The television personality said the recovery was one of the most painful situations of my entire life.
Gifford, 70, called the recuperation one of the most painful situations of my entire life.
“It’s been really hard,” she said.
Credit:Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
“They had been looking for the problem in my spine,” she recalled.
(You had) some of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.'"
Despite that, Gifford said she “jumped off that gurney after my surgery.”
I walked, I climbed, I walked, and my doctor said, Kathie, no.
You have got to realize that this is serious, she toldPeople.
And I was off my walker in two days.
I was off all my medications in three days, and then I did too much.
I just did too much because that’s who I am.
I started carrying books around and signing and getting ready, andmy grandchildrencame to visit, she said.
And you’re able to’t.
I have learned from this that you only can only do so much.
You’re just human.
You’re just human.
And I’m so grateful.
Gifford toldPeoplethat an active lifestyle and decades of hard work had whittled her hips down to nubs.
You climbed mountains, you made movies, you got on stages… she recalled her surgeon telling her.
Even now, Gifford said she has no regrets.
[I ask myself] would I change that?
No, I was doing what God put me on this earth to do.
Every year of it, I was doing what He called me to do," she toldPeople.
