"Linda and me came over for dinner once and John said, 'You fancy getting the trepanning thing done?' I said, 'Well, what is it?' and he said, 'Well, you kind of have a hole bored into your skull and it relieves the pressure.' We're sitting at dinner and this is seriously being offered! Now, this wasn't a joke, this was like, Let's go next week, we know a guy who can do it and maybe we can do it all together. So I said, 'Look, you go and have it done, and if it works, great. Tell us about it and we'll all have it.' But I'm afraid I've always been a bit cynical about stuff like that -- thank God! -- because I think that there's so much crap that you've got to be careful of. But John was more open to things like that."
-October 1986
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Hee. Oh Paul. Thank goodness is right. Sometimes I think he was the only one of the Beatles with any common sense. ... And he could be pretty flighty!
My wife died of brain cancer and as part of a clinical trial she had the trepanning procedure (there's more to it than that, but sheesh!).
I could have gone all day without knowing that Lennon (whom I still try to admire though as the years go by his latter antics make it very hard) - all day - without knowing that Lennon ever considered such a thing.
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