John Tavener Quotes

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

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

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

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

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

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

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

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.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

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

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Art needs an operation

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.