Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson also known as the Duchess of York’s daughter Princess Eugenice have a health problem that is quite tragic.
The younger daughter to the now divorced couple and 11th in line to the throne, Eugenie is married to Jack Brooksbank and has two children, August Philip Hawke and Ernest George Ronnie.
Eugenie had scoliosis and as a kid she had to have surgery so she wouldn’t suffer as much as an adult. She was first diagnosed at 12 when her mother noticed something amiss when she was swimming. She was taken to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital where she received the diagnosis. “[I was] told that I would need corrective surgery. This was, of course, a scary prospect for a 12-year-old; I can still vividly remember how nervous I felt in the days and weeks before the operation,” she said.
Princess Eugenie said that if she hadn’t had the surgery she wouldn’t look the way she did now, her back would be hunched over.
The surgery she had was actually a very complicated one called spinal fusion surgery where surgeons fuse implants like bone grafts, hooks, screws and steel rods with the spine to straighten it.
“My surgeons inserted eight-inch titanium rods into each side of my spine and one-and-a-half inch screws at the top of my neck,” she said in an essay she wrote for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
Even though the Princess isn’t experiencing any issues with her spine at the moment doctors are concerned about the longevity of some of the implants. Chiropractic care and conservative scoliosis treatment expert Tony Naldo said that the procedure can’t offer any guarantees that it will be successful at preventing progression but luckily in Eugenie’s case it has held up.
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