Kathie Lee Gifford reveals she was hospitalized for a week after falling

Kathie Lee Gifford is recovering after falling and struggling a fractured pelvis.

The instructed that she was hospitalized for over every week after she fell. She mentioned that she’d moved “300 books on my own” throughout reserving signings in Nashville and “weakened her physique.”

“It’s my very own fault,” Kathie Lee, 70, mentioned, sharing that the next day, a pal picked her up and as she hurried out the door, she “simply tripped” and fractured her pelvis in two locations.

TODAY.com has reached out to Kathie Lee for remark.

The autumn and hospitalization comes as she has additionally been recovering from .

“It didn’t take a lot, as a result of I used to be weak in that spot,” Kathie Lee instructed the journal. “And the subsequent factor you realize, I’m again within the hospital with a fractured pelvis: the entrance and the again. That’s extra painful than something I went via with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful. however anyway, right here I’m.”

She mentioned that she determined to remain within the hospital for a full week for bodily remedy as a result of she didn’t “belief myself.”

“You suppose you realize your physique and the subsequent factor you realize, your physique adjustments once you become old,” she mentioned. “And as a lot as I don’t wanna give it some thought, I’m.”

Calling it a “humbling expertise,” she added that she should keep indoors this summer time.

“It’s summer time for everyone however me,” she mentioned. “Nevertheless it’s OK. I’m going to get out to my little farm considered one of lately and stick my ft in my salt pool. The Lord is telling me it’s time to decelerate. I’ve been operating my complete life. The Lord is telling me, ‘You’ve planted a gazillion roses. Strive smelling them.’”

Simply two weeks prior, earlier than revealing her pelvis fracture, in a July 17 TODAY look in regards to the “agonizing ache” she was in earlier than she underwent his alternative surgical procedure.

“They’d been on the lookout for the issue in my backbone. They lastly discovered what it was, and by that point, I’d been in such agonizing ache,” she recalled. “My physician completed the surgical procedure, got here in to inform me it went superbly, after which he mentioned, ‘Kathie, how have you ever been present all this time? (You had) a few of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.’”

On the time, Kathie Lee was selling her new e book, “,” in addition to spoke in regards to the “pleasure” of spending time together with her two kids and three grandchildren.”

“It’s so joyful to see your kids marry the individuals they love,” she . “After which construct a household of their very own, after which share their households, and so they let me come and go to in my very own home.”

In a further dialog with TODAY.com, Kathie Lee fawned over the best way her household resembled her late husband, Frank Gifford, whom she was earlier than his loss of life in 2015.

“All of them have the Frank Gifford chin,” . “It’s unbelievable. They’ve acquired the cleft. The DNA pressure from Frank Gifford is powerful. It’s very, very robust. And he was one of the vital attractive males that God ever made. So after all my kids are far more lovely than anyone else’s. Goes with out saying.”

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