Posted on 03/22/2024 11:10:35 AM PDT by nikos1121
Kate, Princess of Wales, has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing preventative chemotherapy. In a personal message, the 42-year-old said planned abdominal surgery in January was successful and it was initially thought her condition was non-cancerous. But tests after the operation found cancer had been present, she said, adding: "This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family."
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I saw someone post that Harry used to call her Catherine and didnt like the name Kate. So calling her Kate was a way to diminish her or some such thing.
I fully understand how you feel about doctors. My own mother never saw a doctor after she had me in 1947. It wasn't until she got very ill in the late 60's, that she finally went to see one, and he diagnosed her with Lupus, which they successfully treated. Back when she was first diagnosed, Lupus was a fairly new, recognized disease. They did all kinds of tests, and until she was diagnosed, told her the problem was in her head.
I'm also of the type that doesn't run to the doctor immediately. I waited three days to go to the emergency room, not realizing my bowel had perforated, and that the horrible pains I had in my side weren't from the antibiotic I had been put on for a bladder infection the same day the pains began in my left side. That night I woke up at midnight, and got sick to my stomach. The pain had subsided, and I was finally able to get to sleep. I thought it was just an adverse reaction to the pill, and called the doctor the next day about it. They said it sounded like a reaction, and would order me something else. After the first day, I had no pain, just a little tenderness in my lower abdomen. Then on the third night, I was laying in bed, and thought, what if it wasn't an adverse reaction to the drug? I figured that I'd go to my local hospital five minutes away, to have it checked out. If it was just a reaction, I'd be home in two hours, but at least I'd know it wasn't something more serious. So I got up at 2 a.m., got dressed, and drove myself to the hospital, and I ended up spending 7 days in the hospital. I've always wondered if one of my family members that had passed, was looking over me, and put that thought into my head that night, because if I'd left it untreated, I could have died of Peritonitis.
I've also suffered broken wrists and a fractured knee in the past, but didn't bother going to the ER for them. I simply waited several days to see it they got any better, and if they didn't, I called the Orthopedic office at the health clinic I go to. I am rather fortunate, that I do have a high pain threshold. But I really think it's the fact that my mother was not a big fan of doctors, and never went, and as a young kid, that made an impression of me. I grew up tough like my mother. My sister that died of lung cancer said she didn't like going to the doctor either, because every time she did go, he always found something wrong with her. But in her case, she should have found a decent doctor, that would have actually diagnosed her with high blood pressure, and been properly treated for it in the beginning. She likely would have died of lung cancer anyway, but perhaps she wouldn't have ended up with aneurysms either.
Years ago, our good friend had throat cancer, I believe it was stage four. (mercifully he’s doing great right now.) He had chemo and radiation and lost all his hair. We didn’t see him in the neighborhood for quite a while obviously. When he felt well enough to come out to socialize after several months, his hair was growing back so well, we all joked that he was really doing Hair Club for Men this whole time and not chemo :).
from twitter:
“Ucerius Clark
@drsclark
So looking at all the clues about Kate Middleton, my opinion/guess is that she had surgery for presumed sigmoid colon diverticulitis and was found to have colon cancer. I see it 2 times a year. If it was ovarian or gyn related she would have had a second surgery which she didn’t.
To clarify: I see presumed diverticulitis that turns out to be colon cancer 2 times a year. I do colon cancer surgery about 100 times a year and diverticulitis 150 times a year.’
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Ucerius Clark
@drsclark
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Not really. Diverticulitis is technically a perforation of the colon…whether micro or large. A perforated colon cancer has a horrible prognosis. It’s a cancer that perforated and one has to presume cancer cells exploded like shrapnel from a grenade.”
COVID JABS.
OR CERVICAL
prior to kate’s surgery there were vehicles seen leaving the grounds late at night that went to the hospital.
It could be she had a diverticulitis attack. I have had one and it was the worst pain I had ever felt before my radical hysterectomy.
I had to sleep upright. Could barely sleep. Could barely get in my car to go to urgent care the next morning.
I never want to go through that again
I’ll be 70 in October and I’m rarely sick. I get my preventive screenings but like you I usually wait stuff out. My family is long lived. My grandmother died at 95 and my mom passed young at 86. I remember my great grandfather. He was born in 1865 and died in 1963. Lol
Tennessee doctors aren’t the best. Maybe better in the big cities but I just stay away
I was the only one in my family that didn't smoke. My only brother, a Vietnam Vet died at the age of 51 of a massive heart attack. My mother and father also died of lung cancer. My father at 73. My mother at 69. My sister was also 69 when she passed of lung cancer. The only one who lived longer than them was my oldest sister, who was an alcoholic, and was basically institutionalized the majority of her adult life. She died of a massive stroke at the age of 74. Had she not been put in psych centers and assisted-living homes, and instead had been living on the street all those years, she never would have lived to be 74. You can understand why sometimes I feel like I'm living on borrowed time.
Thanks mairdie. I appreciate that!
Your story sounds similar to mine. Same cancer, though my kids were aged 9 to 15 and I became a single parent toward the end of the battle. I took the aggressive route, too. Now, 12 years later, I’m fighting a different cancer. I hope Kate does well with treatments. It sounds like the cancer was caught early. Unfortunately, her plea for privacy will fall on deaf ears. The press will never leave her alone. At least we were/are able to fight cancer out of the public eye.
When I was growing up, I never heard of women having breast cancer. Now it’s a different story. Five women in “the lab” where I worked were diagnosed with breast cancer in 5 years. My daughter’s Mother in law had breast cancer, and my son’s Mother in law had breast cancer. All of them have recovered, but that means two of my granddaughters have Grandmothers on both sides of their families that have had breast cancer. Anyone else notice this?
My prayers are with you.
I grew up around relatives with cancer. But, as an adult, I have noticed many other people of all ages have/had cancer. When I was raising my own family, we knew many people of all ages with all types of cancer, just among the people we knew, plus other relatives. As soon as people hear I have it, whether at an oncologist’s office or a pharmacy or anywhere, they tell me about their experience with cancer, and they all believe the rate is increasing. The other day, another patient told me she’s a three-time survivor of two different cancers, and her daughter survived two cancers. But, I’m not sure whether the cancer rates really have increased or I’m just in a position where I’m meeting and talking with more cancer survivors...?
Thank you! It was caught early, so I’m very hopeful. We both survived one battle, right? This is just another battle.
Joe, aka Pedo Pete, announced in July 2023, that he had “ended cancer as we know it”.
Since he’s had his skull opened at least twice to remove brain tumors, he ought to know.
Sadly, he didn’t cure Beau’s cancer.
“Beau caught the cancer fighting insurgents in the Pennsylvania coal mines downrange during Viet Nam against Nazis and Trump supporters during the Blitz in London because Climate Change in the Middle Eastern desert and 81 million ballots mean that ice cream is good but only if the dog likes it too along with pudding while it seems no longer although my butt’s been wiped and who shit my pants in this era of threats to our democracy that I will keep arresting my opponents until I defeat fascism and hold them without trial to enable the weakest among us to thrive with electric vehicles for Unions that my friends in Europe I have are all hate Trump for money while I was a professor in my home town of Pennsylvania that millions of dollars to make me a truck driver and those coal mines are bad Jack while [inaudible] is great and that’s why I’m for [inaudible] and to make the best thing ever and the democracy must for all people be where I can I take questions or do I need to leave now?”
Crikey. I just wrote his next speech. I invite you to share.
Best wishes for the Princess.
I wonder which deadly vaccine he and Kate received ?
Emerald Robinson comment:
King Charles now has cancer.
The Princess of Wales now has cancer.
Celine Dion has “stiff person syndrome.”
Jamie Foxx barely survived “something.”
I can see how you feel that way. Genetics means a lot with your health.
My dad had a stroke in his 50’s but it was his fault. He smoked, had high BP, high cholesterol, and was 300 pounds. He still lived to 81.
Other than Dad’s self-inflicted stuff, there are no heart attacks, strokes, cancer (besides skin), or any other possibly inherited causes of death in my family. We all have genetically high cholesterol, including me, but it has never caused a problem. When I had my physical six months ago, my LDL was high enough to scare the doctor. She put me on Nexletol since I can’t and won’t take statins, and it brought it down but I feel awful when taking it.
I go every three years and have my arteries scanned for blockage and none has ever been found. They also test for PAD and AFIB and those are always negative too. She has sent me to the hospital for scans because she can’t believe that somebody with high LDL for over 30 years can have clear arteries. LOL They never found anything either.
When she tried to make me take infusions for mild osteoporosis in one hip, I fired her. I’ll be seeing a new doctor next month and will lay down the law on meds starting out.
All of the small built women in my family have had mild osteoporosis later in life. My maternal great-grandmother had it and didn’t break the hip until she was in her 80’s and wrecked her Harley. She still lived to 96 or so. I don’t ride a Harley. 😆
My new doctor and I will discuss the Nexletol and why I’m taking it. You’d think that if a person could make it to 70 with high cholesterol and no problems they would leave him/her alone. I’m a medical puzzle to doctors.
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