Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian break silence on hospitalization





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Newlyweds Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian reflect on “a scary and emotional week.”

The pair posted on their verified social media accounts about Barker’s recent hospitalization.

“I went in for an endoscopy on Monday feeling great,” Barker wrote in a note posted to her Instagram Stories. “But after dinner I developed excruciating pain and have been hospitalized ever since.”

The Blink 182 drummer explained that during his endoscopy, he had “a very small polyp just in a very sensitive area, usually handled by specialists, removed which unfortunately damaged a critical pancreatic drainage tube.”

“This resulted in severe life-threatening pancreatitis,” he wrote. “I am so very grateful that with intensive treatment I am currently doing much better.”

Barker and Kardashian officially tied the knot in May and held a lavish celebration in Portofino, Italy.

She also shared Barker’s note on her Instastories.

“Oh what a scary and emotional week this has been,” she wrote. “Our health is paramount and sometimes we take for granted how quickly it can change.”

The entrepreneur and reality TV star wrote that she was ‘grateful to God for my husband’s healing’ and ‘for all your prayers for him and for us, for the overwhelming outpouring of love and support’ .

“I am so touched and grateful,” Kardashian wrote. “I am so grateful to our specialists, doctors and nurses at Cedars Sinai for taking such good care of my husband and me during our stay.”