Carly Pearce

Ended up going, getting checked, had to go to the ER and was finally diagnosed with recurrent pericarditis, which a lot of people deal with, especially young people, where that happens.

A lot of times it's from a virus that you've had.

A lot of people get it like after they've had a major surgery or whatever.

I didn't really have anything like that.

So it's still kind of unknown why.

But it's something that I have to be kind of like aware of.

I had to really change last summer, like how I was operating on stage and couldn't get my heart rate up and all these different things.

Luckily I've not had another major flare, but I wanted to go public with it obviously because my shows had to be different.

I was like standing stationary for a lot of the shows.

but also just you have to advocate for yourself because even when I had that last flare, it was like, I had a very like prominent sports coach, like a doctor of like a very big sports team.

Yeah.

Tell me this is not pericarditis.

And it was.

And it's like, if you're not advocating for your own self, like who's going to advocate for you?

I'm obsessed with him.

He's like,

I like want to hang him up, put an apple in his mouth and like roast him.

I'm a part of this campaign called Life Disrupted.

And it's actually allowed me to meet one of the very few like pericardial doctors in America, which has been like a total godsend for me.

The short answer is you could, but a lot of people don't.