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Ty Pennington Gets Candid About Medical Journey in Wake of Emergency Surgery

Ty Pennington has been through A LOT over the past several months. The host is now opening up about his health struggles.

The veteran HGTV star revealed on Instagram eight months ago that he had developed an abscess that required immediate surgery, writing as a caption back then to a photograph of himself in the hospital: Ty Pennington of Trading Spaces on stage during the TLC portion of the Discovery Communications Winter TCA Event 2018 at the Langham Hotel on January 12, 2018 in Pasadena. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images for Discovery)Pennington went on in this ET interview to explain that he drove to the hospital at 4 a.m. last year — just two days after attending the Barbie movie premiere — with the goal of just getting a steroid to help whatever blockage was in his throat.

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