UPDATE: Melania at Walter Reed following kidney embolization

[RandySF]

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[spinbaby]

1. I wish her well

I’ve had a benign tumor treated with embolization and it’s very painful.

[elleng]

2. Melania Trump undergoes kidney surgery at Walter Reed medical center

First lady Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington, DC, according to a statement from her office.

Trump had been experiencing an issue with her kidney that her office described as benign but requiring medical attention.
"This morning, first lady Melania Trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. The procedure was successful, and there were no complications," the first lady's communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement.
"Mrs. Trump is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and will likely remain there for the duration of the week. The first lady looks forward to a full recovery so she can continue her work on behalf of children everywhere," Grisham wrote.
Trump, who turned 48 last month, entered Walter Reed in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, on Monday morning.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/melania-trump-surgery/index.html

Embolization is a minimally invasive surgical technique. The purpose is to prevent blood flow to an area of the body, which can effectively shrink a tumor or block an aneurysm. The procedure is carried out as an endovascular procedure by a consultant radiologist in an interventional suite.

[CatMor]

4. Too bad many of the children......

She wants to continue her work for (whatever that is) don't have the health care she is receiving.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I think a week in the hospital would be sort of a vacation for

her by allowing her to relax in a caring atmosphere, unlike the W House. I wonder if the moron will even visit her. Last week all she got was a crummy birthday card, then no "Happy Mother's Day" from him. He probably will have a porn star brought into the W House while she is recuperating.

[BannonsLiver]

5. He'll use the opportunity to bang some hooker

Book it.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Too bad Cohen is under so much scrutiny.

Who will act as his pimp?

[BannonsLiver]

7. I hear Dennis Hof is a big fan

So maybe he can fly one out from the Bunny Ranch.

[dubyadiprecession]

19. Did stormy ever talk about his star studded penis?

What I mean is: warts all over his genitalia that resemble stars in the sky. You know, because there's too many of them to count.

[mercuryblues]

28. he plans on fitting her in

between his tweets and McDonalds meal. I wish they would start putting a Happy Meal toy in his bag. Keep his mind off ways to screw us.

[BigmanPigman]

30. I wish he would eat the toy by accident in his hurry to wolf down

his Happy Meal and chokes on it. That would be his appropriate demise. I bet no one would even consider using the Heimlich Maneuver as they stand around and watch as they decide their next career move.

[CelticWinter]

8. i wish her well but....

is the taxpayer picking up the tab?

[RandySF]

9. 100%

[lunatica]

22. Of course.

As much as I dislike her I think we must give the best medical care to the First Family. I only wish everyone could get it toowith universal health care.

[MyNameGoesHere]

10. That's what happens when you pee on toads. N/t

[Ilsa]

11. She's taking a bed for a whole week?

You get pushed out 48 hours after having a baby unless the doctor can find a worthwhile complication to keep you in longer. Lots of minimally invasive oprocedures are done on an outpatient basis.

Who is looking after Barron?

[spinbaby]

12. Give her a break

That’s a week away from the orange one.

[Ilsa]

15. If she can't stand to be around him she should divorce his ass,

not use taxpayer-prrovided facilities.

[HipChick]

13. Barron is being raised by minders..

Even before they got in the WH..his grandparents who came by "chain migration" are now also US citizens are also around

[woodsprite]

18. Maybe her parents. They're here in the states trying to get citizenship. n/t

[woodsprite]

20. Truthfully, she's probably not "taking" a bed.

They probably have a suite reserved 24/7 for the first family.

[Ilsa]

24. I imagine she has personnel assigned to her, though,

who are probably not assigned to anyone else., even if she is using the reserved suite.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. I had embolization surgery back in 2000. I stayed in the hospital overnight.

[mercuryblues]

29. I was wondering what the normal stay for this is

I had a C-section and was out in 48 hours. IMO she had a another procedure along with it, if her stay is that long.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. Mine was fairly complicated, I had to check in daily with the "team" leading up to the surgery

To report any symptoms and to answer questions. The anesthesiologist even visited the next morning to check on how I was doing. And I was on a morphine drip while I was there, the same as when I had major surgery for the same thing at Mass General in Boston. For that, I was hospitalized for a week. But embolization only required two tiny incisions that I barely noticed. BTW, the embolization finally "cured" me, I have had no issues since.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. A week in a hospital bed is no picnic

Beeping machines 24x7, nurses taking blood samples every four hours, other nurses coming in every two hours to wake you and ask how you're sleeping, I don't wish it on anyone.

[RhodeIslandOne]

14. I'm glad that immigrants can enjoy the best care in the world

I believe in that across the board.

[jrthin]

16. I wish her well but I wish they were paying their own bill

and give that money to someone who really cannot afford to pay for health care.

[lovemydogs]

17. I send my Get Well wishes for two reasons

She is not her husband and has really done nothing to hurt anyone like her husband.

I also feel the anger and rage at the right for the way Hillary and Michelle were treated even though they were not politicians but, simply the wife. They did what First Ladies do and were decent. Yet the right treated them like dirt.
I will not stand in the same sewer

[RandySF]

21. She went on television and questioned Obama's citizenship

[HipChick]

23. Yup..she dug her own sewer

[tanyev]

25. Doctors declined her request to remove the extra asshole that follows her around

and tries to grab her hand.

[backtoblue]

27. !

[Kirk Lover]

33. snort guffaw chuckle....ROTFL nt

[Kirk Lover]

32. Be Best....at getting well.