Country singer Chely Wright suffered a health scare exactly one year ago and she’s opening up about it for the first time in a candid Facebook post with hopes to help others.
In a post shared to the social media platform on Friday (Nov. 1), Wright revealed that she suffered a stroke in 2018.
“It’s been a long year, but I am okay,” she shares.
After experiencing what she thought was a migraine for three days straight, which she says “isn’t uncommon” for her, the singer decided to head to the emergency room to “to get this headache out of the way.”
When her doctor examined her, he “was troubled by some the symptoms of that day’s headache” and soon confirmed that she had a stroke.
“A stroke,” she writes. “I’d just turned 48.”
Looking back, Wright says she had an inkling that something was wrong that day.
“I sort of knew it,” she admits. “What I had been experiencing with that headache and leading up to that headache was different. I’d even said aloud to myself in the bathroom mirror, ‘Did you have a stroke?’”
Now, on the one-year anniversary of her stroke, Wright says she’s sharing her story in an effort to help others. “Pay attention to your body and encourage your loved ones to do the same,” she urges.
Wright closed her note with a message about the United States healthcare system.
“Again, I am okay and very grateful to have access to quality medical care. As we all know, not everyone in America has that luxury. We have to fix that.”
Wright is currently on the road in support of her Revival EP, which was released earlier this year.
