Kathie Lee Gifford Shares Update After Being Hospitalized for Pelvis Fracture
Kathie Lee Gifford is providing an update after her recent injury.
Earlier this week, the 70-year-old TV personality revealed that was hospitalized for a week after fracturing her pelvis in two places. The fracture came as she recovered from a recent hip replacement surgery back in June.
Now that she’s home from the hospital, Kathie shared an update on how her recovery is going.
Keep reading to find out more…“I’m doing well!” Kathie shared with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m happy to be out of the hospital. As lovely as all those people are to me, they really took good care of me, but there’s no place like home.”
Kathie went on to share some details on how she injured herself, saying that after the hip replacement surgery, she began traveling and doing book signings for her new book, Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior, she overexerted herself and weakened her body.
“This is what happens most of the time — you think you’re better, because you are so much better, and then you feel like you’re back to absolute normal, and you’re not,” Kathie said. “Our bones, things like that, don’t heal for sometimes months — even though you feel so much better.”
Kathie went on to say that she “had a big signing” event coming up and she moved “moved 300 books in about a day in a half here at my home.”
“I knew that night, when I went to sleep, I said, ‘Kathie, you did too much today. You’re hurting again where you haven’t been hurting,’” Kathie recalled. “I said, ‘I’ll sleep it off.’ And so the next day, I did the signing [and] it went really, really well.”
Kathie then made plans with a friend to go out the next day for a girls day out, and she ended up tumbling down the stairs when her friend arrived at her house.
“On the way down [the stairs] and in my eagerness to get to my friend and get her out of the heat… I missed a step and I went tumbling,” Kathie explained. “It’s my own fault. I should not have been in a hurry, you know? What am I in a hurry for?”
After spending a week in the hospital for the pelvis fracture, Kathie is back home and doing physical therapy every day.
“They gotta get you up and moving. You don’t want your bones to atrophy,” Kathie said. “It can be anywhere from three months to, you know, just a month to who knows? I just have to listen to them this time.”
Earlier this year, Kathie revealed the joked about the one condition it would take for her to star in a season of The Golden Bachelorette!