Overview
- Lindsey Vonn said she underwent a sixth operation lasting just over six hours and shared images showing plates and screws in her left leg.
- She thanked Dr. Hackett for an “incredible job” and acknowledged surgical assistance from Dr.ssa Viola, noting some post‑op difficulties and that she was close to discharge.
- Vonn was first treated at Ca’ Foncello Hospital in Treviso, where she had four stabilizing procedures during a roughly nine‑day stay before returning to the United States.
- An Instagram Reel posted by her sister, Karin Kildow, joking about the attractiveness of Italian clinicians went viral and doubled as a public thank‑you for their care.
- USL 2 director Francesco Benazzi praised the young anesthesiology and intensive‑care team featured and said the hospital received many messages and flowers from the United States, while Italy’s emergency‑medicine society urged people not to crowd emergency rooms.