Kate Gosselin hospitalized after tibial plateau fracture from a puppy

Kate Gosselin, the former reality television star, was hospitalized late Monday and underwent surgery on Tuesday after she said a family puppy ran into her at full speed and fractured the upper part of her shinbone, she announced on social media.

Gosselin, 50, first posted a dimly lit photo on TikTok showing an IV in her arm and a pulse oximeter on her finger, asking followers, "Please pray for me tonight and tomorrow. I will be fine, but I am scared." She updated fans the next day from her hospital bed, saying she had surgery that morning and was receiving multiple pain medications.

In a livestream and in a video recorded from her hospital room, Gosselin said the incident occurred while she was taking the dogs for a walk with her boyfriend, identified as Steve. She described her puppy Meika running at top speed to retrieve a ball, colliding with her knee and causing what she called a tibial plateau fracture. Gosselin said her surgeon described the injury as "one of those things that is a life altering event." She added that the operation involved placement of plates and pins and lasted about three hours.

A tibial plateau fracture is a break in the upper surface of the tibia that...