The surgeon told me if I had carried on boxing without the surgery it would have ruined my career.
My wife, who was with me, took me straight to Morriston Hospital, where I'd had the original surgery.
Over the next two years, I had surgery, I received chemotherapy and I received the experimental drug.
He looked at me, looked at the results and said that he thought I had a deadly fungus from mold exposure and I needed emergency surgery or I could possible die in the next couple of days.
Since then I've had quite serious surgery and then chemotherapy but I've carried on doing fitness all the way through.
"I think Alex had somewhat of a special surgery, " the manager said.
And I had always thought that cosmetic surgery was a substitute for working out in the gym.
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Ms. BRENDA SWAN: My husband has just come out the hospital from extensive surgery, and I have a son that's had two strokes and is paralyzed.
It turned out I had a rare virus that had attacked the muscles in my heart and as a result, I ended up having major heart surgery -- bypasses of five arteries.
" From his mother, in rural Washington state, after some surgery: "I must say, the sleep was the best I have had in months.
In a recent Japanese study that looked at nearly 500 Japanese women with stage I and II breast cancer, researchers found the women who drank more green tea before and after surgery had a lower chance of the cancer recurring.
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As I regained my health, I had a lot of time to think about what we always hear about surgery but very rarely actually experience: The recovery from any medical procedure is more difficult than the operation itself.
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