Kathie Lee Gifford has shared an update on her health after spending over a week in the hospital with a fractured pelvis.
The 70-year-old television personality revealed that she’s happy to be back home after being discharged from the hospital, where she suffered a fractured pelvis in two places during her recovery from hip replacement surgery.
“I’m doing well!” Gifford told ET. “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 Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending over a week in the hospital with a fractured pelvis; (seen in 2022)
Gifford revealed that as her recovery from hip replacement surgery progressed, she took on book signings and travel, which ultimately led to overexertion and physical strain.
“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,” she added. “Our bones, things like that, don’t heal for sometimes months — even though you feel so much better.”
The 70-year-old entertainer said she’s happy to be home after being discharged from the hospital, where she ended up with a fractured pelvis in two places during her recovery from hip replacement surgery; (seen in 2019)
The TV personality shared that she had a significant 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 sleep, I said, ‘Kathie, you did too much today. You’re hurting again where you haven’t been hurting.’ I said, ‘I’ll sleep it off.’ And so the next day, I did the signing [and] it went really, really well,” Gifford recalled.
To mark her success, she set up a girls’ day out. When her friend arrived and found herself locked out, she called Gifford. In Gifford’s haste to help, things went wrong.
“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,” she explained. “It’s my own fault. I should not have been in a hurry, you know? What am I in a hurry for?”
Now recovering at home, she’s committed to daily physical therapy.
“They gotta get you up and moving. You don’t want your bones to atrophy,” she 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.”
She’s also making sure to keep her spirits up during the vacation months.
“It’s summer for everybody but me,” Gifford told People on Tuesday. “But it’s OK. I’m going to get out to my little farm one of these days and stick my feet in my salt pool.”
‘I’m doing well!’ the star told ET . ‘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; (seen in 2018)
Gifford vowed to take life more slowly as she continues her recovery.
“The Lord is telling me it’s time to slow down. I’ve been running my whole life. The Lord is telling me, ‘You’ve planted a gazillion roses. Try smelling them.'”
Earlier this month, Gifford revealed that she had undergone a ‘total’ hip replacement surgery in June after suffering from ‘agonizing pain.’
“[My doctors] had been looking for the problem in my spine,” said Gifford on TODAY. “They finally found out what it was, and by that time, I’d been in such agonizing pain.”
After the successful surgery, Gifford said her doctor told her that she “had some of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.”
“It was terrible,” Gifford said of the ordeal. “You can’t fool your body, and it knows how old you are, and it knows where you’ve been.”