I heard that King Charles wanted to raise awareness to prostate issues so he made his procedure public.
The Princess wanted some privacy.
Both paths are their right.
I’m personally not that curious but I wish them both well.
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They’ve announced that it’s not cancer. Not really any other non-emergency abd surg that I can think of for a thin woman in her early 40s that would require a 2 week postop stay. It’s something really serious, and at that age, done scheduled, urgently enough to cancel their travel, but not emergently, I cannot think of anything other than cancer or a very suspicious for cancer condition that they can say afterwards that they could not be sure about until after they had obtained samples.
Of course she, as an individual, is entitled to privacy. But she is not an individual. She is a royal princess, and the future Queen of England. The royal family plays an extremely important figurehead can ceremonial role for the UK, really, even more than that, since it is a constitutional monarchy, and the family receives incredible privilege and wealth in exchange for that. Part of the deal is most definitely loss of privacy. So yes, their choice to not disclose that is “hiding” it from the British public. Frankly, however, with her having such young children, I think that it is the correct choice to not reveal what’s going on until they know for sure, and then if it’s bad, they can put the best face on it for the kids, to give them as much time as possible before their childhood is over.
I hope for her sake that it’s not that. But I cannot think of anything else that fits the bill.
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I read speculation yesterday that one of the surgeries with that long of a recovery time could be for resection surgery due to Crohn’s disease.
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The rich and powerful seem to have different rules for hospital stays; 2 weeks was also the extended stay for the SecDef at a government facility.
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Colostomy for ulcerative colitis??
Really really really bad hemorrhoids?
Would that be abdominal surgery? I don’t think so.
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She has three young children in the house…I could see opting to stay in the hospital longer if that was a choice, especially if I didn’t want the kids exposed to post op care.
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While true, most hospitals aren’t offering an “avoid the family” option for continued hospitalization…
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If a hysterectomy is abdominal surgery I think you could conceivably call it that. My mom had a D&C years ago (outpatient) and when she came out of the anesthesia I heard her doc tell her he fixed a hemorrhoid while he was in the area. But my hemorrhoid answer was a joke.
The colostomy for ulcerative colitis was not. I know someone who had that done. Rough choice. Not emergency but urgent, not cancerous.
I still think that if she had autoimmune bowel disease, it would have been a long-standing thing, and that she probably would have spoken out about it, become a patron of charities supporting research and treatment.
Don’t really want to speculate but the defense secretary may have had intravenous injections through a pic line for an infection.
His doctors may have been extremely cautious considering the patient and decided to keep him in the hospital instead of home health care. Or a rehabilitation center.
Maybe the military hospital has a rehabilitation wing, that I have no idea about since I don’t have any knowledge of military health facilities.
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Well, at the very least the military hospital did not have a profit motive to discharge him.
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Interesting. I had a friend who had surgery for Crohn’s when I was a kid… wondered about that. It does seem they should have just said “surgery’ in general.
Has anyone heard any updates on her condition? My husband and I think it’s a hysterectomy.
The surgery was successful and she remains hospitalized
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thank you praying for her to return home soon.
A two to three month recovery at home, after a two week hospital stay, for “planned” but sudden abdominal surgery?
There is no way that this is not something very, very serious. The only things that I can think of that would require this long a recovery are all very bad massive cancer surgeries. Even a colectomy would not require a two to three month recovery at home. Hoping it’s not, for her sake and the sake of her family.
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