Luke Shaw Quotes

Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career.

I've been operated on 13 times.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

I have something called endometriosis, and I was told by my gynecologist that I needed to go on a specific diet if I didn't want to have any more surgery.

The scary thing about blood clots is where they can lead.

When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Over the years, I've hurt my thumb, separated my shoulder, and injured my back, but not too bad. Actually, my back was hurt pretty bad. I had to take an ambulance and was in bed for a week.

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.

Obviously with a knee injury there are certain protocols that need to happen.

I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.

I was in the middle of my match and I was coming to the net and all I remember was hearing this loud pop and everything was slow after that. I just remember trying to take a step and my leg just not being able to hold me and I went down.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."

Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.