Princess of Wales: surgery and recuperation

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No thread yet?

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

Yes, possibly an infection, it would need very careful monitoring for obvious reasons.

Where was all the love and care when Meghan Markle revealed she had a miscarriage?

I’ve seen her in person, very close up. She does not “clearly” have an eating disorder 🙄

I'm not an especial fan of Kate but it is very different, surely. Plus she's the Princess of Wales and Meghan is not. Remember the difference between the way Diana and Sarah were treated? Zara has had a MC - where was her love and attention? Sophie had an ectopic pregnancy.

As for her having an eating disorder, are slim, fit women really so far outside some MNers' experience?

Exactly. I know someone of 90, she has advanced dementia, frail as anything. Well she fell and broke her hip, in hospital and hip replaced, back at care home 4 days later and physio said they'd never seen a recovery like it. They said as she couldn't remember things she didn't remember the fall, the break, the op and she wasn't nervous about walking like many people are after a hip replacement. You'd never have expected her to be the poster girl for recovery.

We are all different.

On a different thread, have a search for it on Google.

We do if we pay private. I think if you look at the fact we do have NHS for ‘free’ and can pay private that gives us a choice.

What a kind and helpful reply.

I don’t remember anything other than sympathy.

Why wasn't the press release put out a week ago like the Kings upcoming minor surgery?

Given the hospital she’s in is already being staked out by the press, catching all people coing and going on camera, this way meant she entered in privacy, was able to have her family members come and visit her in privacy, and got to the stage where the surgery is complete and they have an idea of how well it went before anyone outside a close circle has any idea where she is. I would have thought that was obvious?

One end of the shunt is in the brain (ventricles, the “V” in VP), the other is in the abdomen (peritoneum, the “P” in VP).

Please note I am not saying she actually has a shunt, or that that’s what she’s having surgery on. Just clarifying the terminology.

That doesn’t make sense - they have both had to cancel weeks/ months of engagements. It wasn’t pre planned.

@Saschka and @Neurodiversitydoctor
I understand what a VP shunt is, and what it does but I don't understand why the Princess of Wales would have one. Why would an adult who seemed perfectly healthy a short time ago require one?

Given the cancellations of engagements, possibly including the to Rome and the meeting with Pope, I think it’s quite clear that “planned” in this instance just means “not an emergency requiring whipping into theatre instantly” rather than planned weeks/months ago.

My daughter has a vp shunt and the abdominal end only ever needs a tiny incision. Complete replacement is bread and butter for neurosurgery, although still quite significant and scary for patient and family obviously. DD has normally only stayed in hospital for a few days. Oh and no contact sports or twisting, e.g. golf

Adults who have VP shunts in childhood love completely normal lives.

I think the suggestion is that it was put in during childhood (hence the supposed scar) and that it must now be playing up/blocked/infected.

In private, just as it was for Zara Tindall for both of hers

And not particularly relevant to this thread. - it's not medical history Top Trumps

Their engagements are planned months in advance, NewChapterBeckons. Planned surgery just means it’s not an emergency - it doesn’t mean it’s been in the diary for a couple of months. It would be planned surgery on Tuesday even if the surgeon decided on Monday it needs to be done urgently.

Whatever the operation, the need for it was clearly identified at some stage prior to yesterday, and when she was (presumably) admitted and the procedure took place. All of which was able to happen in privacy, without anyone knowing where she was.

This is not her first time being in a hospital under the glare of publicity, and I’m sure her past experiences have made her want to keep things like out of p[ublic knowledge as long as possible.

Yes but the complications eg: a significant infection might need more extensive surgery and certainly very close monitoring. I did 6 months on a neurosurgical ward.

Which we all know is total bollocks to free up beds. Yes to being up and moving round, but how great to spend some time being able to recuperate, having people look after you without the expectations that arise as soon as you are out when it’s unlikely anyone will be there 24/7 to look after you. Mind you finding this caring attitude in an NHS hospital is extremely unlikely- more likely to get a caring attitude off the screws in a maximum security prison!

Revealing a miscarriage five months after the event isn’t going to cause the same reaction as a two-week mystery hospital stay that’s happening now. (And no, I’m not trying to suggest anyone has a right to know why Kate is in hospital. I’m just pointing out that it’s a very different set of circumstances.)

Unlikely to be an infection as there has been a statement saying the surgery went well. There are a few procedures with a one to two week stay in hospital, e.g. the Whipple procedure.

It could be an abdominal aortic occlusion and vascular compromise secondary to acute gastric dilatation.

I agree that in this instance planned just means not an emergency.
As a scheduled operation that wasn’t urgent would have been timed maybe better in the summer months and a diary cleared.