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Roger Ebert expected a speedy recovery from surgery for salivary cancer last June, but then he had several episodes of sudden and serious bleeding. "They stabilized me, operated on me to deal with the arteries, kept me sedated to avoid disturbing the affected areas -- and then I essentially spent July and August completely out of it," he writes. "I remember only fragmentary episodes. In September, my bleeding hazards stabilized, I came off sedation to find I had lost track of two months of my life, and starred in several prayer vigils."
