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The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.