After having “total” hip replacement surgery not long ago, Kathie Lee Gifford is opening up about the experience.
The former co-host of Today revealed her painful experience learning the hard way that recuperating from a major surgery would be no picnic.
Among the most “painful situations” in her life, she described her rehabilitation as. Gifford, 70, suffered with chronic back discomfort for a while before seeing a specialist, who diagnosed it as spinal-related.
It was her spine that they were trying to diagnose, she told Today. “I had already been in excruciating pain by the time they figured out what it was.” She was scheduled for a hip replacement after physicians determined the cause of her discomfort.
“Kathie, how have you been existing all this time?’ My doctor asked me after the procedure, when he walked in to inform me that everything had gone swimmingly. Your hips were the most hideous thing I’ve ever seen.
