Kathie Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending more than a week in the hospital with a fractured pelvis.
The 70-year-old entertainer, who recently revealed why she was rejected for Charlie’s Angels, said she is happy to be home after being discharged from hospital, where she ended up with a fractured pelvis in two places during her recovery from hip replacement surgery.
“I’m fine!” the star said. AND“I’m happy to be out of the hospital. As nice as all those people are to me, they really took good care of me, but there’s no place like home.”
Gifford revealed that as her recovery from hip replacement surgery progressed, she began doing book signings and traveling, which eventually led to overexertion and excessive physical strain.
“This is what happens a lot of the time: you think you’re better, because you’re a lot better, and then you feel like you’re back to absolutely normal, but you’re not,” he added. “Our bones and things like that don’t heal until months later, even though you feel a lot better.”
Kathie Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending more than a week in the hospital with a fractured pelvis; (seen in 2022)
The 70-year-old entertainer said she is happy to be home after being discharged from the hospital, where she ended up with a pelvis fractured in two places during her recovery from hip replacement surgery; (seen in 2019)
The TV personality shared that she had a major signing event to promote her new book and managed to physically move 300 books in just a day and a half from her home.
“I knew that night when I went to bed, and I said, ‘Kathie, you’ve overdone it today. You’re in pain again that you never had before.’ I said, ‘I’m going to sleep it off.’ And so the next day, I signed it and it went really, really well,” Gifford recalled.
To celebrate her success, she organized a girls’ day out. When her friend arrived and found herself locked out, she called Gifford. In Gifford’s rush to help, things went wrong.
“I was going down the stairs and in my rush to get to my friend and get her out of the heat… I missed a step and fell,” she explained. “It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have been in a hurry, you know? Why am I in a hurry?”
He is now recovering at home and is committed to daily physical therapy.
“They have to get you up and moving. You don’t want your bones to atrophy,” he said. “It could be three months or, you know, just a month. Who knows? This time I just have to listen to them.”
He also makes sure to keep his spirits high during the holiday months.
“It’s summer for everyone but me,” Gifford said. People On Tuesday. “But that’s okay. One of these days I’m going to go to my little farm and put my feet in my salt pool.”
“I feel good!” the star told ET. “I’m happy to be out of the hospital. As nice as all those people are to me, they really took good care of me, but there’s no place like home.” (Seen in 2018)
Gifford revealed that as her recovery from hip replacement surgery progressed, she began doing book signings and traveling, which eventually led to overexertion and physical strain; (seen in April)
Gifford vowed to take it easy as she continues her recovery.
“The Lord is telling me it’s time to slow down. I’ve been running all my life. The Lord is telling me, ‘You’ve planted a bunch of roses. Try smelling them.'”
Earlier this month, Gifford revealed she had undergone “total” hip replacement surgery in June after suffering “agonizing pain.”
“(My doctors) had been looking for the problem in my spine,” Gifford said. TODAY“They finally figured out what it was and by that time I was in agonizing pain.”
After the successful surgery, Gifford said her doctor told her she “had one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.”
“It was terrible,” Gifford said of the ordeal. “You can’t fool your body, it knows how old you are and where you’ve been.”
She explained her recovery to PEOPLEadmitting to the media that it has been “one of the most painful situations of my entire life.”
Gifford’s surgeon told her her hips were “up to knots” and that her active lifestyle was to blame.
The day before her fall, Gifford explained that she had “weakened my body” by “moving 300 books by myself” while at a book signing in Nashville, Tennessee, seen in March.
“You climbed mountains, you made movies, you got on stage. You never took off your high heels and you kept going and that’s why you’re going through what you’re going through,” she recalls the surgeon telling her.
Although her recovery has been “really difficult,” Gifford said she has no regrets.
“(I wonder) would that change? No, I was doing what God put me on this earth to do,” he said.
‘During each year I did what He called me to do.’
