#surgery

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#disease #given #gland #graves #i

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent. ↗

— Brian Jordan

#career #decision #get #had #healthy

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#cosmetic #doctor #full #going #i

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery. ↗

— Greg Rusedski

#downside #fear #fighting #injury #process

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#back #before #came #did #four

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

— Trish Stratus

#biggest #bone #chip #gosh #injury

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#course #does #dragged #every #every time

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful. ↗

— Eva Green

#aware #awful #botox #business #make

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#accustomed #back #couple #couple times #course

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics