Country music singer reveals ‘life-threatening’ health issue with hospital pic

EntertainmentTravis Yee shared the details of his health scare with fans. (Cydni Elledge/AP Content Services for Panda Express)AP Photo/Cydni ElledgeBy Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.comCountry music singer Travis Yee checked in late Monday night with a photo from his hospital bed and a concerning tale about why he was there.“I want to share something that happened with my health over the past few weeks that became a lot more serious, and honestly, life-threatening, this past weekend,” he wrote on Facebook. Yee said that he wasn’t sharing the update to seek attention, but rather because he had not been online and people were asking what was going on.“I won’t get too deep into the medical details because, honestly, some of it still sounds like something I’d hear on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy and pretend I understood,” he wrote. Yee then explained that he began to have gastrointestinal issues several weeks ago and went to urgent care twice. “Nothing that seemed like a huge deal,” he wrote. “Then about a week ago, things took a pretty dramatic turn. I started losing roughly 3-4 ounces of blood every evening when I went to the bathroom. And because apparently I enjoy making questionable decisions, I initially thought, ‘Well, it stops afterward, so I’m probably fine.’ “Spoiler alert: I was not fine.”Yee said that Friday marked the fifth consecutive evening of bleeding, and the bleeding did not stop that day. “Within about 30 minutes, I lost roughly 20 ounces of blood and passed around 25 blood clots,” he wrote. “I’m not exaggerating those numbers. The weird part was that I didn’t initially feel dizzy, nauseous, or particularly sick. But since the bleeding wasn’t stopping, I finally decided I needed to go to the emergency room.”Yee said he drove himself to the hospital where he had “another episode of significant bleeding: He said he also became nauseous and fainted several times in the emergency room.”The singer said that a CT scan revealed “internal tears and bleeding involving some blood vessels.” “After that I was taken into surgery,” he wrote. “The surgery was performed through my groin area, and I’ll spare you most of the details because some things are better left between me, my doctors, and whatever dignity I have left.”Yee said doctors performed a colonoscopy and found an ulceration that appeared to be causing the bleeding. They also took biopsies. “And now I’m finally home,” he wrote. “I’m doing okay. I have to take it easy for a while, and there are still a few areas that need to heal, including where the surgery was performed.“If your body is giving you a warning sign that something isn’t right, get it checked out,” he added. “Don’t assume it’s nothing just because you don’t feel that bad. I was fortunate that I eventually went to the ER when I did. Looking back at how much blood I had lost and how quickly things progressed, I realize now how serious this actually was and how much worse the outcome could have been. I was told this was a life threatening situation.” Yee added that he was grateful to his doctors and nurses for saving his life. Yee, 41, is known online as the “Asian Country Singer,” and he promotes it on his website. He rose to fame by covering country songs on TikTok and also appeared on Fox’s “I Can See Your Voice.”Brian Linder is the trending editor at PennLive.com. He has more than 20 years of experience working for newspapers first in South Carolina, then Daytona Beach, Florida and now in Pennsylvania. Linder spent...