the two most common reasons is a benign tumor or vascular malformation. you want to stop the blood going in. cut it off? right. you want to stop the blood flow. you could know you have it and not have a problem and then preeffortively do that. or you could have a bleed and urgently deal with it. again, we don t know which. so what would the prognosis usually be here? typically, it s very good. again, the white house was clear, this was a benign kidney condition. so this should be okay. just sometimes you might need o treat it. or she has the privilege of staying longer, she s the first lady. she has the right to stay. use insurance like the rest of us, hey, you get your two days for this, your three days for this. that s it. i guess the rules are thank you so much. appreciate it. and next, one of the few
has an easy and speedy recovery. what sanjay was talking about. obviously, he s the doctor here, but the point that he made as a layman, what i saw, and i m sure you did as well. the fact that they re saying it s benign and maybe trying to downplay it. but at the same time, she had surgery and has to stay in the hospital for several days many she s the first lady of the united states, she s at walter reed, it could just be precaution that they re keeping her there, at the end of the day, we don t know when they say benign kidney condition, what that means. the fact that they are disclosing this. it should be something we expect and we do expect of our leaders. doesn t always happen in this white house. so we re glad that we saw it we got it officially from the white house. and not having to dig it up
to spend in the hospital. this type of procedure, as you mentioned, an embolization procedure, it s not really surgery. it s basically threading this catheter near the kidney and injecting a glue-type substance to try and stop blood flow to an area of the kidney where the abnormality is. sometimes a procedure like that can even be done as an outpatient or an overnight stay. you worry about someone developing pain or having infection and you want to make sure that the procedure did the job that it was intended to do. but it does seem like a long time. i don t know if this is because she s the first lady, just an abundance of caution or why the longer stay. yeah, a lot of questions there. sanjay, the statement they put out was brief and obviously it lacked significant detail. certainly not explaining this very important point about the amount of time she may be hospitalized. why could that be? you know, i don t know. we ve been trying to figure that out as well.
we saw that during the clinton years, when hillary clinton and bill clinton went off to martha s vineyard and there was a dog and chelsea clinton in the middle. this is real. yes, she s the first lady of the united states, but she s dealing with real issues. now this rumor has been circulating for a long time and the washington post reported it. many of us have heard it. we have not had it substantiated. we have asked people, you need to take pictures, and no one has come up with pictures. but what s at issue? other presidents have had texture with their first ladies. i think about michelle obama, how barack obama and michelle obama, the first lady and former president of the united states, they would talk about having dinner with their children at night and then he would go back to work. and they would talk about the thorns and roses of the day. we would hear things like that, and then with george w. bush, we would hear how he would bring then first lady laura bush coffee in bed. we
underestimated. known as the enforcer. we know bush 43 called her the silver fox. right. you know, i think without barbara bush, there is no president george h.w. bush, and therefore no president george w. bush. when i said that around her, she squirreled her eyes. but she s the first lady of the greatest generation. they met three weeks after pearl harbor, not even thee weeks at the greenwich country club at a dance. she was wearing a red and green dress that caught poppy bush s eye. he asked to be introduced, and that s it. that was the whole thing. she married the only man she ever kissed as she likes to put it. cher childr her children want to throw up when they hear that. her legacy is wonderful. one side of that is in those