My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

I was seeing everything through pain.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.