Rube Goldberg Quotes

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

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

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

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.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

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've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.

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

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

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.

I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

I feel great, the prognosis is excellent.

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

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.