I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The amount of surgeries I've had are absolutely minimal compared to the reconstructive surgeries I've had. Probably 300.
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.