Shelley Fabares Quotes

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

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

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

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

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

I had a breast reduction.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

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

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

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

I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

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 had heart surgery when I was 17.

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

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

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.