also said, “I wish it will be so that I remain in good health until the very day when they will be calling me for surgery.” Then I will go to sleep and when I wake up, I will be healthier.”
Sam Vanderpump dealt with sepsis and is currently at risk of end‑stage liver disease
Sam has been hospitalized on several occasions these last few months, with his condition being critical in December. What was initially extreme back pain and dehydration soon evolved into liver and kidney failure, and it was also found that he had sepsis – a very serious and life‑threatening condition caused by infection. The doctors who attended him said that it would have been a death sentence if he had postponed going to the hospital by another 24 hours.
Sam Vanderpump on his sepsis scare: “Not even the doctors knew what was going on” — the health crisis that prompted his engagement
“I just wasn’t feeling great and was going back into hospital a few times and no one could really understand themselves,” Sam Vanderpump told Good Morning Britain in May, remembering a terrifying stretch of repeated hospital visits. After he had severe back pain and was very dehydrated, his condition escalated quickly with liver and kidney failure — sepsis was what the doctors eventually diagnosed him with and he was told that it would have been fatal if he had waited another 24 hours to come to the hospital.
The experience reshaped the person’s global perception and the concept of love. “When I met my girlfriend for the first time, now my fiancée, I told her that this is the girl I’m going to marry,” Sam remembered. “So when I got out of that situation and realizing how short life is, I said, ‘Let’s do it now.’”
