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We have an update on Kate Middleton and she has come out that she has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy, which is why we have not seen her. So what are your thoughts on this? All?
Right? So, I've been thinking this from the beginning, trying to think of why they would say that she specifically had abdominal surgery, and that is I'm assuming that that covers anywhere where they made an incision on her from underneath of her sternum, so right below her ribs down, and that would include basically all of the organs that
aren't included in the chest cavity. So we're talking about a majority of the GI system, which is the stomach, small bell, large intestine, and we're also talking about the pancreas is in there, the kidneys are in there. But if I were to guess, I would say that a woman of her age, how she's she's forty two, she's forty two, I would say that it's some kind of
gynecological cancer. Now, the reason I'm saying that is because she could have potentially had a surgery planned where she was getting hysterectomy just for abnormal bleeding or something, or she could have had fibroids and that would have been a planned thing, so they say planned versus not planned. A not planned surgery would be if you're appendix burst
and you had to get emergency surgery. So this was something that they found that they were going to do surgery on, but they were able to plan it in advance, so they could have taken out her uterus, which would come along with your cervix and your Filippian tubes ovaries, and it would have gotten sent to pathology, and then during examination of pathology, that's when they could have found
the cancer. So in that a woman of her age, she could have cervical cancer, which is probably more unlikely just because I'm assuming she's getting regular PAP testing, but
it is it is a possibility. Anything's a possibility. She also could have had fibroids, which are also called liomiomas, which are benign tumors of the muscle, and when they look at them at imaging, they you know, they're almost all the time benign anyway, but sometimes you take them out and they end up being a loomiosarcoma, which is a little bit more rare. Any sarcoma would be a
little bit more rare. Also, she could have presented with an ovarian cyst, and that cyst could have looked kind of benign on imaging, but then when they looked at it in pathology it could end could it end up up being some kind of a cancer. So again this is just me assuming, and that's based upon the most common things that would happen in a woman of her age.
Obviously breast cancer and skin cancer is also a thing, but I'm thinking that it was some kind of internal organ thing, just based upon what they're saying, and the fact that she's getting chemo to me, means that it's a little bit more aggressive than just an early finding of a cancer, like a stage one of something that's just general. But sometimes when they find a cancer that's stage one and they're able to cut it all out
right away, they wouldn't do chemotherapy. So the fact that they are means to me that it might be a little bit more of an advanced stage. But I don't know if they follow a different protocol for a princess. But this is just my thoughts. Now, obviously it could be a variety of other things too, because there's so many other things that could happen. Lymphomas, a pancreat assists
that ended up being cancer or something like that. But just going on most common, I would say ginicle logical, or we could also say like a colon cancer of some sort. Now, one of my earlier theories was that she possibly had inflammatory bowel disease, some kind of ulcerat of colitis or Crone's disease, and if she had a
bowel resection for that. There's also possibility, because these patients are at an increased USK for colon cancer, that they incidentally found something like that too while they were examining, especially ulcerative colitus patients. So that being said, that's my opinion. Yeah, So the Palace released an official video earlier today. It has her doing talking directly to camera, explaining what's been
going on with her. You know, they've been pretty sloppy with Ai in the past couple of weeks, so I don't think it's Ai.
I watched it. I think it's her. I think she also looks like she's been through some shit, so it's it's definitely really sad that it turned out this way. I don't know if they'll ever release to us what kind of cancer it is. I mean, we still don't really know definitely what kind of cancer Charles has as well, So it's really sad. And maybe they felt the need to hide this because they didn't think people could handle the King and the princess both having cancer at the
same time, which is really unfortunate for their family. And it's just really sad to see. And you know, we just want to wish her the best recovery possible because it sucks. And you know, she talked about having to tell the kids, and we were just saying, how absolutely horrible that must be to have to tell your young children you're going through this. Well, yeah, and I was even saying that because she's she's around my age, you know.
And I said to Maria, if I got diagnosed with cancer right now, I'm not sure that I would tell the little kids, to be honest with you, unless it was like on a need to know basis, just because kids don't really understand that. And I think her kids are even younger than my little the little ones. So but then Maria had a point like if she has to come public with it. The whole world's going to know,
and they wanted to. Maybe that's why they were waiting so long to make to issue a statement, because they knew they were going to have to tell their kids and they just were trying to hold off on it.
But I'm sure. I mean, kids aren't stupid. They know that something that something's open.
And personally, I think it's better to hear directly from your parent than to hear it from somebody off on the side, you know what I mean. You don't want to hear something like that, especially if you're a little kid and not fully understand it. You at least want to know if you're going to be told at some point that hey, I'm going through this as your parent, and I might not be there. I might be sick and can't do everything and be there for you one
hundred percent. But she's let everybody knows she's going to be okay. I mean, we don't know the full extent of it, but it's definitely said.
I definitely think there's a lot of strategic wording here when they keep just saying abdominal surgery and and like I said, if it is a gynecological cancer. That's technically the pelvic cavity, but I would say abdomen just because that's where they would do the you know, they do
incisions on the skin there. I just think they're very they're being very strategic about how they are saying it because they want to make sure that people like me aren't speculating, because definitely, like an ovarian cancer would be very significant to know what the stage of that is, because that could be very serious, and there's other cancers that aren't as aggressive. So I think that that that
could be a possibility. Why they're why they're holding back with that, And I also just want to say that that she's only forty two years old, and there there's been all these studies done recently. It's been in the news a lot that there's been a thirty percent increase in cancer and young people from the age of fifteen to thirty nine years old, and that increase has started from was looked at in statistics between nineteen seventy three
and twenty and fifteen, and it's clearly happening. We're hearing about this all the time of really young people getting breast cancer, colon cancer, and I mean Ovarian cancer certainly is nothing new. Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer a very young age, so that's a known and been that's been a thing for a long time. But it just does make you wonder what are we being exposed to That the increase of cancer and younger people has increased
thirty percent since the seventies. That's just so striking, right, and it has to be what we're all eating, right.
Yeah, And it's scary to think. You know, they are everyday people, but they also have access to some of the best healthcare in the world. So you have to wonder if she was a normal person in this position, would she be able to get healthcare of this level or be able to treat something like this. We just don't know.
I think I don't know if we're ever gonna find out, but I just obviously it is if. And then we also have to say we're believing her at her word in what she's saying. But obviously, if she went in and she had something, she had something, because they scheduled her for surgery and they thought whatever that something was was a benign condition, and then they sent it to pathology and then they found out it wasn't a benign condition,
and that happens every single day to people. It's not like all we can do before a surgery is done is do imaging on a person. And it's funny because in pathology we always say that radiology is kind of like the weather man. It's like they sometimes they give these diagnoses like could be infectious, could be benign, could
be malignant. You're like, oh cool, so you know it could snow, it could rain, it could be sunny, Like it doesn't really matter because you could just say whatever, right, But I mean, imaging is so good, but it also has its limitation, and it's not as good as looking
at a piece of it under the microscope. And especially with things like fibroids, that are they they all look a certain way on imaging, and then sometimes we get it and we look at it with our naked eye and we're like, eh, something looks a little weird here, And then you look at it under the microscope and it tells a whole different picture. And sometimes even us when we look at gross pathology, we look at the organs and we can't even tell that it looks cancerous,
and then all of a sudden, under the microscope. You know, it'll be a couple of days later and the patholo just to'll come in and be like, do you remember that colon you did a couple of days ago. It looks weird, and we'll pull it back out and we'll look at it again and we'll take more samples of it. So this is this is just kind of the norm in our world.
Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, I feel like there's definitely some more going on and that they don't want to reveal, and they definitely don't have to it just that she's going through all of this and we just have to wish her the best recovery possible. I mean, I.
Feel freaking terrible for her. When when she was sitting there, I'm just like, oh my god.
Like well, like I don't know, because you know, we contributed a little bit to the theories and everything over the last couple of months on here, but it is terrible that they're making this woman have to take this video. You know, if if they just chilled out on all their weird photoshop pictures, nobody would be thinking this weird.
We are not contributing. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to argue with you there, I'm not contributing to rumors. I'm just speculating on her health. I'm not sitting there saying all the other stuff about the cheating into this and the that.
I'm like saying, if the palace just had any chill at all and just didn't you know, they said she wouldn't be out till Easter. Nobody really thought anything of it until they started doing weird things. If they just left it at that, Yeah, wouldn't have to be sitting on a bench explaining that she's going through chemo and.
To leave her alone. Yeah, I mean it. Listen, from the beginning, it was clear that something serious was up. Because when you get surgery, like my little nephew, I guess I will call him, even though he's not really my blood nephew, Johnny. This is my friend Laura's kid, Johnny. This kid was born with he had a hole in his heart, and he was born and he had to get it repaired. When he was about five years old.
This kid had his chest cracked, open heart surgery, and he was up and sitting and eating in bed the next day and he was home within a week. Okay, so they do some crazy surgeries now, and people are ready to go fairly soon afterwards. I know, even when I had my Tommy tuck done, within a week after surgery, I had flew home and I was going to Gabe's graduation at Georgetown with my kids on the Amtrak train. So I mean I felt like shit, trust me. But I'm just saying that for her to be out for months,
she had to be healing from something serious. Now, if she had, I guess another theory you could say is if she had some kind of a pancreatic lesion or something.
Sometimes some of those surgeries, or a lesion in the liver, they could be even a little bit more intense to heal from because they're reworking the GI track a little bit so it Or she could have had a piece of bowel cut out too from from whatever pathology they thought was going on in her ballot, and then had to get a temporary bag and get it replaced again afterwards. So all of this stuff takes time and she needs
to heal. And that's I mean, anybody that's done done anything medical knows that something's up with her, because why would you need four months to recover from anything? Unless it was super serious.
Yeah, totally. So I don't know, like I'm curious if they're gonna give us more information about it or if they're just kind of gonna leave it at this and then force her to go out in the public in a couple months.
So thanks for being here with us today, guys. We just couldn't wait until the end of next week to discuss this.
Yeah, just literally about to walk out the door of the office today and then we were like, no, no, no.
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