Sick Bay: Jane Fonda
Poncey-Highland resident and G-CAPP founder Jane Fonda is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital following knee replacement surgery on her left leg.
In a blog update titled “So Long Old Knee,” the two-time Oscar winner and Tony nominee reflected on the wizened, worn-out joint: I’ve been studying my knee. It’s never been my favorite part of me, partial as I am to the bony variety– elongated, skin close to the bone. Like my dad’s. . .
Still, I am growing fond of this left knee now that I have to say goodbye. It’s been a strong, faithful knee. It’s gotten me up a lot of steep mountains and across rugged terrain. For years I ran on it and skied. I am remembering the girlhood scabs from falls off my bike. The splinters and bruises. The kisses too. [Former husband film director Roger] Vadim liked to kiss my knees. (He was French).”
Doctors took X-rays and confirmed the need for a replacement Monday. Apparently, the knee had been bothering Fonda for some time, especially as she trod the boards for months this spring on Broadway in “33 Variations.”
Potentially breaking the heart of every young man who ever hung a “Barbarella” poster on their bedroom or dorm wall, Fonda added in the post: “No more short skirts. But then, I never wore them much anyway.”
And the surgeons were taking no chances on botching the operation on their famous patient. To avoid any confusion, Fonda’s doctor neatly printed his initials on the knee to be replaced.
“Imagine if it got out that I replaced Jane Fonda’s wrong knee,” he worried to her. “Forget the career.”
Fonda’s response: “You betcha!”
Just to be sure, the actress took a photo of her autographed knee and posted it online.
Fonda's initialed knee from her Twitter page.
Fonda’s 28, 018 followers can most likely expect her to resume her post-surgery posts today. Her final playful Tweet before surgery?
“Lying on gurney. Drugs just starting to hit. Wheeee. So long left knee. You’re toast!”
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Jim Warren from Marietta
June 18th, 2009
9:29 am
Best wishes Jane. Next you will need a sign that says:
Malcolm and Viva…stay clear of here!
Too bad...
June 18th, 2009
9:37 am
…Hanoi Jane didn’t get it blown off somewhere!
Will Jones - Atlanta
June 18th, 2009
10:03 am
Jane Fonda was raised Roman Catholic so couldn’t wrap her mind around the reality that Rome’s “Fifth Column” killed Kennedy to send us to Vietnam: she just viscerally approached the evil the way she did.
Ho Chi Minh was following the Whig Jeffersonian Revolution, begun with America, against caesaropapism, history’s “default” order…the Old Sectarian Order of king and pope. It was those European thrones under which “Our Light from the West ignited a volcano.”
Rome’s “Fifth Column” in America, led by the Vatican’s correspondent Rockefeller, who had built Roman Catholic Big Oil on unredressed murder and arson, and bribery of U.S. Senators and Federal Judges to avoid prosecution, and Rockefeller’s bi-partisan false-elite “clearinghouse,” the Council on Foreign Relations, guided “elite” thinking after the Roman Catholic, Knight of Malta-led CIA killed Kennedy, to convince America we needed to die in Vietnam.
Cardinals Spellman and Cushing sang in Rockefeller’s chorus.
Five percent of Vietnam’s population was Roman Catholic, having gotten into bed literally or figuratively with their French colonial Roman Catholic masters. The French Army’s commander which conquered Vietnam in the 18th C. was a Jesuit priest. Rome believes it “owns the world.”
Fonda was right to oppose the war, as many of the 9.2 million of us who served in the Armed Forces at the time will agree. As an 18 or 19 year old her sitting on an AA gun was wrong, but her heart was right.
It was because of Roman Catholic conditioning and ignorance of the anti-Roman Catholic Whig founding principles which make America great and righteous, that she was unable to address the evil she opposed in a mature manner.
The founder of the Jesuit order, Loyola, said “Give me a child for its first seven years and its mind is mine for life.”
Thankfully Jane Fonda has become a full American and proven Loyola wrong.
Let us return to our American foundation and remove the treasonous sectarian faction which has murdered our leaders, defiled our money, stolen our wealth, committed 9/11 and sent us to false war for oil and heroin.
G-d has blessed Jane Fonda. Ronald Reagan’s line is cut-off.
“Annuit Coeptis” is Our Motto and Creed. Let’s pay attention to what G-d thinks and not the traitors of the Gay Old Pervert party when we all know them to be a herd of closet-queens, draft-dodgers, lying hypocrites and adulterous perverts.
party pooper
June 19th, 2009
12:00 pm
will jones wears an aluminum hat around the house.