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Houston man kept 67 plants in his home and thought nothing of it. Then he ended up in the hospital needing a heart transplant
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A Houston content creator’s viral TikTok series about his collection of 67 houseplants has sparked millions of views and plenty of questions.
He claimed the plants contributed to a serious infection that left him hospitalized while awaiting a heart transplant.
He said physicians discussed placing him on the heart transplant waiting list at different priority levels depending on how his condition progressed.
House plants can cause real infectionsIn the video’s caption, the creator said doctors told him the infection involved Pseudomonas Bacteria.
In his 2026 posts, Wallace explained that doctors later relisted him as an active transplant candidate at Status 3 after reviewing his case.