Kate Middleton in Hospital - Recovering from Surgery

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan but this is quite sad. No matter how rich or powerful you are health is a lot of luck. I do wonder if this is years of restricted eating and overexercise catching up to her. If so I hope she gets the support she needs. I feel sorry for her kids, it must be scary to see your mom hospitalized like that.

Yeah they have some ridiculous dietary restrictions like no fish because someone long gone was allergic to seafood. Seafood is a major part of bn my healthy diet

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The USA, due to its peculiar and inhumane medical costs, sends people home to deal with their problems by themselves WAY earlier than European or Asian first world countries.

So a one week stay in an American hospital for something serious can very well be a two week stay in a European or Japanese hospital.

Yup! For an “easy” birth, 48 hrs for US hospitals, 5 days for Japanese hospitals. I had an emergency C-section and nurses were badgering me about when I would be leaving about 48 hrs afterward; I stayed for 5 days which was as long as my insurance would pay for. In Japan it would have been 10 days.

Maybe Japan is different but in the United Kingdom at NHS hospitals, the stay is SHORTER than at US hospitals. The standard procedure at NHS hospitals is to discharge the patient after 6 to 24 hours after a "normal" birth.

I thought the NHS was supposed to be superior. That's horrible!

Actual it’s not. Who wants to be in hospital when you can recover in the comfort of your own home? This is a far superior approach. There is no need to be in hospital. Also it’s routine in England to have home visits after discharge.

Ummm me for one. Having nurses available with the press of a button to show me how to feed my baby, check me for complications like severe bleeding, help with shower and post birth care was so key. A home visit a few days later isn't the same.

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My God, I can't even stand reading this thread. So many trolls. No, people - she's not having plastic surgery of any kind. It's clearly a serious digestive issue, as several posters have already said.

Honestly, the Kate trolls can't even give her a break when she's clearly sick.

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Anonymous wrote:The desire for her to have an eating disorder or mental health issue by some posters in this thread is disgusting

Those posters are doing the same as everyone else on this thread--speculating. No one is wishing for her to have the conditions they are speculating about.

The speculating on this thread is many degrees dumber than even on reddit. Impressive amount of utter stupidity here.

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Anonymous wrote:After my stroke last year I insisted on leaving the hospital after 3 days. I could not sleep there and I did my recovery at home. My docs told me they had never seen a stroke patient recover so quickly.

My previous boyfriend left 2 days after his stroke, though it was not quite aa bad as mine.

People get very sick in hospitals.

agree. Seriously doubt she will be there the whole 2 weeks. I think they’ll sneak her out past the cameras in 2 or 3 days while nobody is looking

If it was only 2 or 3 days stay, they should have just not said anything until after she was released from hospital

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The USA, due to its peculiar and inhumane medical costs, sends people home to deal with their problems by themselves WAY earlier than European or Asian first world countries.

So a one week stay in an American hospital for something serious can very well be a two week stay in a European or Japanese hospital.

Yup! For an “easy” birth, 48 hrs for US hospitals, 5 days for Japanese hospitals. I had an emergency C-section and nurses were badgering me about when I would be leaving about 48 hrs afterward; I stayed for 5 days which was as long as my insurance would pay for. In Japan it would have been 10 days.

Maybe Japan is different but in the United Kingdom at NHS hospitals, the stay is SHORTER than at US hospitals. The standard procedure at NHS hospitals is to discharge the patient after 6 to 24 hours after a "normal" birth.

I thought the NHS was supposed to be superior. That's horrible!

Actual it’s not. Who wants to be in hospital when you can recover in the comfort of your own home? This is a far superior approach. There is no need to be in hospital. Also it’s routine in England to have home visits after discharge.

Ummm me for one. Having nurses available with the press of a button to show me how to feed my baby, check me for complications like severe bleeding, help with shower and post birth care was so key. A home visit a few days later isn't the same.

She already has that kind of care on a daily basis.

Didn’t the Queen see a doctor every day during her reign?

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NP here. The RF has the resources for private nursing care, with all the bells and whistles, at home. I imagine that her situation must be pretty serious if they are keeping her this long, which comes with some inevitable risk of hospital-borne infections as well as leakage of information about her condition.

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Anonymous wrote:So the statement from the palace said that she had surgery at The London Clinic. The London clinic does not have a Gyn dept. They have cancer care (reporters have been told it’s not cancer) and “digestive health” which includes Crohns as well as tumors and other procedures.

If it had been Gyn, she’d have gone to St Mary’s or the Portman.

Wow, DCUM folks really sleuthed this out. Never disappoint, DCUM.

So yeah, very likely some sort of digestive or colon issues: Crohn's, UC, or a bowel perforation.

My best friend had a bowel perforation while working overseas as an expat. It took forever to get properly diagnosed (months) and when they finally figured out that it was a perforation, he was in the hospital for about 2 weeks to recover after the surgery. You're on a ton of antibiotics and need round the clock observation.

Wrong - this hospital does treat fibroids and endometriosis so could have been in the gyno department.

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Anonymous wrote:So the statement from the palace said that she had surgery at The London Clinic. The London clinic does not have a Gyn dept. They have cancer care (reporters have been told it’s not cancer) and “digestive health” which includes Crohns as well as tumors and other procedures.

If it had been Gyn, she’d have gone to St Mary’s or the Portman.

Wow, DCUM folks really sleuthed this out. Never disappoint, DCUM.

So yeah, very likely some sort of digestive or colon issues: Crohn's, UC, or a bowel perforation.

My best friend had a bowel perforation while working overseas as an expat. It took forever to get properly diagnosed (months) and when they finally figured out that it was a perforation, he was in the hospital for about 2 weeks to recover after the surgery. You're on a ton of antibiotics and need round the clock observation.

Wrong - this hospital does treat fibroids and endometriosis so could have been in the gyno department.

No. The timelines for those kinds of surgeries the way they do them at this hospital are completely wrong.

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If she was having mental health treatment, they’d claim she was on vacation somewhere and do it abroad or get her in-house help. 100% this is a serious abdominal surgery of some kind that she had to go to the hospital for for a long time, otherwise they just wouldn’t have commented. The conspiracy loons are really out in full force in this thread

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why William also cleared his schedule with all this. He’s next in line for the throne, so you’d think it would have been a good opportunity for him to act as official/unofficial leader of the firm while his father is out. They have a full staff that can handle everything at home, so it would probably be good to have at least one senior Royal out doing royal things.

I guess either Kate’s situation is way worse than we know, or William just took it as an excuse to do less.

Staff are not the same as parents . Especially if the kids are upset about their mom’s absence.

This is 2024. Let’s hope that modern royals are actually close to their young children.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are going down the rabbit hole about abdominal surgery but you're forgetting that that is simply what their PR office said. We have no way of knowing if it's true. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it had nothing to do with abdominal surgery and they are just staying that to bury whatever it really is. These people spin everything to make themselves come across as perfect as possible. Telling the public that it's abdominal surgery is broad enough to encompass a variety of possibilities and they don't have to be any more specific. It's also something that the public won't be able to visibly confirm (yes, even ostomy bags can be discreet).

My money is on some type of in-patient treatment for an ED or mental health issues. And before the PP comes at me with the list of specialties at this hospital--do you really think the BRF is going to let Kate check into a hospital that is known for treating EDs or mental health issues? Of course not. They'd send her somewhere else to throw people off and tie into whatever spin they are giving the public.

Her brother, James, had suffered from severe depression. He has discussed it publicly and Kate has made herself the face of bring king mental health to the forefront, destigmatizing it.

Without going into whether Kate has done what you said, or whether she's been effective at it, it wouldn't preclude the royal family from handling it this way IF that's what's going on. It's one thing to speak out about mental health and support mental health organizations. It's an entirely different thing to be affected by it personally (or have your family member go through it). She's the future queen for chrissakes. If that's what's happening, do you really think they'd just come clean and be all, "see, even we struggle with mental health! There's no stigma, see?"

Agreed not for the future Queen. Especially given Diana’s history.

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The USA, due to its peculiar and inhumane medical costs, sends people home to deal with their problems by themselves WAY earlier than European or Asian first world countries.

So a one week stay in an American hospital for something serious can very well be a two week stay in a European or Japanese hospital.

Yup! For an “easy” birth, 48 hrs for US hospitals, 5 days for Japanese hospitals. I had an emergency C-section and nurses were badgering me about when I would be leaving about 48 hrs afterward; I stayed for 5 days which was as long as my insurance would pay for. In Japan it would have been 10 days.

Maybe Japan is different but in the United Kingdom at NHS hospitals, the stay is SHORTER than at US hospitals. The standard procedure at NHS hospitals is to discharge the patient after 6 to 24 hours after a "normal" birth.

I thought the NHS was supposed to be superior. That's horrible!

Actual it’s not. Who wants to be in hospital when you can recover in the comfort of your own home? This is a far superior approach. There is no need to be in hospital. Also it’s routine in England to have home visits after discharge.

Ummm me for one. Having nurses available with the press of a button to show me how to feed my baby, check me for complications like severe bleeding, help with shower and post birth care was so key. A home visit a few days later isn't the same.

Actually it’s lovely. No one is clamoring to stay longer unless there is a medical need. Mums love the chance to recover at home and are well looked after. The nurses check for complications and the mother’s shower before leaving hospital (though in my two experiences giving birth I absolutely did not need medical assistance to shower!). Then the health visitor is at your home the following day to make sure recovery is going ok and to help you settle in with the new baby.

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The USA, due to its peculiar and inhumane medical costs, sends people home to deal with their problems by themselves WAY earlier than European or Asian first world countries.

So a one week stay in an American hospital for something serious can very well be a two week stay in a European or Japanese hospital.

Yup! For an “easy” birth, 48 hrs for US hospitals, 5 days for Japanese hospitals. I had an emergency C-section and nurses were badgering me about when I would be leaving about 48 hrs afterward; I stayed for 5 days which was as long as my insurance would pay for. In Japan it would have been 10 days.

Maybe Japan is different but in the United Kingdom at NHS hospitals, the stay is SHORTER than at US hospitals. The standard procedure at NHS hospitals is to discharge the patient after 6 to 24 hours after a "normal" birth.

I thought the NHS was supposed to be superior. That's horrible!

Actual it’s not. Who wants to be in hospital when you can recover in the comfort of your own home? This is a far superior approach. There is no need to be in hospital. Also it’s routine in England to have home visits after discharge.

Ummm me for one. Having nurses available with the press of a button to show me how to feed my baby, check me for complications like severe bleeding, help with shower and post birth care was so key. A home visit a few days later isn't the same.

Actually it’s lovely. No one is clamoring to stay longer unless there is a medical need. Mums love the chance to recover at home and are well looked after. The nurses check for complications and the mother’s shower before leaving hospital (though in my two experiences giving birth I absolutely did not need medical assistance to shower!). Then the health visitor is at your home the following day to make sure recovery is going ok and to help you settle in with the new baby.

Yeah, mums differ in their opinions. I personally felt pushed out and not ready to go home.

Poor Kate.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan but this is quite sad. No matter how rich or powerful you are health is a lot of luck. I do wonder if this is years of restricted eating and overexercise catching up to her. If so I hope she gets the support she needs. I feel sorry for her kids, it must be scary to see your mom hospitalized like that.

Yeah they have some ridiculous dietary restrictions like no fish because someone long gone was allergic to seafood. Seafood is a major part of bn my healthy diet

I thiught that was just during royal tours so they don’t get food poisoning on the road?