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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.