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The Shambala Preserve: Shambala is a Sanskrit term meaning place of peace/tranquility/happiness—for all beings
Tippi Hedren: How are both of you?
10-hour operation that it would take to fix me. As I went through all those tests, I thought, Thank God I workout every day. Every single day before I get out of bed I do lower body exercises. I have this whole routine.
Chet Cooper: I’m good.
Lia Martirosyan: I’m doing okay.
Matirosyan: Good for you.
Cooper: I hear you’re on the mend from surgery. What happened?
Hedren: I had gone to the doctor because of extreme headaches that I’d had all my life. Then, about five years ago, I was hit by a deluge of water at a studio down in San Diego when the air conditioning system broke. I had just had an operation to try to stop the headaches, where the doctor put a four-inch titanium plate in my neck with eight emerald-green screws in it.
Hedren: It was a long, tedious operation on the vertebrae in my neck. Very boring.
Cooper: Are you familiar with all of the subjects we cover?
Hedren: No.
(laughter)
Cooper: We cover long tedious operations on the vertebrae in the neck.
In fact, they were so pretty that I asked him if I could have one so that I could wear it on the outside, and show everybody what was on the inside.
Hedren: (laughs) That’s the most wonderful thing you could have said.
Cooper: As a necklace?
Oh, how funny! Well in that case I’ll go in-depth about it.
Hedren: (laughs) You are funny! I’m gonna use that. So anyway, my doctor said that the only reason I was able to complete the movie just two months after my operation was because I was playing the part of an older woman dying of cancer who uses a walker. And when the water hit all I could think of was my doctor saying, “Don’t fall because you’ll whiplash.” Well, I didn’t fall, but my headaches came back.
Cooper: I’m joking, but it’s not that far off; we actually do cover some spinal health.
Hedren: There are some really good points to touch on: Because of my age, they put me through rigorous physi- cal testing to make sure my body could withstand the
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