"I Just Barely Made It": Muni Long Just Revealed She Was Given One Week To Live, And The Details Are Scary

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Muni Long is thankful to beryllium alive.

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The R&B singer, known for songs similar "Made For Me" and "Hrs & Hrs," revealed that she precocious underwent a treble lung transplant, aft doctors estimated she had lone 1 week to unrecorded without surgery.

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On Good Morning America, Muni walked Robin Roberts done the events of her life-threatening wellness scare that she experienced portion performing arsenic the opening enactment for Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" tour.

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“I should person ne'er taken that tour, but determination was truthful overmuch going connected successful my beingness that I had to bash it,” Muni shared connected GMA. The vocalist is also surviving with lupus, a chronic autoimmune information that tin mistakenly onslaught steadfast tissues and organs.

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"About midway through, we’re up successful the Northeast, it’s truly cold, and with autoimmune, the acold is truly not your friend," she said. "I got truly sick, I got pneumonia, I had to measurement distant for a fewer dates. But I’m similar this is not it, I got to spell back."

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"I went backmost and I deliberation possibly astir 5 oregon six dates in, I was like, this is not … I couldn’t adjacent get retired of furniture to marque my telephone clip for the stage," she continued. "And the past show, I conscionable hardly made it, I was lone capable to bash 2 songs. My squad and my household were like, you conscionable request to travel location and rest.”

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When Muni returned location for Thanksgiving, she recovered herself waking up successful a hospital, with a squad of doctors delivering terrifying news. They informed her that she would request a treble lung transplant to prevention her life. If she didn’t opt for the surgery, they estimated she’d lone person 1 week to live.

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“I’m like, it sounds similar you person a time," Muni said she told the doctors. "How agelong bash I person to live? And they go, a week. One week. And my jaw dropped literally. I was like, ‘That’s rude.’ But they conscionable wanted maine to, hey, this is not a joke, you request to marque a choice. You tin either spell to hospice oregon you tin get these lungs.”

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Muni told Robin that she's present six months post-op, and is doing comparatively well. "No symptoms, asymptomatic, nary infections, nary of that,” she shared. She besides said that she volition request to person vocal surgery. "I don’t cognize what it’s going to dependable similar erstwhile I unfastened my rima to sing a full song," Muni said. "I tin sing sentences, present and there, but I can’t execute conscionable yet.”

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Although she's anxious to get backmost connected signifier and to spot however her dependable volition dependable post-recovery, Muni is grateful that she has much clip with 1 peculiar guy. "I look astatine my lad and I deliberation astir however overmuch much beingness that I person to live," she said. "And I deliberation conscionable prime of beingness was first. I can’t sing if I’m not here.”

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The vocalist wants radical who brushwood her communicative to instrumentality the clip to remainder alternatively of burning retired their bodies. “I deliberation the bulk of my trauma conscionable came from trying to clasp everything in," Muni said. "Trying to enarthrosis everyone else’s problems, ever trying to beryllium the beardown friend. The 1 who has it each together. I did not talk up for myself arsenic I should."

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"And lupus disproportionately affects Black women, who are conscionable expected to amusement up and beryllium everything for everybody," Muni continued. "Don’t enactment yourself connected the backmost burner for everyone other … Don’t beryllium acrophobic to accidental no. Rest if you request to. It’s a extremist happening for america to rest.”

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