Catherine Keyl (77) was incredibly fit: in her old age she beamed during every media appearance. But her life is now on track on hold. What is going on? “Is it her abdominal artery?”
Things are really going terribly bad for Catherine Keyl. We saw her more than ever on television last year, but that suddenly came to an end. The presenter has been forced to lie in bed for weeks. She can only get some yogurt from the refrigerator, but after ten steps she is already in pain.
Keyl mystery
Want to walk to the Albert Heijn? Not in it. A walk around the block when the sun is shining? Also not. Catherine can’t do anything anymore; her life stands still. The first diagnosis in Tergooi MC (a bursitis) resulted in treatment (cortisone injection) that had no effect. This week she went to the Bergman clinic for one second opinion.
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker finds it annoying that the injection has not yielded any results. He agrees Show news: “That’s quite a painful prick too, quite large. It didn’t help at all. It has actually been ailing in a very mysterious way for six weeks. She has a lot of pain in her hip.”
Second opinion
And what did they say in that second opinion? “She was there, she had a scan there, everything was examined and nothing came out. That of course makes it extra unpleasant. That you are in such pain that you even have to go to the hospital in a wheelchair. She can no longer drive a car. That you just don’t know what it is.”
What is the next step? “She will soon have another scan and then they hope that they can find something. You can’t do anything if you don’t have a diagnosis. When you have such pain it is very annoying.”
Abdominal artery
Many people sympathize with Catherine and the response forums are overflowing with well-intentioned medical advice. “These symptoms are very familiar to me,” says Mrs. Marita. “They operated on me five years ago for a blocked abdominal artery. I can do everything again now. Walking, cycling etc.”
According to this lady, Catherine must continue to do her best to keep the attention. “They then kept me on the line for three years with the advice to buy a wheelchair. Thanks to an alert GP, I was referred to the right doctor.”
Abdominal aneurysm
Another talks about an aneurysm, a dilation of the abdominal artery. “Twenty years ago a friend of mine walked around with the same ‘inexplicable complaint’ and it turned out to be a pain in her hip due to an abdominal aneurysm that was about to burst,” says Mr Gerard on NU.nl. “Good luck Catherine.”
A certain Pi thinks that Catherine should be screened for this immediately. “My girlfriend also suffered from that, five weeks later she was dead and that was really sad, may she rest in peace.”