Trump reveals that the first lady is under doctors' orders not to fly for a month

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By John Wagner and Emily Heil

June 8 at 12:09 PM

President Trump on Friday shared new details about his wife’s health, telling reporters that her medical procedure last month lasted nearly four hours and that she is under doctors’ orders not to fly.

As he prepared to leave the White House, Trump said that first lady Melania Trump wanted to accompany him on his travels to Canada and Singapore but that she was unable to go.

“Can’t fly for one month, the doctors say,” the president said. “She had a big operation. That was close to a four-hour operation.”

Trump, however, said his wife is “doing great,” pointing upward toward the White House residence.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-reveals-that-the-first-lady-is-under-doctors-orders-not-to-fly-for-a-month/2018/06/08/57feb212-6b30-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

[Wwcd]

1. He should have pointed to New York..

Cuz I don't believe a word he says.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Talk about a BULLSHIT lie......

Perhaps the FLOTUS does not want to be seen with the orange buffoon.

[C_U_L8R]

3. A little rough patch?? I'll say.

A four-hour surgery sure seems like something more than they've been advertising

[RockRaven]

4. I take issue with WaPo's headline. He didn't "reveal" it he "alleged" it.

Big difference. Stop presenting his statements as if they represent reality unless you have independent evidence that they are true.

[trof]

11. 'Zackly!

[Bengus81]

5. Biggest LIAR on EARTH...........

She's probably staying home to have meetings with her divorce lawyer.

[hlthe2b]

6. Physicians cast a bit of doubt on this explanation:

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2018-06-08/trump-says-first-lady-had-4-hour-operation

Doctors not involved in Mrs. Trump's care but familiar with the procedure said embolization most likely was used to remove a type of noncancerous kidney tumor called an angiomylipoma. Embolization is a minimally invasive procedure in which doctors snake a catheter into blood vessels of the kidney to find the right one that is feeding the tumor so they can block the flow of blood to the growth.

Dr. Lambros Stamatakis of MedStar Washington Hospital Center said embolization can take hours because of the time needed to find the right blood vessel. Trump's four-hour estimate could cover when his wife was wheeled off to receive anesthesia and time in the recovery room after she came to, Stamatakis said.

He said a procedure that can last a couple of hours on a "normal" patient could run longer on a VIP patient because doctors "may take a couple extra hours to make sure everything is as perfect as it possibly can be."

Stamatakis added that five days in the hospital may have been because the first lady was in a government hospital.

"The issue about flying, that is completely and utterly arbitrary," he said. Typically doctors might want a patient to stay nearby, rather than taking a far-away trip, in case they need follow-up care. But he said there's seldom a reason for a patient to avoid flying if the patient has left the hospital with no problems.

[lapfog_1]

10. I had a heart microwave ablation surgery to correct WPW

that took nearly 8 hours on the table... and used 7 different catheters going from major arteries in the neck and groin areas...

And after a night in the hospital (my insistence) was able to go home the next day and (carefully) climb two flights of stairs to my apartment where I rested for 3 more days.

At no time did any doctor tell me not to fly anywhere.... and I was back to work in under 4 days and was more or less normal in around 2 or 3 weeks.

I even managed to make an appearance at a good friends birthday party on the second day home (someone drove me to / from and I didn't stay very long).

[Mr.Bill]

22. Any doctor that says a VIP patient gets different care than a

"normal" patient is a piece of shit.

[Delphinus]

36. Thank you.

I took issue with that too.

[BHDem53]

7. The biggest operation ever.

It was yuuuuuge!

[C Moon]

15. :D

[CatMor]

8. So according to this doctor if you're a "VIP".....

you get better treatment than if you're a "normal" person. That statement really pissed me off.
This is in reference to reply #6

[hlthe2b]

13. yeah.. me too.

[Voltaire2]

17. Yeah they just poke around with a sharp stick.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Then use the "Reply to Post" attached to #6 so your thoughts maintain continuity. . . . nt

[CatMor]

20. I normally do and noticed my mistake later...

it doesn't seem to be that big a deal

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Good. You have the right idea and you're correct, it's not a big deal. Thanks. . . . nt

[Ilsa]

26. I need to be sure to tell my doctors I'm a vip.

I'm the niece of someone fairly important!

[Jerry Can]

37. Then you'll freeze your bollocks off ...

... laying about on the operating table while they go through the pre-op checklist six extra times just to be safe, and all0w you to stiffen up by not getting you walking as soon as possible.

[marble falls]

39. Your concerned with ilsa freezing her "bollocks off"? Isn't that a misplaced concern?

[tonekat]

30. Any doctor who adjust care for status

Shouldn't be in the field. Maybe they can find a job as a hedge fund manager.

[CatMor]

32. Amen, perfect reply.

[RainCaster]

9. It may have been a year of no fly

If she gets feisty.

[Achilleaze]

12. WTF kind of lies are republicans spouting now

Something stinks about the bullshit being spewed about republican Dirty Donny*s spousal unit.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Honeycombe8]

14. Replacement of implants, is my guess.

You can't fly for a month or so afterwards (I had a friend who had those instructions). She was all swollen and full of fluids, with drains sticking out of her and such...flying exacerbates that or something.)

Second is liposuction or tummy tuck (she has a tummy, which although I'd love to have a body like hers, to her I'm sure she'd consider it not up to par w/the rest of her body).

If she just had a cyst or something removed, I don't think that requires not flying for a month.

[marble falls]

16. I think he punched her in the face again after the initial "surgery" ....

cured her first black eye, allegedly. Allegedly.

The Orange Shitgibbon can do an amazing amount of damage with those tiny little fists.

Allegedly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Your bogus smears are beneath the standard of DU, I think. . . . nt

[marble falls]

33. Allegedly, allegedly. Aren't you and me and the Shitgibbon all three glad...

all that was a bogus smear? A genuine smear could have gotten me in trouble.

Allegedly.

Its good to know someone is allegedly looking out for the Shitgibbon's alleged honor. He's a public figure who puts his own crap out there on the street. He'd better be expecting a certain amount of crap back.

Its not as if I called him a secret Muslim with a bogus birth certificate veiling a foreign origin which of course is an example of a genuine smear.

[Mr.Bill]

23. So why didn't she go to

Camp David?

[truthisfreedom]

24. Obviously she begged the doctors for a break from shitgibbon.

[Corgigal]

25. No fucks available to give.

Gaslight all you want. You and your family aren't worth the resources you take from this planet.

The seal can play in her pool. As long as she can still put that ball on her nose on command.

Women should have self esteem, have humanitarian value. The sooner we all understand this, the safer we make it for generations to come. If we have that time.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

27. Listen up.

They finally showed the pictures on tv. The nudies...or close to nudies. If she's so inclined to do tht, then chances are better than not that she's a party girl. As such, I'm sure the dr was around long enough to have her on a class A oxycontin addiction.
Just speculation based on what IVE read, and seen.
We are talking about people who cannot say no to themselves. She's probably in treatment for drugs or a cosmetic tune up. Treatment for the first lady(?) but no treatment for people addicted to drugs coast to coast. Hey, let the good times roll if your'e a tr.

[keithbvadu2]

28. No fly? Great excuse to avoid being with cheating Donald.

[left-of-center2012]

29. For a benign 'thingy' most people have done in day surgery?

president said ... “She had a big operation. That was close to a four-hour operation.”

[Grammy23]

31. How would he know?

He was not even present during the surgery. He came to visit later that day or so we were told. So how “big” her surgery was could be another one of his whoppers.

Some people don’t fly soon after surgery because they fear blood clots. Maybe she was discouraged from taking such a long flight to Singapore. I’d skip it, too, if tRump was my spouse and I had to be cooped up on AF1 that long. There isn’t a plane in the world big enough to get her away from him.

Missing the Camp David Hoe Down was probably so the family could pow wow about how to handle the divorce proceedings. I have no love for Melania but if she has a lick of sense, she will divorce his sorry ass before he gets impeached and loses his ill gotten gains. Get out while she can.

[lanlady]

34. So sick of the Trumps and their goddamn chicanery

Just come out and tell the truth, goddamnit. What sort of goddamn surgery did your sad little wife have at taxpayer expense?? Why is this so goddamn difficult?

[TNNurse]

35. OK, I would NEVER defend this man.

However, there are some who recommend no flying for 6 weeks after laparoscopic surgery. They put some kind of gas into the abdomen to make room to do surgery and it is retained. Apparently flying might cause the gas to travel inside you inappropriately.

OR, it could just be one of his regular lies.

[Hugin]

38. I was wondering why we hadn't heard of her high tailing it to Mar-A-Lardo.

As they usually independently do when one or the other is indisposed with some boring G6 meeting or a funeral.

Her side piece must've been flown in to DC.