George Clooney was filming a scene in Syriana in 2015 when he by accident cracked his head open. He started feeling the ache on the time, however Lisa Kudrow‘s neurologist brother discovered he had a extra severe situation on the time.
“We began doing these items referred to as myelograms, the place they shoot distinction into your system and you may see what’s leaking out. I had a two-and-a-half-inch tear in the midst of my again and a half-inch tear in my neck,” Clooney detailed.
“The docs did these blood patches, the place they tie you right down to a mattress, and also you’re awake as a result of they’ve a protracted needle and must know in the event that they’re touching your spinal twine, and so they take blood out and shoot it immediately into your spinal column to attempt to get the blood to coagulate in these spots,” he added in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I did about 15 of these over 15 days. It is like getting a spinal faucet daily, and also you’re awake… I believed I used to be going to die.”
Clooney suffered from excessive ache due to his situation, main his docs to try to repair the issue throughout surgical procedure in December 2005.
He additionally took ache administration remedy, however he revealed he has nonetheless struggled with the lingering discomfort after that.