Jelena Batos Posts From Hospital After New Surgery
The former reality show contestant wrote from the hospital after another operation and admitted she almost backed out. Sources differ on which tumor was removed.
Jelena Batos, a former reality show contestant, had surgery this morning, October 15, and announced it herself on Instagram. She wrote from the hospital and admitted she almost did not go through with the operation.
Telegraf reports that she shared a video from the hospital and that she woke up after the procedure without complications. By her own account this is one more operation in a long series, with surgeries following one another over the past three years.
What Jelena wrote after the operation
In her post she thanked everyone who had cheered her on. Fear and exhaustion, she says, nearly stopped her.
I had my surgery early this morning. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on, because I almost didn’t go through with it. Some fear caught me, but mostly it was exhaustion, because how many times is this that I’ve had an operation in the last three years.
She went on to describe what was going through her mind before the procedure. The questions weighing on her were not medical ones.
A ton of questions were running through my head: Is this the last time I do this, did I tell my kids everything I have in my heart… Those questions are worse than the illness, at least for me. But here I am, we go on. It hurts, it hurts a lot, but it will pass. There is no option of giving up.
That is how Jelena put it in her post. Her words show that the pain is severe even after the procedure, but they do not say which tumor was operated on.
Which tumor was operated on?
Here the sources part ways. Telegraf writes that a tumor was removed from her head during the operation. That is the outlet’s claim, and Jelena does not specify the procedure in the words quoted above.
Kurir reports differently on the same post. According to that outlet, it was a tumor on the thyroid gland. Kurir says Jelena earlier described that tumor as hormonal in nature, not life threatening, and growing under the influence of stress. At first she tried to deal with it through alternative medicine, without pills. The tumor has since spread and reached her vocal cords and the main artery, so surgical removal, Kurir says, became unavoidable. The same outlet writes that she described this procedure as her mildest operation so far.
Until Jelena says more herself, two versions remain: the head according to Telegraf, the thyroid according to Kurir.
What is known about her earlier operations
Jelena Batos’s health problems are not new. Kurir recalls that a tumor in the bones of her head and a tumor on her thyroid were found earlier. She spoke publicly about the tumor in the bones of her head recently, and said then that she had felt no pain at all.
Telegraf reports that she also had earlier operations on her head. In the previous procedure the main tumor was removed, but four small grains of tissue remained in her cheek and under her eye. A metal implant and a prosthesis were fitted in her jaw.
According to the same source, in earlier statements Jelena stressed that she finds the greatest strength for the fight in her children. One of the lines in today’s post is about exactly that.
