Kate Middleton in Hospital - Recovering from Surgery

[Anonymous]

I had a hysterectomy in 2019 and was in the hospital for three nights.
It was a pretty tough recovery - lifting / weight restrictions. I had a catheter and hospital would not release me until I could complete the fill and pull voiding trial successfully.
My guess is she's being kept at the hospital out of an abundance of caution.

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Anonymous wrote:When's the last time she was seen in public?

Probably the walk from church at Christmas? I don’t think she did any events yet this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just curious of what kind of abdominal surgery she had because she won't be doing her regular duties until after Easter and I want to meet her and Prince William and the kids in person so I could give them something special if that is possible

I've been on DCUM for over 10 years and seen alot of weird posts, but this one is really at the top of the weird pile

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Anonymous wrote:A hysterectomy at such a young age greatly increases the risk of Alzheimer's.

Really?

And other health issues

https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/rapid-aging-after-hysterectomy#research

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Anonymous wrote:A hysterectomy at such a young age greatly increases the risk of Alzheimer's.

Really?

If the ovaries are also taken out then the lack of hormones can increase the risk. But anyone at Kate's age would usually be given hormone replacement until menopause age.

[Anonymous]

From my own medical experience, she could have suffered some form of bowel perforation which can lead to a major surgery in which you're on a ventilator after with an "open belly" and extensive antibiotics. Once they know the infection and risk for further perfs is controlled, you go back to surgery and get closed up. Antibiotics via IV continue. Likely there is a permanent or diverting colostomy. Feeding is done via IV and then once you can eat, its a slow process.

Hospitalization can easily last 2 weeks, even for someone who could have all types of access to care at home.

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Anonymous wrote:From my own medical experience, she could have suffered some form of bowel perforation which can lead to a major surgery in which you're on a ventilator after with an "open belly" and extensive antibiotics. Once they know the infection and risk for further perfs is controlled, you go back to surgery and get closed up. Antibiotics via IV continue. Likely there is a permanent or diverting colostomy. Feeding is done via IV and then once you can eat, its a slow process.

Hospitalization can easily last 2 weeks, even for someone who could have all types of access to care at home.

True- complications from abdominal surgery can last a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world could she have had done that was PLANNED, yet will keep her in the hospital for two weeks, and home bound until Easter?

This is 2024! Two weeks? I can’t even imagine what it could have been since it was planned.

Most cancer surgeries are planned.

It was a hysterectomy

Which can be done as an outpatient procedure.

[Anonymous]

My hysterectomy for benign fibroids when I was 38 kept me in hospital for a week, but it was just uterine. I kept my tubes. I was catheterized. A more radical hysterectomy involving removal of everything would probably mean a longer stay. However, the good news is total removal of offending parts usually heralds full recovery. It is an operation which then has potential side effects monitored with appropriate treatment. Thus despite a usually good prognosis for future health if carefully maintained with medical monitoring, it is a very serious operation. I had mine done in winter and it takes longer to heal in colder months so I was told, for some reason... It was also bloody sore and the catheter is not nice... If, and I say if, The Princess of Wales has had to have this done I wish her well with optimism. I wish her good health.

[Anonymous]

So it looks like Charles will be hospitalized too. I highly doubt they planned both of these around the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:based on what I've read here and being a woman, my first guess she had major gynecological surgery. Second guess major surgery involving her digestive tract. Regardless, non-cancerous; if it was she would have had the surgery ASAP, and not waited until her work schedule was free. Not too surprised she had surgery, however; her photos over the last 12 months show a woman who IMO was extremely thin. Makes me think she had a health condition that had been brewing for some time.

My speculation is that she either has intestinal damage from an eating disorder, or she has a legitimate disease like crohns and had to have parts of her bowels removed. But truly no idea.

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Anonymous wrote:What if hospitals in England have different rules for how long patients stay at the hospital?

They don’t. Plus she is private and could have home visits (though NHS would do that too). This is something serious, though palace sources have said not cancer.

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Anonymous wrote:
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.

Not in England

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world could she have had done that was PLANNED, yet will keep her in the hospital for two weeks, and home bound until Easter?

This is 2024! Two weeks? I can’t even imagine what it could have been since it was planned.

Most cancer surgeries are planned.

It was a hysterectomy

Agree. And that timeline to not have public duties makes sense. She’ll be at home with very limited activity in bed for a month.

No way she’d be in hospital for two weeks after a hysterectomy unless there are complications.

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Anonymous wrote:https://people.com/kate-middleton-hospitalized-following-abdominal-surgery-details-official-statement-8430668

She will be in the hospital for 10-16 days. It must’ve been a big surgery!

Or she’s the princess of wales and gets the literal royal treatment. The rest of us would have to be back at work.

Yes but this is the same women who left the hospital hours after giving birth I think all three times. So she's not one to lay around if she doesn't have to.

You know she did that on purpose for the optic, right? Everything they do is calculated.

It’s also very normal in the UK