Ugh this is shit. Never a good time to get cancer, but 42 ain’t it.
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Dynamics of the royal family and press aside, those poor children. I don’t care if they have an army of nannies and tutors, Mom is still Mom and they have always clearly been attached to her. And I’m sure it’s really tough for them with her gravely ill like this.
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And of course their dad was traumatized by the very public loss of his own mom when he was just a kid himself.
Here at the library we had to hastily cancel a book display that some of my colleagues were going to make with the theme “Is your princess in another castle?” (Vaguely royalty-themed mystery, etc.).
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Ugh. This hits close to home right now. I’m sorry to hear the news. I haven’t watched the video yet but I will do so.
A friend is undergoing chemo-- I kept her company last week during her 2nd chemo treatment. It has been quite a shock to my system as this friend is 40 and has a school-age kid.
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Well that sucks.
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It really does.
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Well I guess we’re done here.
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I am sorry to hear she has cancer but remain utterly baffled by the handling of PR around it.
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What kind of conspiracy theorists are you? Just accepting her version of events because she says it is the truth?
Amateurs.
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The played the Big C card. Checkmate. Game over. We’re the monsters if we keep conspiring. A real UNO reverse on the media.
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and that both of them had unrelated mystery surgery that happened to find the cancers? I mean, surgery will find early cancer that may or may not have grown quickly enough to become a problem, but the note that the originals weren’t because of cancer screeners or symptoms is odd to me. They could have just glossed it over and not left the question at all. I guess it’s just back to the question of why such bad PR work?
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That part made sense to me - bad abdominal symptoms- imaging - remove something most likely non cancerous but the biopsy says cancer.
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I’m sure there is a lot we will never know.
I don’t want to know.
If they’re lying about the broad strokes and there is no cancer, that’s the kind of ugly that defines you. I hope they aren’t.not that I want her to have cancer, but…
And not telling anyone so the kids don’t find out checks out.
But why the bonkers PR shit???
Probably the team was smoking her sweet chemo weed.
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The part that is mysterious to me is… When the doc says “It’s almost certainly not cancer!” Who goes out and tells everyone, “It’s not cancer!”?
I mean, I’m not especially superstitious but that would feel like jinxing myself!
But I agree that the story as a whole, I don’t see any reason to doubt it, and I feel as awful for them as I would for any (well resourced) family in that position.
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Yep I wouldn’t be surprised at all on this for endo, fibroid removal, or diverticulitis. All of them you’re going in for a likely non cancerous surgical removal but testing may show otherwise ultimately. And molar pregnancy. And SBO. Lots of options there that fit the bill, sadly.
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And her history of HG means she may have felt truly shite because it uses the same hormones or something (sorry. I understand the broad science there but am not a biology person). So effectively nasty HG symptoms plus chemo.
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I don’t understand who you think announced to whom that it was “not cancer “ other than her physician to the princess of Wales.
That seems like a reasonable thing to me, a physician, giving his/her opinion on what he/her found in surgery.
Who is the “ everyone” here?
Her exact words are “… At the time it was thought my condition was non-cancerous.”
Kensington Palace put out a statement at the time of her surgery that it was non cancerous- which made sense given that Charles diagnosis was around the same time. The “everyone” is a press statement made by her press team.
But I don’t have any doubt they found out after pathology, quite usual
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Oh ok. Thank you.
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