European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Despite the pain of her illness Ireland says i have so Many things to Matte me Jill Ireland s Battle with cancer so Many reasons to hang on fila photo by Bob Thomas associated press it started again. Jill Ireland recalls ruefully. Jus two months before the live year Milestone when she would finally to considered free of 1984, Iho Blond English bom actress producer underwent surgery Tor removal of her right breast and eight Lymph nodes under her right Arm during the six Molho of chemotherapy she wrote a Book about her ordeal lilo wish which became a Best seller. She and her husband Lough Guy actor Charles Bronson. Resumed their lives and she co produced his my Murphy s Law. And co starred with him in assassination then in april 1988, she fell pain just above her Collarbone it was treated with local radiation alter thai my whole shoulder began to be excruciatingly painful and would swell she recounted from her hotel room in Arlington. Texas. Where she is undergoing intense treatment. I began losing the use of my right Arm. I kept being told by the doctors that it was Iho result of radiation. It got very bad and i developed a bad cough. They discovered i had cancer in my lungs. Then they discovered i had cancer in my femur my hip and my thyroid i had been Given the Betty Ford award Here two years ago by the Komen foundation i came Back last year even though i did t feel very Well because Nancy Reagan was receiving it. When i was Here. I met a doctor George Blumenshein who said. I hear you be had a recurrence of cancer what Are you doing about ?11 said radiation. He did t say very much but silence can say quite a her condition worsened and she recalled meeting the doctor from the Arlington cancer Center. She called him and was on the Jet to Dallas the next Day. He a Rayed everything and showed me where everything was Ireland continued. To suggested putting a Catheter into a valve going into my heart and he started very very heavy doses of chemotherapy. Unfortunately it did t work sol came Back. What they re doing now is hyperthermia it s an All Day thing i go to the Hospital at 9 in the morning and i m there until 7 in the the hyperthermia involves injecting 9-Inch Metal skewers into her shoulder and heating them to 160 degrees in an attempt to Burn the tutors. She also is undergoing radiation and chemotherapy. Ireland said laughingly that she hoped her renewed illness would t upstage her new Book. Among other things life lines deals with another painful subject her ordeal with her adopted son Jason who fell victim to drug and alcohol abuse. He is one of Ireland s seven children. I started writing right after life wish she said. I knew i wanted to write about Jason about adoption about dam detox ribonucleic acid the material of which genes Are made. When you adopt a child the birth Mother is never out of the picture. I thought i had adopted the child of a married architect and a Young Irish girl. Instead i had adopted a drug addict s child. It s sad because he s a wonderful person. He s Strong but he had All these problems. I grew up in the school of thought that environment counted. Now of course i be switched right around. I believe that Dan is what counts. Poor Jason he s gone through the torture of the she added that Jason was proud of her Book and said if it can help one kid it s Worth ." at a recent Beverly Hills parly to launch life lines Jason appeared and said he had been clean and sober for two months. The oldest of two children Ireland grew up in a suburb of London the daughter of a grocery Story manager. Her Mother was a dance and music enthusiast who enrolled Jill in Ballet school when she was Only 4. Ireland studied dance through her teens and at 18, she performed a Solo in the movie of Rosalinda which led to a film contract with Britain s rank organization. It was there that she met her first husband actor David Mccallum with whom she had two sons and adopted another Jason. In 1962, she met Charles Bronson while filming the great escape. She divorced Mccallum in 1967 and married Bronson a year later. The couple had custody of Ireland s three sons As Well As Bronson s son of to daughter by a previous marriage. The whole family travelled through Europe while the couple acted together in such movies As violent cily breakout and hard times. In 1971, the Bronson had their own child daughter Zuleika and later adopted another girl. Despite her illness Ireland is already working on the third of her planned Book trilogy Lile times. Ii is a Book about Iho major Strong forces which have helped me in my life including details of her extramarital Romance with and subsequent marriage to Bronson. Can she defeat this latest threat to her life i Hope so she replied thoughtfully. It s a Devil. But i m doing one Day at a time. You have to pick your moments. You can t look five weeks Down the line. I have a Good life. I love my life so much. I have so Many things to make me Happy i m so blessed. Ironically the sicker i be become my life has become More Beautiful not because of the sickness you understand. I guess it s just because of my age 53and the Way things have gone. So i have so Many reasons to hang Erma Bombeck last weekend my husband drove five picture nails into our Walls in terms of pain thai a Layman can understand this is equivalent to passing live kidney stones the size of Patio bricks it All started when i said i was sick of Iho desert scene Over the Sola in the family room that had to be moved to the hallway the hallway Birds would go to the bedroom the bedroom picture of the two Little girls skipping rope would move to the guest room the Sunset there would hang in the dining room and we d hang an Indian Blanket on the Bare Wall in the family room. None of the old nails lit the new pictures. Maybe to some men this would t be a big Deal. But you have to understand what i m dealing with Here. When a Hole is made in our Walls my husband bleeds. We have Towel Racks that Lor years have lain Flat on the counter. To have a cup dispenser that is propped up in the Corner of the Medicine Chest. Don t even think of looking Lor a Hook on the bathroom door. His theory is ii god had meant holes to be driven into Walls he would have made the Walls throughout our entire married life pulling a Nail in the Wall has been the one argument guaranteed to get him a night s sleep on the Sola. In fact i never walk by the full length Mirror propped against a Wall in our bedroom that old wounds Aren t opened. I bought the Mirror to mount on the door of my closet so that i could see what i looked like before i walked out the door. He refused to put it up until i was that was in 1981. Do you know what i see before i walk out the door a 3-foot-tall grown woman on her Knees angry enough to kill. I m Happy to report that the Nail fetish in t in the genes. Our son borrowed our Drill one Day to hang a Hammock in his apartment. When my husband saw in he grabbed his Chest and gasped. I thought he was going to be sick. You violated a Wall you just met this Wail was Pristine and pure just a few minutes ago. Then you come in with your Drill and sink two Hooks the size of fists. Craters this size Are something you talk about. These holes Don t heal themselves son. They re so How did i get my husband to drive five nails into the Walls simple. I told him if he did t do it i would and i would t measure i d just eyeball i told him i would t look for a Wall stud nor would i Wear my glasses. I would t use a level on the pictures and i would t put Down a cloth to catch the junk from the Drill. He was motivated. But lace it he s still the same Man who looked at the sistine Chapel his eyes glistening with excitement As he said look at that not one Nail c 19b9 Etna Jombock Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday May 17,19b9
