WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST KATIE HOPKINS for your major surgery today

Oh my goodness..............



KATIE HOPKINS: Today surgeons cut into my brain to try to cure my epilepsy. While I'm scared for my kids I'm not scared for myself because when your life could be short you live it loud and happy. So, bye for now. See you on the other side

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So it's time for the rubber to hit the road. 
In 30 minutes I go down for brain surgery - awake brain surgery - to try and cure me of the epilepsy which has plagued my life since I was 19. 
The odds aren't great. As my psych here tells me, the price you pay to enter the casino of neuro-surgery is uncertainty. I’m not sure if that makes me feel better or worse. 
But what I do know is that as it stands, one day my epilepsy will get the better of me. And I am not prepared to sit around and wait for that day to come. 
My children are 11, 10 and 7. I've waited. Waited until I feel they are old enough to be brave and smart enough to remember the things I want them to know. 
Like why girls are weird and why our most important job as a family is to stick together. How we are all different, but fitting in doesn't make better than the rest. Or how we need to laugh every day, because nothing matters so much that it can't be funny. 
Why you should never stand too close to people at cashpoints or be afraid to talk to the drunk man up the road. He has wisdom and is not afraid to share it. 
That verrucas eventually go away on their own and you never need to wear a weird white sock and look like a plonker. And why learning your spelling for homework is really important but that learning what those words mean matters more. 
And even if you can trick Grandma into thinking you have cleaned your teeth, you can't trick the dentist and he's the one with the pliers. 

You see, the beautiful thing about brain surgery is it gives you hope and perspective. Hope that things may be better. Perspective that most things in life don't matter so much at all. 

Standing on the high wire suspended between life and death, in the hands of the surgical gods, the problems of the world actually look quite small. 

I have a team of four surgeons, a jolly anesthetist who tells me I will definitely be asleep until I need to be awake, and some nurses who are going to put a catheter in as I sleep. 

I give them my thanks in advance and I am sorry I was never one for a wax..... 

There are ten of them in all. Scrubbed. Blue. Friendly. Sterile. 

There are risks of course. Risks of weakness on my left hand and left leg. But the team have programmed this into the software to mitigate these risks as they mine deep for the lesion in my head. 



The other risks come hand in hand with digging deep into my brain and cutting out the bit of me which I have always seen as a weakness, the thing I hid because I never wanted to be judged as less than the rest. 

The thing which saw me slung out of the army after completing the Commissioning Course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the reason why my arms have dislocated 42 times in three years. 

I always wanted to be the first female General. But I understand an epileptic with a rifle was never my finest idea. 

But I am grateful. Because so often in life, it is our weakness which make us tougher than the rest. 

The beautiful thing about brain surgery is it gives you hope and perspective. Hope that things may be better. Perspective that most things in life don't matter so much at all

If you can make it through and live a normal life - when your life is anything but normal - then you are winning every day. 

I am going down to the operating theatre now. 

Some of you will say it is Karma. It is not. It is epilepsy and I suggest you steer clear of the medical profession because your diagnosis is decidedly off.

I will have my head shaved, spend four to eight hours in theatre, and then 24 hours in intensive care.

But if the alternative is a life where someone can turn my lights out without warning at any time, then I am gambling to take back control of that switch.

My children don't want me to have an operation because they are scared for me. But I have said to them all: Don't be scared for me. I am not scared. I have lived a happy life, made complete by the three of you. 

I am lucky. I wake up every day feeling glad to be alive. And that is a gift not everyone has been given. 

I don't regret a single thing. Because when your life could be short you need to live it loud. And there is no time to waste looking back when there may not be a long time to look forward to. 

My children, your mum loves you. 

Wherever you are, I will always be just next door. 

I will see you on the other side.







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Preparing for surgery: Katie Hopkins is undergoing an operation to try and cure her of the epilepsy which has plagued her life since she was 19





Katie will have her head shaved, spend four to eight hours in theatre, and then 24 hours in intensive care

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Patricia, Ipswich, 8 minutes ago
I found this very moving and inspirational.















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TEDDY, london, United Kingdom, 8 minutes ago
Best of luck Katie















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Auborddelemer, Bideford, United Kingdom, 9 minutes ago
Hoping for the very best possible outcome for Katie Hopkins. Thank you Katie for having the courage to say what many others think. I look forward to hearing more of your musings when you have recovered.















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TEDDY, london, United Kingdom, 9 minutes ago
Best of luck Katie















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Sho-Bo, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 9 minutes ago
Good luck Katie. xxx















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I read last year that she was contemplating surgery for her epilepsy as it was so difficult to live with. Having read her article yesterday I did wonder if she was still going ahead with the surgery. What a brave woman, hope all goes well.

This is interesting because a few of the anti-convulsant drugs can cause anger and acting/speaking without care.

... Maybe, but that surely does not apply to the editors etc at the Daily Mail that allowed said article to be published.

I wish KH well. She's not everyone's cup of tea but fair play to her for saying what she did. That at this precise moment in time was probably the most that could get printed.

Wont be long now before every journo says their piece.

Imo.

Andrew wrote:... Maybe, but that surely does not apply to the editors etc at the Daily Mail that allowed said article to be published.

I wish KH well. She's not everyone's cup of tea but fair play to her for saying what she did. That at this precise moment in time was probably the most that could get printed.

Wont be long now before every journo says their piece.

Imo.

Hope you`re right Andrew - wouldn`t it be great if all the MSM did it at the same time - the Mcs couldn`t sue all of them, surely.

I must be a minority because I've always quite liked Katie Hopkins , yes some of the things she says are extreme , but she has the (metaphorical ) cojones to say them . I some times think she has an 'unusual ' sense of humour that people don't always get

I agree PMR. Some people get their underwear into such a twist over comments made by Katie Hopkins. If she annoys you, avoid her and the same goes for Internet bloggers.

I hope all goes well for Katie and she bounces back very soon.

This makes the timing of yesterday's article quite significant, I think. She says the operation is not without risk though I'm sure she'll come through fine, but it's easy to say that when you're not the one facing such a trauma. I daresay Katie feels very vulnerable and so the publication of her thoughts on the McCann case as the last thing she wrote before the op suggests these thoughts are important to her, preying on her soul and sense of duty and right. Her article today as she prepares for the operation describing the ethics she shows her children reveal her to actually be a very moral person, in my opinion.

Were her words yesterday thoughts she really felt she must share, despite the 'white-out', as she put it? Perhaps she felt she may not have the chance to blow the lid on this nasty affair at all if she didn't do so then.

She must certainly feel very strongly about the case. I bet this isn't her last word on the subject. Go Katie, and Get Well Soon, love.

Exactly what I thought Dee Coy!

PMR wrote:I must be a minority because I've always quite liked Katie Hopkins , yes some of the things she says are extreme , but she has the (metaphorical ) cojones to say them . I some times think she has an 'unusual ' sense of humour that people don't always get

On the odd occasion I have agreed with KH but only rarely. Just because you think something doesn't always mean you should say it. She makes her living by being controversial which I think she has developed as a USP. It's an affectation. She isn't without intelligence, she just doesn't possess a filter.
For example
On Ebola:
"Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?"
"Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket."

Or

Suicidal prisoners should just kill themselves"

Or

[She gained] two stone and looked pretty hideous"
Katie, 38, who was on The Apprentice in 2006, wrote in a magazine that Lily Allen was “kind of interesting” until she had children.

She added: “She was removing herself from the spotlight because she wanted to be a mother.

"It largely involved gaining two stone and looking pretty hideous.”

Lily, 28, who suffered two miscarriages before giving birth to twin daughters Ethel and Marnie, 13 months, hit back: “Yes, after tragically losing a child so late in my pregnancy, I may have gained a few pounds.

"I am one of many that find comfort in food.

The Smile singer added: “I wasn’t exercising because I didn’t want to take any risks.

"The survival of my children felt more important than being thin.”

Not funny or clever.

Mimi wrote:This is interesting because a few of the anti-convulsant drugs can cause anger and acting/speaking without care.

As Mimi said, there may be a reason for some of KH's ill-advised comments.

As regards the Lily Allen one (whose children aren't twins, by the way), I feel that only Lily herself had the right to take the matter up with Katie. Does she need other people to spit venom on her behalf? I don't think so.

This subject is a little sensitive for me because of unpleasant memories of thankfully departed posters here who wanted to deny others the freedom of speech.

I have never disliked KH she speaks her mind which I do admire. And what with freedom of speech she has that right. If I don't like what she is saying I just switch off. The article yesterday, for whatever the reason, has to have resulted in a plus for this case. She is one
intelligent woman she knows with the little hints she dropped people will research more.

I didn't know of the comments about Lily Allen until now and I certainly don't blame her for retaliating. I still feel that it isn't for anyone else to leap into the fray with all guns blazing though.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/katie-hopkins-theres-always-plastic-surgery-ya-know-lily-allen-reacts-to-katie-hopkins-comments-that-9106873.html#

Freedom wrote:

Mimi wrote:This is interesting because a few of the anti-convulsant drugs can cause anger and acting/speaking without care.

As Mimi said, there may be a reason for some of KH's ill-advised comments.

As regards the Lily Allen one (whose children aren't twins, by the way), I feel that only Lily herself had the right to take the matter up with Katie. Does she need other people to spit venom on her behalf? I don't think so.

This subject is a little sensitive for me because of unpleasant memories of thankfully departed posters here who wanted to deny others the freedom of speech.

But it's not about that Freedom. I suppose we all react to the things that cause us to shudder but may not bat an eyelid when it doesn't affect us. For example, I would personally punch anyone who said something like "disabled kids should be guillotined," as some twat said the other day. It affects me because of my family situation, but it is also ignorant and ill-informed. I have the right through freedom of speech to call him out for it. On the other hand KH saying she wouldn't let her kids play with kids with certain names wouldn't offend me in the least, even if I had a child with such a name. It is so snobbish that it is ridiculous.

Freedom wrote:I didn't know of the comments about Lily Allen until now and I certainly don't blame her for retaliating. I still feel that it isn't for anyone else to leap into the fray with all guns blazing though.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/katie-hopkins-theres-always-plastic-surgery-ya-know-lily-allen-reacts-to-katie-hopkins-comments-that-9106873.html#

Who leapt in with guns blazing?

ETA I was delighted she brought up the McCanns even though it did seem to support the abduction theory. At least she git some good points in. I might not like her much but I really do hope she comes through her surgery and gets the result she hopes for. She is brave for taking it on and her thoughts on her children were a million times more heartfelt and motherly than a certain cold, unfeeling person we all know. Good luck Katie.

I presumed there were a lot of people who objected violently to what she'd said? That's all I meant.

I didn't hear about this at the time it happened but there must have been a lot of comments about it.

Katie Hopkins @ KTHopkins - 3hr.
A tweet from the High Dependency Unit to give you bad news.
Even 12 hours in surgery and the removal of part of my brain
has not shut me up.

costello wrote:Katie Hopkins  @ KTHopkins - 3hr.
A tweet from the High Dependency Unit to give you bad news.
Even 12 hours in surgery and the removal of part of my brain
has not shut me up.

Thanks Costello, been waiting for an update on her op. Glad she seems ok -  She sounds great

'The bad news is even 12 hours of brain surgery hasn't shut me up': Katie Hopkins already back Tweeting from her hospital bed the day after serious op to cure her epilepsy
Katie Hopkins underwent brain surgery on Monday in bid to cure epilepsy
The operation normally takes up to 8 hours, Katie was out for 12 hours
But tests have come back positive and she is feeling great, her agent says
The 41-year-old mother-of-three is recovering in intensive care



Published: 00:23, 24 February 2016  | Updated: 07:02, 24 February 2016


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