And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.
The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.
Then, while looking through his bag, she discovers he's on drugs because he is sick and needs money for a life-saving operation.
Each act had to fit into the definition, so a doctor performing a life-saving operation would not count.
Rhys was to receive the potentially life-saving operation at the unit before its closure.
At this time he wrote a fragment of a play in which the protagonist Stone needs money for his child's life-saving operation.
In 1979, he had a life-saving operation after a haemorrhage.
Most procedures sufficiently long in duration to produce radiation burns are part of necessary life-saving operations.
Bill is then taken to the hospital for a life-saving operation.
The child again required a life-saving operation; this time to remove a stomach blockage.