Quotes About Surgery

At some points, I wanted to quit. There were surgeries after surgeries, and I didn't really believe in myself. I didn't feel good about my body.

No Botox, no facelifts. I've had two laser surgeries for my eyesight, that's it. The rest is down to good genes and my unique personal formula for good health.

I have a braided metal wire going down the middle of my chest underneath my skin. I saw it on an X-ray of it; it looks like a piece of jewelry.

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

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

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

I have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I'm really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That's my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can't - even with surgery.

We couldn't celebrate the birth of our twins, as the moment they were born, we found out within 15 minutes that one needed to have a surgery. So, despite being such a joyous moment, we couldn't declare it to anyone.

I cried after I woke up from surgery and saw that my finger was gone. I was looking at my hand, going, 'Where the hell is my finger at?'

What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.

I will continue to need operations and therapy for life. For acid attack survivors, the aftermath is a life sentence.

I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for long enough, you will get a hair cut.' Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough, you're going to get some surgery.

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.

I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am.

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'

Há também as dores da alma que nenhuma cirurgia consegue curar. O medo, por exemplo, não pode ser amputado. Pena. Porque o medo paralisa a vida. Dominada pelo medo, a vida se encolhe, perde a capacidade de lutar, entrega-se à morte.

I hope she never needs heart surgery, because the doctor wouldn't be able to find it.

I hope she never needs heart surgery, because the doctors wouldn't be able to find it.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.

If I know Mom,' she said, 'she'd have refused any surgery anyhow.' 'It's true,' Amanda said. 'Her advance directive basically asked us to put her out on an ice floe if she developed so much as a hangnail.