Im Dong-Hyun Quotes

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

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

I've had, like, 10 surgeries in my life: four or so on my knee, my hip and my nose a couple of times.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

The problem with my shoulders was something I inherited from my dad. The left one would pop out and then pop back in - absolute agony - during almost every game last season, so I had surgery to put it right last summer.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I've been operated on 13 times.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

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.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.