Melania Unable To Leave Hospital After Unexpected Events — Here’s What We Know
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It has been four days since First Lady Melania Trump was admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She was expected to return home to the White House by now, but apparently, some unexpected events have caused her to be unable to leave the hospital just yet. Here’s everything we know about the situation.
First Lady Melania Trump has been at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for four days, with no word on exactly when she will be released. A statement from the White House said she underwent an embolization procedure on Monday morning to treat a benign kidney condition, but this is usually an outpatient procedure, causing many to wonder why she has not yet returned home.
CNN reported, “Embolization ‘cuts off the blood supply to a certain part of the body,’ according to the National Institutes of Health. This procedure is mostly done as an outpatient, meaning the patient is discharged the same day.”
Adding to the public’s worries is the fact that President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that his wife “is doing really well” and would be leaving the hospital in “2 or 3 days” after her procedure. By that account, she should be back at the White House by now.
Additionally, Melania tweeted on Wednesday that she was “feeling great” and looking forward to getting home. So, what has changed between now and then? Why hasn’t Melania come home? Have complications arisen? Why is she still in the hospital?
According to Dr. Mohamad Allaf, vice chairman of urology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there could be a number of reasons for Melania’s prolonged stay. Dr. Allaf said the length of the first lady’s hospitalization is “somewhat atypical but not out of the question,” noting that it’s hard to tell absent more information about her. “It may be just out of an abundance of caution and privacy,” he said.
However, Allaf admitted that the extended length of Melania’s hospital stay “may imply that this is a little bit more of a complex situation” than previously thought.
“There are so many unknown factors about what was involved in the procedure [Melania had]. Was she under full sedation? There are many factors that could keep someone [in the hospital] a little longer,” said Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, a urological surgeon at Orlando Health.
Dr. Brahmbhatt said he would expect some patients to resume some regular activity the day after the embolization procedure, although they could still be in pain.
To discharge a patient, doctors typically look for three things: “They’ll be waiting to see how she eats. They’ll want her pain to be in control. They’ll want to make sure that the labs show she is stable. Once you meet those criteria, then we can send you home,” said Brahmbhatt.
This would suggest that the first lady does not meet at least one of these criteria at this time, so doctors have decided to keep her at the hospital a bit longer out of an abundance of caution. Perhaps she is not eating quite enough yet or she is in too much pain. Or, perhaps her labs have come back indicating that she is not totally stable.
Please continue to keep Melania Trump and the entire first family in your thoughts and prayers during this time. We wish her a speedy recovery and pray that she might return to the White House as soon as possible to be with her husband and their son Barron.