Kate Middleton in Hospital - Recovering from Surgery

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Anonymous wrote:Organ donor to family member

Ooh that’s a new one! The hospital recovery time is a little long, but that would be a nice story.

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Anonymous wrote:Organ donor to family member

Ooh that’s a new one! The hospital recovery time is a little long, but that would be a nice story.

Probably would have selected a different hospital that specializes in transplants rather than this one.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is hiatus hernia repair.

Nope, I had that a few years ago, a partial esophagus wrap, and was just kept overnight for observation. I didn’t return to work for another four weeks but that was due to a very limited diet due to the wrap. I felt fine most of the time, and was able to run errands and go out some so as not to go stir crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:So the news outlets claim she and William had plenty of engagements this month, so this surgery wasn't really 'planned'. What if it was actually an ectopic pregnancy, with complications arising this week that have resulted in her not only losing the baby but an emergency hysterectomy being done? Would that be closer to a 2 week hospital stay and 2 month recovery perhaps?

An ectopic pregnancy was my first thought as well. By “planned” they might’ve just meant “scheduled a couple hours in advance”. Then again, the uterus is technically not in the abdomen.

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I think if it was pregnancy related, they'd release that fact.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

William and Kate had quite a strong relationship with Deborah James aka Bowel Babe who was bringing awareness to colon cancer.

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Anonymous wrote:My money is on bowel resection surgery to treat Chrone’s disease. Their own website says you’ll go home after 3-10 days and takes about 3 months to fully recovery. Boom.

https://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/services/treatments/crohns-disease-abdominal-surgery#how-to-pay

You should be able to go home after 3 to 10 days.

It may take up to 3 months for you to recover fully. Most people feel much better after the diseased part of their bowel has been removed.

Crohn's disease

It’s odd how often that’s been misspelled on this thread.

I had been diagnosed with crohns disease for about 10 years before I was able to consistently spell it correctly. It’s a weird spelling.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

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Anonymous wrote:So the news outlets claim she and William had plenty of engagements this month, so this surgery wasn't really 'planned'. What if it was actually an ectopic pregnancy, with complications arising this week that have resulted in her not only losing the baby but an emergency hysterectomy being done? Would that be closer to a 2 week hospital stay and 2 month recovery perhaps?

An ectopic pregnancy was my first thought as well. By “planned” they might’ve just meant “scheduled a couple hours in advance”. Then again, the uterus is technically not in the abdomen.

Not in the abdomen, wouldn’t take that long for recovery both in hospital and at home, wouldn’t pick that hospital, etc. also no indication they wanted more children and a much larger gap between the youngest and another pregnancy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

But why release the name of the hospital or any information at all?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

But why release the name of the hospital or any information at all?

So the media could camp out and see William arrive the next day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's the most obvious explanation- it's something embarrassing that involves her bowels and pretty perfect princesses don't have bowels. The clinic she's in specializes in this. Think horses not zebras.

I suppose you'd be just fine with having your bowel surgery discussed across the world?!

Calm down.

Kate should’ve known about what she chased after for a decade. Surely she knew that there wouldn’t be much privacy, even for health-related matters.

I certainly wish her well, but certainly she doesn’t expect this to not be speculated about.

Knowing that you have little to no privacy doesn’t make disclosing an illness that is possibly scary and/or life threatening any easier.

Again, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, no matter how much the press and public wish to speculate

But why release the name of the hospital or any information at all?

I’m not inside the press office/team making these decisions. I don’t know what the reasoning was.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think that Kate has any obligation to share the details, but I want to speculate anyway.

I don’t think it’s Crohn’s because Crohn’s is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, not at age 40+. I want to believe that if Kate had Crohn’s she would make it one of her charity issues instead of keeping it secret. I say this as a Crohn’s sufferer who is trying to bring more awareness to the disease in order to get more funding to find a cure, because right now we are stuck with the best treatment being a massively expensive (for now) and relatively dangerous medication. But of course Crohn’s sufferers have zero obligation to disclose because people are stupidly immature about the disease, and everyone has a right to health privacy.

And yes I know this is highly speculative!

I will add that not all Crohn’s sufferers consistently have diarrhea. I rarely do. My symptoms are abdominal pain and the occasional bowel obstruction. And I look completely fine and always have. Except for one point where I had a perforation Crohn’s has never made me look sick.

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Anonymous wrote:Chron's or diverticular disease requiring bowel resection/s.

Yes, open colon resection.

Does this usually require an ostomy bag?

My brother had a colectomy for Crohn's disease, plus they took his diseased gallbladder and had to repair an anal fistula (caused by the Crohn's). He was like inpatient for 9 days. The thing about inflammatory bowel disease is that sometimes people are really sick by the time they need surgery, and you need to get that under control. My brother needed iv nutrition, steroids and biologics bf he was healthy enough to withstand surgery.

She always looks active and healthy—and as short ago as Christmas. Did your brother appear sick, was he active?

Not the poster you are responding to, but makeup and filters can work wonders. My son got rail think like her with Crohn's. She is unnaturally thin. In his case the small intestine was impacted.

My BIL’s second wife was like that. She was in and out of the hospital for years. Often for weeks at a time.