Overview
- The operation took place Wednesday and lasted about seven hours with roughly 25 medical staff involved, and family reports Nikki required temporary ventilator support after surgery.
- Her mother says Nikki suffered a mild heart attack days earlier and was rushed to the ER after bloodwork showed elevated troponin levels.
- An angiogram reportedly revealed multiple severely calcified and blocked coronary arteries that were too extensive for angioplasty or stent placement, prompting surgeons to move from a planned triple bypass to a quadruple bypass.
- Nikki’s mother has launched a GoFundMe to help cover rent, bills and recovery needs while Nikki is unable to work, and the family says insurance will cover the surgical procedure itself.
- All published details so far come from family posts on Instagram and the GoFundMe page; no independent hospital or physician statements have been reported and Nikki is in early postoperative recovery.