I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Without the care I received at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, I wouldn't look the way I do now; my back would be hunched over.
Even when I was hurt with triple ACL reconstructive surgeries, there was a target on my back. I had to come back and fight through it.
I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.