Pss of Wales- surgery/no engagements until Easter

Yeah cuz she couldn’t have round the clock care at home and rest. I don’t understand everyone trying to denigrate and minimize what’s clearly a serious medical event from a woman begging for her privacy.

Where’s the same speculation that the King’s Prostate surgery is really a butt lift? Geez

I think the best wishes we could give the Princess is to stop speculating at what may be wrong with her, why she needed so many days in the hospital, if she just wanted a break from her kids, etc. She is choosing not to share her personal medical information with the world which is her right. Maybe some day she will disclose what her surgery was about though if I had to bet, someone will leak it for her. And she might become the face for whatever malady or elective procedure she has chosen. Or she might not.

It is her body, her choice. Respect her and all women enough to leave her alone.

I hope she recovers quickly. The abdomen contains a lot of organs and muscles, so I think speculating is pretty useless if she isn’t making it public. As far as the long recovery, my daughter’s friend was in the hospital for 10 days when she had a major repair for a hernia and problem with her abdominal muscles after childbirth. It was pretty extensive and took her a long time to recover. She didn’t even have any complications.

I don’t get it either. Why is getting a tummy tuck seen as a negative? 

I’m also LOL-ing at a certain pot calling the kettle black in terms of saying someone else is rude. 🤣

I hope Catherine has a smooth, uneventful, quick recovery. 

This is gross and rude with a side of low key misogynistic. Why do we need to be like this to other women?

I had an emergency gall bladder removal in the 90s. I spent 4-5 days in the hospital. But I was given a no work for 6 weeks order and I’m no princess. I don’t know when Easter is this year but it must be around 12 weeks. So it doesn’t seem like such a long time. Her royal engagements usually require standing and high heels and possibly travel so why not take off as long as she wants.

It’s about 10 1/2 weeks from now—March 31st. And the kids will be on school holiday. UK schools generally get a 2 week break. I’d guess that those plans fall at the end of her recovery and she wanted to spend that time with her family. I also wonder if they felt that it was better to have her go back ready to go full time vs piecing her events together, picking and choosing what she does or does not attend and offending those who weren’t chosen. 

It’s misogynistic because you wouldn’t say it about a man.

If the press release said Prince William was out for 6 weeks because of a surgery your comment wouldn’t be “my first thought was tummy tuck.”

Your first reaction about her having a health issue was to criticize her body.

OH FFS...no wonder this board is dying a slow, painful death. Every 2nd topic that isn't a list of stuff, what's for dinner or a stupid game with no discussion wanted or required, has one of the handslappers out trying to shame people.
If it's a non popular celeb then there's accusations of being obsessed or a hater...or racist. If it's a well liked celeb, then you're invading their privacy and have no respect for them. Suddenly all famous people are god like creatures that us plebs are no longer permitted to discuss.
It makes me wonder if you people have any actual conversation with people around you in your real lives? Do you talk about world issues, people in the media, famous people doing good and/or bad things? 

Good grief, talk about overly dramatic...
No-one said she isn't entitled to privacy, and I am 100% sure neither she or anyone in her family has ever heard of 2Peas. She doesn't GAF if anyone here sends their best wishes or not No-one here is reading her medical records or going through her garbage. Even with people speculating...her privacy remains completely intact. 

She is one of the most well known women in the world, they made a public announcement that she had abdominal surgery, so speculating about what is might be is 100% normal and not disrespectful in the least...and even posters who say stuff that not everyone agrees with can still participate, they are free to say what they think and others are free to tell them why we don't agree. It's called a conversation.

Charles isn't getting the same speculation not because of misogyny, but because they already told us which specific body part he is getting treated. IF they just said he's had "surgery" - he'd be getting the exact same speculation. In fact I was a little surprised that they said it was prostate issues...but good for him, maybe him being public about having prostate issues might encourage some men to get examined too.

The reason he specifically disclosed his treatment was for exactly that reason. Hits on the NHS website for prostate information was up markedly today apparently.

Since the beginning of the original pea board to currently.....there has been and always will be one or two or ten members.....that want to dictate and control what can or cannot be said or talked about. Self appointed pea police, hand slappers, shamers, etc....
As well as those who label threads and those who un-label threads.
It's happened on many threads throughout the years.

Just my personal opinion......I think, unless the Admin says something is off-limits......then each and every member should be able to discuss, offer an opinion, contribute, say whatever they want on whatever the subject matter. 

I ignore the ones who try to dictate what can or cannot be discussed or talked about. 

I've been hand-slapped a couple times in recent months and in the past. Whatever! 

OK...I have a wild new theory.
We were talking about it at work and trying to work out what would necessitate such a long time in hospital, with a bit of brainstorming from several nurses (including one who works with babies) someone suggested she might be on bedrest for an at risk pregnancy.
Now that makes quite a bit of sense to me, a small procedure for a pregnancy...maybe a cervical suture? and strict bed rest & continual monitoring...and with her history of severe morning sickness, that would be dealt with as well.
Then not seeing her until after Easter would give them the time to see if the pregnancy was viable, then it would be safe to announce it when she is 5-ish months along...or they could release another statement that she isn't ready to retune to public engagements yet.
If the pregnancy is not viable, it would protect her from having to deal with this in the public eye, unless they decide to share that information at some point in the future.

So that's where my 'educated guess' is at now, a 'surprise' pregnancy with some complications.
If all goes well 🤞, we'll know in about 6-7 months.

She also does quite a few engagements with small children - where she's squatting down at their eye level (in heels no less) -and active ones - where she's once again in heels and playing sports. I suspect it's a bit harder to ease back into that sort of work after major surgery than if she had a desk job and could sit all day.

I was wondering about surgery for Crohn's disease until I read the theory from pjaye.  In my mind, it's the one speculation that explains the desire for such privacy especially since Charles has been transparent about his own procedure.