Princess of Wales

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The abdominal surgery must have been pretty huge to expect a fortnight stay in hospital. I had a total gastrectomy and total vagotomy and only stayed ten days.

The Royals generally don't seem to have streams of visitors in hospital.
Think of all the times Philip was in hospital. I can only remember Charles visiting once.

I’m sure when she was in having babies there were photos of her mum visiting but maybe I’m wrong

Aren't there back doors into all these hospitals that the visitors to 'royals' use? I'm sure I read that somewhere. Obviously William has to be seen arriving at his wife's beside but they aren't going to show the children going in.

Yes agree. I think Kate is probably in a different hospital having the care she needs ,away from the media .

They're calling for someone to visit her for sure.

touched a nerve? Dyed in the wool Tory who knows the Tory scum bags are OUT OUT OUT in the next general election? Ha!

putting 2 and 2 together I think the Princess has IBD and the surgery is related to that. It’s a horrible condition, although treatments have come along in leaps and bounds. I feel very sorry for her if that’s the case and sincerely wish HRH all the best.

Your imagination is faulty.

The Royals are not treated like anyone else.

Princess Kate will be indulged by the sycophantic establishment and its fawning servants. And if I were she/her I would milk the system until I was good and ready to return to the demanding job of mother not just to 3 young children but also to the Nation.

‘Your imagination is faulty.

The Royals are not treated like anyone else.’

of course they aren’t. The sooner this bunch get downgraded to mere figureheads the better. They’ll be happy for it.

@avocadotoaststoppedmebuyingahouse Thanks. That's interesting. However, the length of time P of W is in hospital seems astonishingly long because we're so used to inadequately short hospital stays in underfunded hospitals. If we got the care we really needed, there wouldn't be so much of a gap between ordinary hospitals and that private one. It was brought home to me 5 yrs ago, when in an ordinary hospital in Austria, how bad things have got in the NHS. During my 8 day stay over there there were loads of nurses (interestingly many young boys) who didn't seem overworked, and had time for all of us. Meals were top quality, hygiene and cleanliness top notch, and every patient had bedside television and radio. Ultimately, I don't think we can conclude that the P of W is in such a serious condition as her length of stay might suggest.

IBS is a medical condition and surgery is not a treatment option.
Chrons / Ulcerative Colitis are possible explanations for her illness/surgery.

I didn’t say IBS - I said IBD which is an umbrella term for conditions like CROHN’S.

Didn’t mean Crohn’s to come out in caps!

@Dantedisciple I really doubt as a mother of 3 young children she will want to be away from them any longer than necessary.

I am glad that it was worth it in the end, but can imagine the recovery was a bitch. I hate that hospitals and people put off gall bladder surgery as if it's a "whenever we get to it" type of surgery. It really isn't and can cause some severe complications, as you can attest to since you have the worst liveable complication that I can imagine.

As for the poster you are replying to, I think they want us to believe they have some medical knowledge/training. Sadly, they have outed themselves as nothing they have written sounds remotely medically sound.

Thank you. Yes it was definitely worth it, but oh so tough, and for the first 8wks really post surgery then I began to move around a bit easier and was actually back to work part time at 4 months. It was a bit early but I wanted to get back into a routine. Yes I see on here and in real life people putting off gallbladder removal, as you say like it’s optional. If anyone ever gets acute pancreatitis they will be sorry. If people think gallstone pain is bad (and it is) acute pancreatitis is a whole lot worse and life threatening. Get that surgery done anyone who is putting it off. I’ve had quite a few surgeries now, including ruptured appendix 7 months before gallbladder removal and the GB removal was easiest the most straight forward recovery. 3 tiny incisions and if it wasn’t for the fact it kicked my pancreas off I’d have been recovered in a couple of weeks