70 Women Ages 5-75: What's the Biggest Health Scare You've Had?

[Interviewer] What's the biggest health scare you've had?

I got sick before.

I don't think I had one at all.

When I fell down and scraped some of my skin off

and then I got a scar.

I've gotten gastritis before.

I'm going to get a tooth pulled in a few weeks.

I had this really bad headache.

I broke my arm once.

Probably when I had the flu.

I was allergic to a dog

and I got like all these bumps around my face.

When I was six I had a kidney operation.

Growth deficiency.

I broke my arm when I was five.

I was misdiagnosed three times

before I found out I had an ovarian cyst.

When I was 10 I had pneumonia.

Big weight loss in 2016.

I got in a bad car accident and I got a concussion.

Hyperthyroidism.

As a kid I had a cyst on my neck.

Thyroid condition.

I've had tonsillitis before.

I've never really had a health scare, luckily.

I haven't had any major health scares.

I used to have panic attacks.

A cancer scare.

Doctors thought that I had a tumor

and it turned out to be really bad allergies.

When I was a teenager I went to Thailand

and got dengue fever, that was fun.

I had a hernia when I was five.

I've had a fibroid.

Birth control led to a pulmonary embolism

and I was in the hospital for a week.

Neurocardiogenic syncope.

I was in a car accident and I shattered

my wrist and my knee.

I had to get a colonoscopy.

I was in the hospital when I was much younger

as a child with arthritis.

I took a martial arts class

and I got punched in the chest.

I was in a bad car accident.

I had some weird leakage from my right breast

and thought I might have cancer

but then I had a mammogram and everything was fine.

A pituitary tumor.

Cracked my wrist in half.

Blood clots on my lungs.

Being high risk for heart disease.

Asthma attack.

I tried to commit suicide.

I had lead poisoning when I was a little girl.

I had a kidney infection.

I had a heart attack.

Skin cancer. Cancer.

Stroke.

I feel fortunate I haven't really had a health scare.

Hyperthyroid. Abnormal blood test.

I'm a former professional ballet dancer

so I had a lot of injuries when I retired.

A ruptured appendix. Breast cancer.

They thought they saw a little granule on my lung.

I've had breast cancer twice.

I've had a double mastectomy but I'm still here.

Possibility of breast cancer.

Skin cancer.

Heart murmur about four years ago.

A couple of biopsies after routine mammography

that turned out fine.

A thyroid condition that I had to have a operation for.

A breast aspiration.

I nearly died from a misdiagnosed

autoimmune disorder called Still's disease.

High cholesterol. Joint problems.

I had a fluttering in my chest

so I thought it was a heart attack but it wasn't.

Having diabetes. Cancer.

Cancer. Knee replacement.

A tumor. Blood clots.

Multiple blood clots in both lungs after knee surgery

and that was pretty scary.