Charlie goes under the knife again
NZPA correspondent Sydney
Charlie Hill will spend his next birthday in an environment he knows well — the hospital ward. The Toowoomba, Queensland, resident has had 290 operations in his life, 134 of them serious ones. His latest is for throat cancer and he will celebrate his seventy-third birthday during his stay at Royal Brisbane Hospital. However, that prospect has not diminished Mr Hill’s spirits. He has suf-
fered from osteomyelitis, hernias, ruptures and broken bones. “After one of the operations on my left leg, a nurse picked up my leg and it broke, so I had to go straight back into the theatre. “People make a big deal out of operations, but it’s no big deal.” Mr Hill said too many people worried themselves into the grave about dying. “We all go there sooner or later,” he said. “I reckon I have another 30 years yet, no sweat.”
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