I just read that Kate Middleton is in the hospital recovering from abdominal surgery. It sounds really serious since she will be in the hospital two weeks? Hoping for a quick recovery but what type of surgery would require that long a hospital stay?
It could be many things. But do remember. It’s only here that they bounce you out of the hospital after a day or two regardless of the procedure.
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Surgery that is covered by national health insurance or rich private pay. Like the SecDef stay at Walter Reed, things are different when medicine is not profit motivated
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Things are different when you’re the wife of the future king.
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2 weeks is a long hospital stay even with Cadillac care. Its obviously more than a minor procedure.
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Something that required a laparotomy (or similar) I’d guess.
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I read that they confirmed that it is NOT cancer related.
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And convelescing at home until April. Wishing her a speedy recovery.
Changed title header to edit out one of my pet peeves. 
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And has asked that her medical condition be kept private. So…I’m thinking it might be nice to respect that and not guess.
I wish her well as she recuperates.
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Tummy tuck?
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Hysterectomy commonly has a 10 -14 day stay in the UK. And a 2-3 month recuperation time, which has also been reported.
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Wow. Does one get 2 nights in the US? With maybe 6 weeks of disability at most before returning to work?
ETA Mt. Sinai says 2-3 days in US unless it is laproscopic, then less than 24 hours.
Crazy!
I was wondering, too. A hysterectomy done in the modern way (transvaginal with laparoscopy), here in the US, you’d go home the next day - it is a really easy surgery. Patients go home the next morning, usually don’t even need pain meds.
She’s so thin, I would doubt a “tummy tuck”, and if she’d wanted that, she probably would have had it soon after the birth of her 3rd child. And even that would be a sooner discharge.
Honestly, the only abdominal surgeries I can think of that would be done on a thin woman in her 40s that would require a 2 week hospital recovery are really bad things, like a Whipple for pancreatic cancer or the big ovarian cancer debulking surgeries. Anyone would prefer to recover at home if they could, and she can have the best of nursing care in her own home, so if she has to stay in the hospital for two weeks, this had to have been something very serious. I think that they’re hiding what’s going on.
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Somebody I know had a hysterectomy a few months ago. It was an outpatient procedure and she had to be off work for about 2 weeks, not allowed to lift anything more than 10 lb during that time.
I love the subtle misogeny of all of the discussions of this (not just here but in general). There are so many abdominal surgeries that women can have unrelated to their vanity or reproductive tract. She could have an abdominal abscess that requires antibiotics, she could have a benign liver mass, so many things, many of which would require a longer recovery.
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That’s what I think. While it wasn’t an emergency surgery they had some significant travel that’s since been cancelled. A “planned” surgery would have been scheduled to avoid that. Whatever it is, I wish her well and a speedy recovery.
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Hiding? It’s her personal business- she’s entitled to some privacy.
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And her FIL is scheduled for surgery next week…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/world/europe/king-charles-surgery-prostate.html
Roomies?! 
(sincerely, I wish them both well)
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It isn’t misogeny, it is relying on statistics. Thousands of women have hysterectomy surgery in their 40s; it is a not uncommon procedure. Very, very few have benign liver tumors.
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