Thomas Markle very ill

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I've just read Thomas Markle is in hospital intensive care. He has been treated poorly by Meghan. I doubt if the pair will have anything to say about this. Though they've always plenty to say about a lot of things. Doubt they'll be rushing to his bedside.

Just because someone gets ill and has their leg amputated doesn’t mean he’s not a dick. He can sell his photos and story if he wants, but doing that and his previous behaviour makes him a dick as far as I’m concerned.

Ah yes, let’s make the seriously ill 81 year old man who’s just had his leg amputated the unreasonable one in this scenario.

not his daughter who couldn’t give enough of a damn to call him, or the hospital, or even send a text.

I know who seems like more of a dick to me.

Sending an email to somebody in intensive care. Who does that.

I have tech savy older family members - they can do e-mail and texts on phones and even video calls - shop on-line etc- some in their 80s. Ones who have been in intensive care - they're ill really bloody ill and often for a long time after wards in normal wards - my FIL mental health on normal ward was dire for about a week after.

Here the man lost a foot is probably very worried and upset and declining health - checking e-mail probably isn't top of list let along an old e-amil account which he may not longer have access to.

It usually nearer family members and possibly phoning hospital you get in touch find out what is going on. So while I see it's very hard if you are estranged from entire family - bleating on about sending an e-mail to on old address really isn't the same as getting in actual touch

Thank you for letting me know it’s not my site 😀

I’m glad you don’t have a problem with it. But I’m also glad that I have different standards to you on what is appropriate to post about two people I’ve never met.

Being 81, having a leg amputated or being ill does not mean that you have not previously been unreasonable. What strange logic. You can argue that she ought to forgive him because he is ill (although remember he has claimed to be at deaths door to the press several times previously and yet here he still is) but to claim that unreasonable people cannot become ill is fairly ridiculous.

TBH it would have been better is she really wants no contact - to make some statment about how sorry she is to hear about his decline and how she wished him well but due to complicated family history she will not be reaching out at this time. Then ride out any blow back.

The I e-mailed and thus it's all his fault - just looks bad all round.

They’re both attention seeking dicks. Must be in the genes. She may not really give much of a damn. Lots of people who are estranged get in touch when illness occurs because they feel a sense of duty. My attitude is if you didn’t want to be in touch when they were well, don’t be guilted or do it through some sense of duty when they get ill. Illness doesn’t change who someone is.

Same here, my fil is same age, very tech savvy, but he probably checks his email once a week, if even that, but he is using WhatsApp, Facebook and instagram daily..

There is also the fact he will be on morphine and lots of medication for nerve pain, antibiotics and possibly even anti depressants.

I think she should have just stayed quiet whether she contacted him or not. She enjoys this circus as much as he does as she’d have just kept quiet and privately contacted him or not. No need for statements unless you want attention and it’s very clear Meghan and her dad like attention.

Darling it’s not my standards you need to worry about. It’s yours and Mumsnet not aligning. If you’re that upset about your comment being deleted ask them not me.

Yes I agree staying quiet was always an option - but it's never one she seems to choose she always want to clap back and set record straight often making everything much worse for herself.

Says it all really

im sure the last thing he wants to do after having his leg amputated is check on his emails. Good grief.

You’d think the last thing he wanted to do was to have photos taken and be in the news but no, there he is. 😂 He's an attention seeking idiot and illness hasn’t changed him.

A bit like his daughter then

Yep. I’ve said that already. Pairs of attention seeking dicks.

At least we can agree on that

You do wonder why you would go to the wedding of someone you have never met!

Exactly unless there’s something in it for you

It's just a shit show isn't it? He said, she said.

I believe George Clooney was already friends with Charles through the (then) Prince’s Trust. We know why Oprah went.

I have to admit I do wonder at that.

I mean it's possible he bounced right back mentally even at 81 but my relatives weren't right for weeks afterwards so does make me wonder how and why this happened and who around him TBH.

They'd both do better with less media shit stirring TBH and possibly other family members.

There's some really poisonous and unsavoury stuff out there about Harry and amputees. This kicks back at his compassion. Yes Thomas M may not be a veteran but he is his FIL. Go Harry and give your usual compassion for amputees. " have you given it a name yet?"

You mean PH?