Lamar Odom suffered 12 strokes – yes, twelve – during his near-death medical emergency last week, and his motor skills have yet to fully recover.
Odom is hospitalized in Los Angeles, having narrowly escaped death in Nevada, but the 35-year still faces a long and uncertain road to recovery.
It was believed, erroneously, that a stroke or series of strokes left Lamar Odom brain dead by the time he was found out cold in a Nevada brothel.
He isn’t, and in subsequent days, the star regained both consciousness and Khloe Kardashian, his estranged wife; Khlomar called off their divorce.
Doctors performed a series of brain scans that show Odom’s brain suffered serious damage, however, and that he wasn’t far from losing everything.
They discovered 12 strokes that occurred, and while they didn’t affect vital organs, the episodes did have an impact on his ability to walk and talk.
Lamar’s medical team won’t say if the impairment is permanent, and it’s possible they don’t know the answer. But he will undergo months of therapy.
Doctors don’t know the extent to which his motor skills and speech will be restored, and the physical and speech therapy is far from his only issue.
As previously reported, Lamar’s kidneys failed following the traumatic incident. He is on dialysis and may need a transplant in the coming weeks.
