Jill Duggar: Son"s Secret Medical Crisis Revealed!

Jill Duggar has been a reality TV star since childhood.

As such, she’s accustomed to sharing just about everything with her family’s massive fan base.

But there are some things that even Jill would prefer to keep private.

When Jill welcomed her second child back in July of 2017, she waited several weeks before posting a photo.

Now, fans believe they know why.

Jill’s husband, Derick Dillard, posted the above photo on his Instagram page this week as part of a montage celebrating his mother’s birthday.

Fans were shocked by the never-before-seen image of baby Samuel hooked up to wires with tubes coming out of his nose.

Some of Derick’s followers were deeply concerned by what they saw.

Others insisted that while they’re certainly unsettling, such scenes are not uncommon.

“That is a tube to suction fluid out of the lungs,” commented one fan.

“When babies are born by C-section the fluid does not get pushed out by contractions. It is normal to have to get this out, not a complication. Happened with both my C-section babies.”

Others continue to suspect that Samuel experienced serious health problems from birth and that the Duggars did their best to downplay the severity of the situation.

“Omg poor Samuel, feeding tube and oxygen. Don’t think he was as healthy at birth as you said originally,” one of Derick’s followers wrote.

At the time of Samuel’s birth, the Duggars did reveal that he was born via C-section following a difficult and complicated labor.

“After 40 hours of labor, he was delivered via C-section at the hospital,” the family revealed in a statement released just after the birth.

“Thank you for your continued prayers and support!”

“His birth didn’t go as expected,” Jill later stated in an interview with People magazine.

In all likelihood, fans will never know exactly how serious Samuel’s health problems were at the time of his birth.

Derick Dillard has been fired by TLC as a result of some controversial public statements, and it appears as though his family will be leaving the spotlight along with him.

So going forward, the only source of information about the Dillard family will be the Dillards themselves.

Watch Counting On online to relive how Jill and Derick got to where they are today.

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Charlie Gard, the British baby who had been at the center of a high-profile legal battle over his medical care, has passed away.

He was only 11 months old.

The child was born with a rare genetic condition and spent a majority of his life in the hospital.

Charlie’s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, fought a lengthy and emotional legal battle to take their severely ill son to the United States for treatment, a move that was eventually denied by judges.

The tragic case made global headlines, with President Donald Trump Tweeting about it just a few weeks ago.

This is what he wrote at the time:

Pope Francis also weighed on the debate, with the Vatican saying the pontiff prayed for the parents and “their wish to accompany and treat their child until the end is not neglected.”

Around the globe, a countless number of supporters made their voices heard, earning the nickname “Charlie’s Army” in the process.

They raised over 1.35 million pounds online, but were unable to influence the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court… all of which ruled life support treatment should end and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.

He passed away while in a hospice facility.

The couple ended its legal battle on July 24, in what they referred to as the “most painful of decisions.”

An end-of-life plan for baby Charlie was then approved on Thursday by High Court judge Nicholas Francis.

Gard was born on August 4 and inherited the faulty RRM2B gene that affects the cells responsible for energy production and respiration, leaving him unable to move or breathe unaided.

His parents yearned to give him experimental, unproven nucleoside therapy, provided by American neuroscientist Michio Hirano.

Throughout the lengthy legal process – which saw an appeal rejected the European Court of Human Rights – physicians at Great Ormond Street maintained this treatment had little chance of success.

They said it would kinder for life support to be switched off.

Upon confirming the passing of her son, Connie simply wrote, “Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud of you Charlie.”

May he rest in peace.

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Abby Lee Miller: Prison Sentence DELAYED Due to Medical Issue!

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Last month, Miller was sentenced to a year in prison on fraud charges.

In the weeks since the verdict was delivered, the controversial television personality has lashed out against the judge, played dumb about her crimes, and pled innocence as a “nice Catholic girl from Pittsburgh.”

(Are people from Pittsburgh known for their inability to commit bankruptcy fraud? We’re not really sure what she was going for with that one.)

Anyway, none of that has done Miller any good in terms of getting out of serving her time.

Eventually, the widely despised 50-year-old will be going to prison.

But that doesn’t mean she can’t delay the inevitable for a few weeks.

According to Radar Online, Miller was originally supposed to report to prison on June 30.

Now, she’s scheduled to begin serving her sentence on July 12.

No reason was given for the delay, and Miller has been uncharacteristically quiet about the change.

She may be legally prohibited from discussing the specifics of the delay, but that hasn’t stopped her from hinting at the court’s reasoning on social media.

Miller has posted a series of photos on her Instagram page that seem to hint at some sort of knee ailment.

The pic below shows an x-ray that seems to indicate Miller is missing caritlage in her right knee:

“Bone on Bone! X-ray Right knee – That kinda hurts a little OUCH! #marinadelrey #discsportsandspinecenter #aldcalways #aldcla #ALDC,” Miller captioned the pic.

Obviously, Miller won’t be able to undergo and recover from knee surgery in less than two weeks’ time.

What’s more likely is that her lawyers convinced the judge to delay the start of her sentence so that she can undergo further medical evaluation.

That would explain why Miller is so keen on playing up her injuries on social media.

If she’s able to convince the court that she requires surgery, she may be able to push her sentencing back several months.

Perhaps Miller even hoping that given more time, her lawyers will be able to successfully appeal her conviction.

It’s a long shot, but we suppose we can’t blame her.

At the end of the day, however, her latest ploy seems unlikely to change anything.

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Earlier today we reported that adult film company Vivid is promising new Kim Kardashian sex tape footage to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the video’s release.

Of course, the now-infamous clip didn’t just introduce Kim to the mainstream, it also made an overnight star out of her ambitious “momager,” Kris Jenner.

Despite what a surprising number of fans were hoping for, the lost footage does not show Ray J peeing on Kim, but this is 2017, so you still won’t be getting out of this day without a Kardashian-related pee story:

According to Radar Online, Kris Jenner is having difficulty, um … holding her water.

The Kardashians aren’t huge on privacy, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the family’s reality shows have mined Kris’ weakening bladder for comedic purposes.

But it seems the problem may be more serious than Kris and company are letting on:

“Kris had more ‘accidents’ recently than ever before and has to be extremely difficult of what she eats and drinks before going to public events,” a source close to the Kardashians tells Radar.

The insider (who is clearly a person Kris should stop sharing her secrets with) adds that the “pee-dicament” (Radar’s word, not ours) has been making creating difficulties in Kris’ family life.

Particularly with regard to her relationship with her grandkids:

“She’s been banned from jumping on their trampoline and swimming with them” says the source.

We learned this week that the aftermath of Kim’s Paris robbery will be featured on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, but hopefully the family draws the privacy line somewhere. 

But they’ve already demonstrated that if a medical problem might potentially provide a ratings boost, it’s fair game.

When Lamar Odom overdosed and wound up in a coma last year, the show captured his ensuing recovery, despite initial reports that  the hospital drama would remain off-limits.

Obviously, this situation isn’t quite as severe, and we’re sure it would be portrayed differently, but there’s something unseemly about getting laughs from a 61-year-old woman’s embarrassing medical issue.

Then again, this is Kris Jenner we’re talking about.

If E! offered her a check to do a two-hour special about her next colonoscopy, she’d be fasting before they got the contract drawn up.

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