Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome The Mother Knows Death. We have a
Speaker 1: special breaking news episode for you guys.
Speaker 2: We have an update on Kate Middleton and she has
Speaker 2: come out that she has been diagnosed with cancer and
Speaker 2: is currently undergoing chemotherapy, which is why we have not
Speaker 2: seen her. So what are your thoughts on this? All?
Speaker 1: Right? So, I've been thinking this from the beginning, trying
Speaker 1: to think of why they would say that she specifically
Speaker 1: had abdominal surgery, and that is I'm assuming that that
Speaker 1: covers anywhere where they made an incision on her from
Speaker 1: underneath of her sternum, so right below her ribs down,
Speaker 1: and that would include basically all of the organs that
Speaker 1: aren't included in the chest cavity. So we're talking about
Speaker 1: a majority of the GI system, which is the stomach,
Speaker 1: small bell, large intestine, and we're also talking about the
Speaker 1: pancreas is in there, the kidneys are in there. But
Speaker 1: if I were to guess, I would say that a
Speaker 1: woman of her age, how she's she's forty two, she's
Speaker 1: forty two, I would say that it's some kind of
Speaker 1: gynecological cancer. Now, the reason I'm saying that is because
Speaker 1: she could have potentially had a surgery planned where she
Speaker 1: was getting hysterectomy just for abnormal bleeding or something, or
Speaker 1: she could have had fibroids and that would have been
Speaker 1: a planned thing, so they say planned versus not planned.
Speaker 1: A not planned surgery would be if you're appendix burst
Speaker 1: and you had to get emergency surgery. So this was
Speaker 1: something that they found that they were going to do
Speaker 1: surgery on, but they were able to plan it in advance,
Speaker 1: so they could have taken out her uterus, which would
Speaker 1: come along with your cervix and your Filippian tubes ovaries,
Speaker 1: and it would have gotten sent to pathology, and then
Speaker 1: during examination of pathology, that's when they could have found
Speaker 1: the cancer. So in that a woman of her age,
Speaker 1: she could have cervical cancer, which is probably more unlikely
Speaker 1: just because I'm assuming she's getting regular PAP testing, but
Speaker 1: it is it is a possibility. Anything's a possibility. She
Speaker 1: also could have had fibroids, which are also called liomiomas,
Speaker 1: which are benign tumors of the muscle, and when they
Speaker 1: look at them at imaging, they you know, they're almost
Speaker 1: all the time benign anyway, but sometimes you take them
Speaker 1: out and they end up being a loomiosarcoma, which is
Speaker 1: a little bit more rare. Any sarcoma would be a
Speaker 1: little bit more rare. Also, she could have presented with
Speaker 1: an ovarian cyst, and that cyst could have looked kind
Speaker 1: of benign on imaging, but then when they looked at
Speaker 1: it in pathology it could end could it end up
Speaker 1: up being some kind of a cancer. So again this
Speaker 1: is just me assuming, and that's based upon the most
Speaker 1: common things that would happen in a woman of her age.
Speaker 1: Obviously breast cancer and skin cancer is also a thing,
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking that it was some kind of internal
Speaker 1: organ thing, just based upon what they're saying, and the
Speaker 1: fact that she's getting chemo to me, means that it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive than just an early finding
Speaker 1: of a cancer, like a stage one of something that's
Speaker 1: just general. But sometimes when they find a cancer that's
Speaker 1: stage one and they're able to cut it all out
Speaker 1: right away, they wouldn't do chemotherapy. So the fact that
Speaker 1: they are means to me that it might be a
Speaker 1: little bit more of an advanced stage. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if they follow a different protocol for a princess.
Speaker 1: But this is just my thoughts. Now, obviously it could
Speaker 1: be a variety of other things too, because there's so
Speaker 1: many other things that could happen. Lymphomas, a pancreat assists
Speaker 1: that ended up being cancer or something like that. But
Speaker 1: just going on most common, I would say ginicle logical,
Speaker 1: or we could also say like a colon cancer of
Speaker 1: some sort. Now, one of my earlier theories was that
Speaker 1: she possibly had inflammatory bowel disease, some kind of ulcerat
Speaker 1: of colitis or Crone's disease, and if she had a
Speaker 1: bowel resection for that. There's also possibility, because these patients
Speaker 1: are at an increased USK for colon cancer, that they
Speaker 1: incidentally found something like that too while they were examining,
Speaker 1: especially ulcerative colitus patients. So that being said, that's my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the Palace released an official video earlier today. It
Speaker 1: has her doing talking directly to camera, explaining what's been
Speaker 1: going on with her. You know, they've been pretty sloppy
Speaker 1: with Ai in the past couple of weeks, so I
Speaker 1: don't think it's Ai.
Speaker 2: I watched it. I think it's her. I think she
Speaker 2: also looks like she's been through some shit, so it's
Speaker 2: it's definitely really sad that it turned out this way.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll ever release to us what
Speaker 2: kind of cancer it is. I mean, we still don't
Speaker 2: really know definitely what kind of cancer Charles has as well,
Speaker 2: So it's really sad. And maybe they felt the need
Speaker 2: to hide this because they didn't think people could handle
Speaker 2: the King and the princess both having cancer at the
Speaker 2: same time, which is really unfortunate for their family. And
Speaker 2: it's just really sad to see. And you know, we
Speaker 2: just want to wish her the best recovery possible because
Speaker 2: it sucks. And you know, she talked about having to
Speaker 2: tell the kids, and we were just saying, how absolutely
Speaker 2: horrible that must be to have to tell your young
Speaker 2: children you're going through this. Well, yeah, and I was
Speaker 2: even saying that because she's she's around my age, you know.
Speaker 2: And I said to Maria, if I got diagnosed with
Speaker 2: cancer right now, I'm not sure that I would tell
Speaker 2: the little kids, to be honest with you, unless it
Speaker 2: was like on a need to know basis, just because
Speaker 2: kids don't really understand that. And I think her kids
Speaker 2: are even younger than my little the little ones. So
Speaker 2: but then Maria had a point like if she has
Speaker 2: to come public with it. The whole world's going to know,
Speaker 2: and they wanted to. Maybe that's why they were waiting
Speaker 2: so long to make to issue a statement, because they
Speaker 2: knew they were going to have to tell their kids
Speaker 2: and they just were trying to hold off on it.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure. I mean, kids aren't stupid. They know
Speaker 1: that something that something's open.
Speaker 2: And personally, I think it's better to hear directly from
Speaker 2: your parent than to hear it from somebody off on
Speaker 2: the side, you know what I mean. You don't want
Speaker 2: to hear something like that, especially if you're a little
Speaker 2: kid and not fully understand it. You at least want
Speaker 2: to know if you're going to be told at some
Speaker 2: point that hey, I'm going through this as your parent,
Speaker 2: and I might not be there. I might be sick
Speaker 2: and can't do everything and be there for you one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. But she's let everybody knows she's going to
Speaker 2: be okay. I mean, we don't know the full extent
Speaker 2: of it, but it's definitely said.
Speaker 1: I definitely think there's a lot of strategic wording here
Speaker 1: when they keep just saying abdominal surgery and and like
Speaker 1: I said, if it is a gynecological cancer. That's technically
Speaker 1: the pelvic cavity, but I would say abdomen just because
Speaker 1: that's where they would do the you know, they do
Speaker 1: incisions on the skin there. I just think they're very
Speaker 1: they're being very strategic about how they are saying it
Speaker 1: because they want to make sure that people like me
Speaker 1: aren't speculating, because definitely, like an ovarian cancer would be
Speaker 1: very significant to know what the stage of that is,
Speaker 1: because that could be very serious, and there's other cancers
Speaker 1: that aren't as aggressive. So I think that that that
Speaker 1: could be a possibility. Why they're why they're holding back
Speaker 1: with that, And I also just want to say that
Speaker 1: that she's only forty two years old, and there there's
Speaker 1: been all these studies done recently. It's been in the
Speaker 1: news a lot that there's been a thirty percent increase
Speaker 1: in cancer and young people from the age of fifteen
Speaker 1: to thirty nine years old, and that increase has started
Speaker 1: from was looked at in statistics between nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: and twenty and fifteen, and it's clearly happening. We're hearing
Speaker 1: about this all the time of really young people getting
Speaker 1: breast cancer, colon cancer, and I mean Ovarian cancer certainly
Speaker 1: is nothing new. Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer a
Speaker 1: very young age, so that's a known and been that's
Speaker 1: been a thing for a long time. But it just
Speaker 1: does make you wonder what are we being exposed to
Speaker 1: That the increase of cancer and younger people has increased
Speaker 1: thirty percent since the seventies. That's just so striking, right,
Speaker 1: and it has to be what we're all eating, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's scary to think. You know, they are
Speaker 2: everyday people, but they also have access to some of
Speaker 2: the best healthcare in the world. So you have to
Speaker 2: wonder if she was a normal person in this position,
Speaker 2: would she be able to get healthcare of this level
Speaker 2: or be able to treat something like this. We just
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if we're ever gonna find out,
Speaker 1: but I just obviously it is if. And then we
Speaker 1: also have to say we're believing her at her word
Speaker 1: in what she's saying. But obviously, if she went in
Speaker 1: and she had something, she had something, because they scheduled
Speaker 1: her for surgery and they thought whatever that something was
Speaker 1: was a benign condition, and then they sent it to
Speaker 1: pathology and then they found out it wasn't a benign condition,
Speaker 1: and that happens every single day to people. It's not
Speaker 1: like all we can do before a surgery is done
Speaker 1: is do imaging on a person. And it's funny because
Speaker 1: in pathology we always say that radiology is kind of
Speaker 1: like the weather man. It's like they sometimes they give
Speaker 1: these diagnoses like could be infectious, could be benign, could
Speaker 1: be malignant. You're like, oh cool, so you know it
Speaker 1: could snow, it could rain, it could be sunny, Like
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter because you could just say whatever, right,
Speaker 1: But I mean, imaging is so good, but it also
Speaker 1: has its limitation, and it's not as good as looking
Speaker 1: at a piece of it under the microscope. And especially
Speaker 1: with things like fibroids, that are they they all look
Speaker 1: a certain way on imaging, and then sometimes we get
Speaker 1: it and we look at it with our naked eye
Speaker 1: and we're like, eh, something looks a little weird here,
Speaker 1: And then you look at it under the microscope and
Speaker 1: it tells a whole different picture. And sometimes even us
Speaker 1: when we look at gross pathology, we look at the
Speaker 1: organs and we can't even tell that it looks cancerous,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, under the microscope. You know,
Speaker 1: it'll be a couple of days later and the patholo
Speaker 1: just to'll come in and be like, do you remember
Speaker 1: that colon you did a couple of days ago. It
Speaker 1: looks weird, and we'll pull it back out and we'll
Speaker 1: look at it again and we'll take more samples of it.
Speaker 1: So this is this is just kind of the norm
Speaker 1: in our world.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, I
Speaker 2: feel like there's definitely some more going on and that
Speaker 2: they don't want to reveal, and they definitely don't have
Speaker 2: to it just that she's going through all of this
Speaker 2: and we just have to wish her the best recovery possible.
Speaker 2: I mean, I.
Speaker 1: Feel freaking terrible for her. When when she was sitting there,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Like well, like I don't know, because you know, we
Speaker 2: contributed a little bit to the theories and everything over
Speaker 2: the last couple of months on here, but it is
Speaker 2: terrible that they're making this woman have to take this video.
Speaker 2: You know, if if they just chilled out on all
Speaker 2: their weird photoshop pictures, nobody would be thinking this weird.
Speaker 1: We are not contributing. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: argue with you there, I'm not contributing to rumors. I'm
Speaker 1: just speculating on her health. I'm not sitting there saying
Speaker 1: all the other stuff about the cheating into this and
Speaker 1: the that.
Speaker 2: I'm like saying, if the palace just had any chill
Speaker 2: at all and just didn't you know, they said she
Speaker 2: wouldn't be out till Easter. Nobody really thought anything of
Speaker 2: it until they started doing weird things. If they just
Speaker 2: left it at that, Yeah, wouldn't have to be sitting
Speaker 2: on a bench explaining that she's going through chemo and.
Speaker 1: To leave her alone. Yeah, I mean it. Listen, from
Speaker 1: the beginning, it was clear that something serious was up.
Speaker 1: Because when you get surgery, like my little nephew, I
Speaker 1: guess I will call him, even though he's not really
Speaker 1: my blood nephew, Johnny. This is my friend Laura's kid, Johnny.
Speaker 1: This kid was born with he had a hole in
Speaker 1: his heart, and he was born and he had to
Speaker 1: get it repaired. When he was about five years old.
Speaker 1: This kid had his chest cracked, open heart surgery, and
Speaker 1: he was up and sitting and eating in bed the
Speaker 1: next day and he was home within a week. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they do some crazy surgeries now, and people are
Speaker 1: ready to go fairly soon afterwards. I know, even when
Speaker 1: I had my Tommy tuck done, within a week after surgery,
Speaker 1: I had flew home and I was going to Gabe's
Speaker 1: graduation at Georgetown with my kids on the Amtrak train.
Speaker 1: So I mean I felt like shit, trust me. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that for her to be out for months,
Speaker 1: she had to be healing from something serious. Now, if
Speaker 1: she had, I guess another theory you could say is
Speaker 1: if she had some kind of a pancreatic lesion or something.
Speaker 1: Sometimes some of those surgeries, or a lesion in the liver,
Speaker 1: they could be even a little bit more intense to
Speaker 1: heal from because they're reworking the GI track a little
Speaker 1: bit so it Or she could have had a piece
Speaker 1: of bowel cut out too from from whatever pathology they
Speaker 1: thought was going on in her ballot, and then had
Speaker 1: to get a temporary bag and get it replaced again afterwards.
Speaker 1: So all of this stuff takes time and she needs
Speaker 1: to heal. And that's I mean, anybody that's done done
Speaker 1: anything medical knows that something's up with her, because why
Speaker 1: would you need four months to recover from anything? Unless
Speaker 1: it was super serious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. So I don't know, like I'm curious if
Speaker 2: they're gonna give us more information about it or if
Speaker 2: they're just kind of gonna leave it at this and
Speaker 2: then force her to go out in the public in
Speaker 2: a couple months.
Speaker 1: So thanks for being here with us today, guys. We
Speaker 1: just couldn't wait until the end of next week to
Speaker 1: discuss this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just literally about to walk out the door of
Speaker 2: the office today and then we were like, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, we have to talk about this. So thanks.
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