Robert Irwin has shared an update on sister Bindi’s health after her recent emergency surgery in the US.
Bindi, 26, was on her way to Las Vegas with her brother and their mum Terri for the annual Steve Irwin Gala on May 11 when she was rushed to hospital with a ruptured appendix.
“She’s going really well,” Robert, 21, told Today this morning.
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”She missed our big Steve Irwin Gala that we were over in the States for. Her appendix decided to have a mind of its own.
“She went in to get that appendix removed surgically, and they found another 14 endometriosis lesions there. So she’s still battling endo, but she’s the best, I think, she’s been in years.
“She’s doing so well. We’re all now home together as a family and she’s just a whole new person. I’m really, really proud of her.”
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“I think it’s so important, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, endometriosis is such a under-discussed topic. Women’s health in general really is,” Robert continued.
“I think we need to make it a more mainstream discussion … if anyone’s out there struggling, put endo on your radar, it is such a prevalent thing.”
Robert was left to host the gala event solo, explaining his sister was in hospital with their mother by her side.
Later, Bindi shared a video from her hospital bed, reassuring her 5.7 million Instagram followers she was on the mend.
The wildlife warrior has spoken openly about her battle with endometriosis and her struggle to receive a diagnosis.
She said she was motivated to find the cause of her “10-plus years of being really, really sick” after giving birth to daughter Grace in 2021.
Bindi spoke about the harsh realities of fighting doctors who said it was all in her mind or “part of being a woman” before she was diagnosed with endometriosis.
”I went for 10 years undiagnosed because doctors really didn’t know enough,” she said, in an episode of A Life of Greatness with Sarah Grynberg.
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“They diagnosed me with a million other things like IBS, or its hormones or its just part of being a woman, and the symptoms continue to snowball.
“I had every scan you could imagine. I had CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasounds, blood tests.
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“I was tested for every disease, tropical disease. Everything you could imagine because I was so sick for so long and just nothing came back.
“Doctor after doctor would say, ‘Hey, it’s just part of being a woman. There’s really nothing wrong with you’. And I was just getting more and more unwell.”
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After a friend was treated for endometriosis and spoke about her symptoms, Bindi realised her health battles lined up with her friend.
It wasn’t long before a surgeon in the US operated on the young mum and discovered “over 30 lesions”.
“If I hadn’t gotten surgery, the next five years of my life would have been very make-or-break because I was having real problems internally,” she said.
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