Post-Operative Care Quotes

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

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

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

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

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

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.

It's hard to come back and play when you've gone through surgery.

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

Twelve years ago my mother gets her cataracts removed. So twelve years ago the doctor gives her these enormous sunglasses to wear to protect her eyes from the sun for 4-6 weeks after the operation...twelve years ago. She still wears them. She thinks they're attractive. She looks like Bea Arthur as a welder.

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.

Even now with the operation, with the damage done, my ankle probably is never going to be back to 100 per cent.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.

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

I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.

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

The lap-band surgery has been tremendous.

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

I've been operated on 13 times.

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.