(Churchleaders) During the past seven months, Jerry Falwell Jr. has been hospitalized four times for blood clots in his lungs. The former Liberty University president shared that news on Instagram yesterday, noting that “Students at LU have asked why I’ve been so ‘absent’ from LU.”
Next to a photo of himself sitting in a New York City hospital room, Falwell writes that it was “especially sweet” to attend a Liberty men’s lacrosse game over the weekend because last week he was admitted to NYU’s Langone Health.
“Fourth hospital visit for me since August when I began suffering from pulmonary emboli,” he writes. Falwell adds that doctors made the diagnosis and “prescribed blood thinners that should dissolve the clots in weeks or months.” A pulmonary embolism (or P.E.) can be life-threatening.