Does Anyone Else Find the Melania Kidney Thing a bit Hinky?

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61. Kidney transplants mean 2-3 days in the hospital.

The operation takes 2-3 hours. Recovery time in the hospital is typically 1-3 days. Donors often are able to return to work as soon as 2-3 weeks after the procedure.

Occasionally the kidney needs to be removed through an open incision in the flank region. Prior to the use of the laparoscopic technique, this surgery was the standard for the removal of the donated kidney. It involves a 5-7 inch incision on the side, division of muscle and removal of the tip of the twelfth rib. The operation typically lasts 3 hours and the recovery in the hospital averages 4-5 days with time out of work of 6-8 weeks.

Although laparoscopy is increasingly used over open surgery, from time to time, the surgeon may elect to do an open procedure when individual anatomic differences in the donor suggest that this will be a better surgical approach.

https://transplant.surgery.ucsf.edu/conditions--procedures/living-donor-kidney-transplant.aspx

Of course, maybe she is having some other kind of treatment.

I hope she gets well soon.