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Nick Cannon on kidney failure: 'I always thought I was healthy'
Published Wednesday, Jan 18 2012, 05:16 GMT | By Jennifer Still | Add comment
Nick Cannon has confessed that he was taken aback by his recent kidney failure scare.
The America's Got Talent host, who recently underwent kidney surgery after falling ill while on vacation with wife Mariah Carey in Colorado, revealed the details behind the health scare during his radio show on 92.3 NOW on Tuesday.
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"I'm one of those people who [has] always been this way... I thought I was healthy. I was trying to be Superman and I hadn't slept for maybe four days because I was taking care of the kids," Cannon said, recalling the beginning of the illness.
"Two days before New Year's, I started to feel this horrible pain in my back," he continued, adding that after initially diagnosing him with kidney stones, "they did some more tests... and - it took a day or two - and they were like, 'We think it's a little more serious than a kidney infection. We're going to keep you in the hospital. You need to stay here'."
Cannon added: "They came and told me that my kidneys aren't functioning. Not just one - not the one that was in pain - both of them weren't functioning right. My immune system started to attack my kidneys... And my kidneys pretty much failed."
The 31-year-old has insisted that he is feeling 100% following the surgery and is back to his old self.
> Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey "closer than ever" after health scare
The America's Got Talent host, who recently underwent kidney surgery after falling ill while on vacation with wife Mariah Carey in Colorado, revealed the details behind the health scare during his radio show on 92.3 NOW on Tuesday.
"I'm one of those people who [has] always been this way... I thought I was healthy. I was trying to be Superman and I hadn't slept for maybe four days because I was taking care of the kids," Cannon said, recalling the beginning of the illness.
"Two days before New Year's, I started to feel this horrible pain in my back," he continued, adding that after initially diagnosing him with kidney stones, "they did some more tests... and - it took a day or two - and they were like, 'We think it's a little more serious than a kidney infection. We're going to keep you in the hospital. You need to stay here'."
Cannon added: "They came and told me that my kidneys aren't functioning. Not just one - not the one that was in pain - both of them weren't functioning right. My immune system started to attack my kidneys... And my kidneys pretty much failed."
The 31-year-old has insisted that he is feeling 100% following the surgery and is back to his old self.
> Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey "closer than ever" after health scare
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