Princess of Wales: surgery and recuperation

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68009259

It would be odd to need to stay in hospital for 10-14 days for a hysterectomy, 5-7 is usual. It is things like brain surgery, some heart surgeries, joint replacements, or psychiatric reasons that would mean longer hospitalisations. And the press release definitely says abdominal. Hopefully the media stops banging on about it & gives the family the privacy they asked for the beebs is currently announcing it every five minutes.

I was out after a day for a hysterectomy

Could be appendicitis, hernia etc

2 weeks is a very long time for recuperation, even for major surgery.

If they wanted privacy they shouldn’t have announced it. No one would have noticed (or cared much) if she disappeared for two weeks.

It won’t be that long at all. She’ll be discharged in a few days with the longer time period being a cover story.

Appendicitis does not come under planned surgery; it’s an emergency.

I do hope she recovers quickly and that there are no snarky comments .
It does seem a long time to be in hospital . I was only in for 4 days after cancer surgery !

It's also very rarely a two week recovery unless a perforation

I don't believe she'll be in for a fortnight. That's for people who are seriously and unexpectedly ill or injured and start off in HDU.

They definitely would have.

But I imagine the knee jerk reaction to releasing a statement was probably because a journalist found out and was going to publish the story so they got ahead of the game to control the narrative.

Im waiting for the speculation that I just know is coming.

@KarenNotAKaren HG again?

I suspect they've purposely given the two weeks to cover every eventually.

If they said a week, and then it was 8 days
then imagine the headlines.

She may well only stay a week.

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I suspect a journalist has got wind and planned to break the story. It has already been noted she had not taken her kids to school since Christmas. Better to put a statement out giving a few details then asking for privacy

They probably gave worst case scenario to the reporters or if she weren't out quite quickly people would be wondering why.

I just hope she is OK. As visits are being postponed I assume they had to explain why, other than that I hope her privacy is respected.

Nope.

if she was pregnant I imagine they’d announce it ‘early’ like they have with her other pregnancies.

Could be cosmetic - after 3 kids who would blame her!

William has cancelled all his engagements until she’s out of hospital and had a period at home means they had to announce something - both of them cancelling engagements would have been noticed

What speculation do you mean then?

I had my gallbladder out and was in for a week after but mine had ruptured and it wasn't planned. I hope she's ok too.

That’s what I’d been doing after 10-14 days in hospital, reading MN. 🤣

They would have slotted that in during the gaps in engagements rather than them both cancelling engagements last minute

I'd think the duration may have been inflated to throw the press off the scent a bit. So she can leave via a back door sooner than 10 days.

It’s planned surgery so I think a hysterectomy