The woes of the aged
Readers will recall that more than a week ago PPT posted on Princess Chulabhorn’s claim that the king had collapsed and suffered internal bleeding. More recently, we referred to “the oddity of Princess Chulabhorn’s unconfirmed claims” about the king’s health that one account claimed “some royalists and independent analysts interpreted as veiled criticism of Yingluck [Shinawatra]’s crisis management.” Not long after Chulabhorn’s first claim, PPT commented that “The Bangkok Post print edition has a photo of the chipper-looking king meeting at the riverside with his daughter to ‘talk about the floods.’ On television in the regular royal news, while in a wheelchair, it has to be said that the king looked quite well.”
As usual, the rumors of the king’s health are not made any clearer by the systematically opaque management of his more than two-year hospitalization. However, we wonder if the most recent account at the Bangkok Post is a less politicized version of the king’s current state of health, described by “royal physicians” as essentially maladies of the aged.
The Post reports that the Royal Household Bureau states that the king has “had a fever occurring at irregular intervals and had pain in his lower abdomen…”. It adds that the “royal physicians explained that this was a common occurrence among the elderly that occasionally causes inflammation and bleeding.” So he is on intravenous antibiotics and a limited diet.
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