Tom Brokaw Quotes

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

My back is permanently messed up.

I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.