After a couple of mysterious TikTok posts, former reality star Kate Gosselin has revealed exactly what landed her in the hospital and had her begging for prayers.
A game of catch with her dog Meika resulted in a bone break that required three hours of surgery and left Gosselin with a leg full of pins and plates, she revealed on TikTok Tuesday evening.
She and her boyfriend, Steve, were playing ball with her dogs, and Meika was there for it — to a fault. Running for the ball, the exuberant black German Shepard pup slammed squarely into her mama.
“I tried to get out of the way, and she ran into the side of my leg, my knee, at top speed,” Gosselin recounted, “like a concrete wall running at the speed of light.”
@kate.gosselin Live from the hospital tonight at 8:30 pm EST . And for the record, my nasal cannula is actually a nasal canial, not earphones! 🤣 just call me Hospital Bobette 🤣🤣🤣 (if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry… again!) see you tonight!
Gosselin crumpled to the ground in excruciating pain and “felt stuff move in my leg” when she tried to get up. An urgent care clinic sent her straight to the hospital, where a surgeon informed her she had suffered a “life-altering” tibial plateau fracture. That’s the cartilage-coated top of the shinbone that meets the knee, and it normally takes severe trauma such as a car accident to break it, according to medical experts. It accounts for just 1% of all fractures, notes WebMD, and can take months to heal.
On Tuesday Gosselin posted a photo on TikTok of herself hooked up to IVs in a hospital, captioned with a plea for prayers amid assurances that she’d be fine. Later, she said they had worked.
“CANNOT thank you enough for all your prayers!” she wrote. “Love you guys!”
