Nearly at her due date and seemingly healthy, one 27-year-old woman says a bizarre symptom had her rushing to the hospital — where she soon had to undergo an emergency C-section and open-heart surgery.
MK Campbell from Texas was 35 weeks pregnant when she awoke to a scary sensation in her chest.
“[I] rolled over in bed one night and [I] felt a pop in [my] chest,” she said, adding that when she sat up, the pain felt like “like there’s a piece of steak stuck in your throat.” 3
Unable to get the pain to subside, Campbell’s husband rushed her to the ER, where a medical team administered a high-contrast CT scan.
She remembers hoping and praying that what she was experiencing was extreme heartburn, but the test revealed a much more dangerous situation.
Doctors reported that Campbell’s