Teri Garr's Leg

Peter Cheimets

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Dec 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/30/96

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The last few times I have seen Teri Garr act she has had a limp. Does anyone
know what happened to her leg?

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Peter Cheimets

Harvey MacHattie

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Dec 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/31/96

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chei...@cfa.harvard.edu (Peter Cheimets) wrote:

I'd read somewhere that she has Multiple Sclerosis. I've no idea if
it's true.

HM
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Richard Handal

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Jan 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/1/97

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In article <32c80...@cfanews.harvard.edu>,

Peter Cheimets <chei...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>The last few times I have seen Teri Garr act she has had a limp. Does
>anyone know what happened to her leg?

There's been a lot of confusion about this for some time as it took a
while before she was successfully diagnosed, and rumors were already well
spread. She has degenerative spinal discs.

The following is from the article "Teri Garr's Good Advice," which was in
TV Guide of June 4-10, 1994, by Mary Murphy, on page 18:

"When I first got sick, I was panicked," she says, "scared to death." She
pauses to describe the symptoms. Sometimes she would lose the use of the
whole right side of her body. She felt very little pain, unless she jerked
her back the wrong way--and then it was excruciating. Sometimes she talked
about her fears at the hairdresser's--and it is the "hairdresser mafia"
she now blames for spreading the rumors.

"I even got a phone call one night from Bette Midler's makeup woman. She
said, `Are you alright? I heard that you had MS.' I said, `Stop it
already! It's insane. It's driving me crazy.' Those guys spread it around
like wildfire."

With rumors swirling, she flew to Boston to see an MS specialist. For the
next few days she lived in fear. But the tests were negative. What she
had, she learned, were degenerative discs with spurs on her neck and
spine. In short, a really bad back.

Richard
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Richard Handal -- han...@access.digex.net
"Serving the Garr community since 1986"
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Ali Assa Seen

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Jan 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/2/97

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In article <5acsks$o...@access5.digex.net>, han...@access5.digex.net
(Richard Handal) wrote:

> In article <32c80...@cfanews.harvard.edu>,
> Peter Cheimets <chei...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >The last few times I have seen Teri Garr act she has had a limp. Does
> >anyone know what happened to her leg?

It looked fine in the panty commercials...

>
> There's been a lot of confusion about this for some time as it took a
> while before she was successfully diagnosed, and rumors were already well
> spread. She has degenerative spinal discs.
>
> The following is from the article "Teri Garr's Good Advice," which was in
> TV Guide of June 4-10, 1994, by Mary Murphy, on page 18:
>
> "When I first got sick, I was panicked," she says, "scared to death." She
> pauses to describe the symptoms. Sometimes she would lose the use of the
> whole right side of her body. She felt very little pain, unless she jerked
> her back the wrong way--and then it was excruciating. Sometimes she talked
> about her fears at the hairdresser's--and it is the "hairdresser mafia"
> she now blames for spreading the rumors.
>
> "I even got a phone call one night from Bette Midler's makeup woman. She
> said, `Are you alright? I heard that you had MS.' I said, `Stop it
> already! It's insane. It's driving me crazy.' Those guys spread it around
> like wildfire."
>
> With rumors swirling, she flew to Boston to see an MS specialist. For the
> next few days she lived in fear. But the tests were negative. What she
> had, she learned, were degenerative discs with spurs on her neck and
> spine. In short, a really bad back.
>
> Richard
> -------------------------------------------
> Richard Handal -- han...@access.digex.net
> "Serving the Garr community since 1986"
> -------------------------------------------

It all started when she took that arrow in "Head".