Maybe it's just me...
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Jan 17: https://www.newsweek.com/kate-middleton-surgery-1861490
Kate Middleton has had "successful" planned abdominal surgery and will be in the hospital for up to two weeks, Kensington Palace announced.
The Princess of Wales apologized for having to cancel royal engagements so she could go under the knife at The London Clinic, where she will remain for 10 to 14 days.
Kate is unlikely to return to royal duties until after Easter as she takes time to let her body recover from the medical intervention. The announcement came less than two hours before Buckingham Palace announced King Charles III is also expected to have a hospital procedure next week on an enlarged prostate.
As the world’s media descended on the London hospital where Kate Middleton underwent abdominal surgery Tuesday, Kensington Palace sources sought to assure the public that the “planned” surgery was successful, the Princess of Wales is doing “OK,” and her abdominal issues are not “cancerous.”
But as the palace declined to reveal anything more about the princess’ “private medical information,” people online noted that the palace said she could be in the hospital for up to two weeks and that her recovery time at home could leave her unable to perform royal duties for two to three months. To many, this lengthy hospital stay and recovery time suggests that her condition is serious, even if she expects a full recovery.
Even the U.S. entertainment site TMZ pointed out: “It’s a startling development, which seems to have come out of nowhere — and more troubling is the fact that a 14-day hospital stay after a surgery is quite a long time.”
Kat Leath, the medical editor for the UK Times, agreed that the length of Kate’s hospital stay indicates that the operation was “fairly serious,” particularly for a healthy, 42-year-old woman. Abdominal surgery could involve “the stomach, appendix, kidneys or bowel, or the reproductive system,” Leath said.
The 10- to 14-day expected hospital stay is indeed longer than usual and exceeds the national average in Britain, which a report by the U.K. Health Foundation said was 8.3 days in 2022. In the United States, the average length of stay for patients in 4.5 days, according to a 2023 analysis.
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Princess of Wales confirms she is undergoing treatment for cancer:
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That's a damn shame. I had a good friend who went in for abdominal exploratory because they could not figure out what the problem was. turned out to be cancer there, unexpectedly.
I wish her healing and comfort. I think the worst part of this is she was compelled to explain what is a very private matter
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@bachophile ...
Any thoughts on what she has going on?
Someone on Twitter said that it could be mucocoele of the appendix - looks benign, but later found to be not so.
I question this - after all, she was hospitalized and we were told to expect for her to be there for 10 days.
My guess - uterine cancer. Looked OK at time of hysterectomy, but pathology gets on the phone, "Uh, chaps..."
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@bachophile ...
Any thoughts on what she has going on?
Someone on Twitter said that it could be mucocoele of the appendix - looks benign, but later found to be not so.
I question this - after all, she was hospitalized and we were told to expect for her to be there for 10 days.
My guess - uterine cancer. Looked OK at time of hysterectomy, but pathology gets on the phone, "Uh, chaps..."
If that’s the case, I always figured it was “women’s stuff” that sent her to the hospital. Didn’t necessarily expect cancer to be the complication. Just hope it’s not one of those particularly aggressive cancers.
Hopefully too it is indeed at an early stage and they can eradicate it. She’s young and seemingly in good shape. That will be to her benefit in the treatment phase.
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Who'd be a royal?
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What is a "Whipple"?
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What is a "Whipple"?
@taiwan_girl said in Maybe it's just me...:
What is a "Whipple"?
Pancreaticoduodenectomy is a major surgical operation most often performed to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas.[2] It is also used for the treatment of pancreatic or duodenal trauma, or chronic pancreatitis.[2] Due to the shared blood supply of organs in the proximal gastrointestinal system, surgical removal of the head of the pancreas also necessitates removal of the duodenum, proximal jejunum, gallbladder, and, occasionally, part of the stomach.
Usually lasts about 6 hours, in good hands.
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Wow! Sounds very sad.
@taiwan_girl said in Maybe it's just me...:
Wow! Sounds very sad.
Also slightly odd that "royal sources" and her "friends" apparently only spoke to The Daily Beast.
