New Amsterdam’s Tyler Labine is recovering from what could’ve been a “potentially fatal” blood clot
The actor posted about the experience on Instagram, including an ambulance ride
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Character actor Tyler Labine, possibly best known for Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil even though he spent five seasons on NBC doctor show New Amsterdam, has had what sounds like a pretty painful and frightening week after realizing he had a “potentially fatal blood clot” impacting his “intestines and liver.” Labine posted about the experience on Instagram (via Deadline), complete with a video showing himself in a hospital gown and riding in an ambulance.
In his post, Labine explains how quickly his condition deteroiated over the course of a couple of days, saying:
Sometimes it’s a Tuesday and you’re walking around with a tummy ache so you try to sleep it off. Then sometimes you wake up on a weds with a stomach ache so bad you decide to go to the ER at your local hospital. And then sometimes your tummy ache turns out to be a potentially fatal blood clot in your intestines and liver and you have to spend the next 3 days in the hospital trying not to die. Just sometimes.
He said he’s “doing alright” now, though he is recovering slowly, adding, “I’m counting my blessings and just possibly reassessing what’s really important to me in this life.”
Labine played Dr. Iggy Frome on all five seasons of New Amsterdam, which starred Ryan Eggold as a medical director who radically decides to make his hospital good and helpful. He was also in Escape Room, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and starred on Sons Of Tucson and Reaper. If anyone out there is concerned about potentially developing a similar blood clot, the ever-helpful (or “helpful”) WebMD suggests that pretty much anything weird or painful on your body could be a sign of a possibly life-threatening blood clot. So just look out for that.
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wishing him a quick recovery
He’s going to Heaven for Tucker and Dale, Tudyk already punched his ticket with Firefly.
Glad he’s okay. He’s one of those character actors that I always perk up to see in things. I still have my dvds of the first and only season of “Invasion”, the great Wiliam Fitchner Everglades body snatcher show that ended way too early for reasons that never made sense.
It didn’t get Lost numbers in order to justify the budget. There is your reason.
He was also a hoot on Reaper.
Damn I didn’t recognize him. Then again Reaper was almost 15 years ago.
And, before that, the short-lived show Dead Last.
Weirdly, he sticks out in my mind most from a Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a movie I saw one time on like Comedy Central years ago. He kinda shared billing with Alan Tudyk in Tucker and Dale, so I tend to associate that movie with both of them.Regardless, hopeful for a speedy recovery for him.
Hoping for a quick recovery and that the cause of the clots has been found and handled.
Well now I’m worried about this tummy ache I have.
The Escape Room movies are one of my guilty pleasures and I thought he was one of the best parts of the first one. Glad he’s gonna be okay
Tyler Labine is obviously best known for his work opposite Ryan Gosling on Breaker High.