Aron Ralston Quotes

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!

I break orbital bones.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.

I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.

I have an eight-inch plate in my shoulder with eight screws.

John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

She’s just a little faint,” I reassured Mrs. Hammond. “They’re blood typing in biology.” She nodded, understanding now. “There’s always one.” I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.

[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.

Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.

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.