GUIDING LIGHT Feature

Doctor's Orders
A GL Medical Quiz

— By Danielle McClure

With Olivia's recent heart transplant (R.I.P. Gus), Harley's panic attacks, Ava's baby-makin' scheme and Ashlee's upcoming surgery (check out Digest's 4/22 issue for the full scoop on that interesting story), there are certainly a lot of medical-related maladies, missions and even mishaps in Springfield these days! Take this quiz to see if you can remember who's checked into Cedars (and even Metro!) and for what malady through Springfield history.

1. Sick Of It All: Phillip (Grant Aleksander) consoled terminally ill Lizzie (then-Hayden Panettiere) back in 2000. — LORENZO BEVILAQUA/PGP

   Who traveled the world to lecture about hearing loss after receiving cochlear implants in 1999?
1. Pam Chandler
2. Selena Davis
3. Abigail Blume
4. Victoria Granger
2.            was born with a hearing condition.
1. Daisy
2. Vanessa
3. Coop
4. Marina
3. Before she was killed in a car accident in 1976, Metro nurse Leslie Bauer was often harassed by a folk singer named Chad Richards, who had what?
1. Dyslexia
2. Turret's syndrome
3. A brain tumor
4. Halitosis
4. In 1996, Fletcher and Holly's child was born with Down syndrome. What was the kid's name?
1. Peg
2. Meg
3. Greg
4. Craig
5. When beloved GL vet Charita Bauer fell ill in 1983, the show made her real-life crisis part of her character, Bert Bauer's, story. What was the problem?
1. She had cancer and lost her hair.
2. She had a stroke and was paralyzed.
3. She had blood clot and lost her leg.
4. None of the above.

6. Bad News: In 2005, Reva (Kim Zimmer) found out she had breast cancer. — LORENZO BEVILAQUA/PGP

   After Bill was born in 1984, an anxiety ridden Vanessa became addicted to           .
1. Tranquilizers
2. Quaaludes
3. Antidepressants
4. Sex
7. What procedures did Lizzie undergo when she was diagnosed with leukemia?
1. Bone marrow transplant
2. Chemotherapy
3. Blood transfusion
4. Kidney transplant
5. A and B
6. C and D
8. What condition did Maureen discover she had?
1. Scabies
2. Blindness
3. Infertility
4. Hepatitis
9. When Reva had cancer and thought she was dying, what did she do?
1. Partied in Las Vegas with Billy
2. Drove a race car
3. Visited her kids in New York
4. All of the above
10. Which of these characters hasn't suffered from a serious medical condition?
1. Frank
2. Beth
3. Buzz
4. Michelle

11. Road To Recovery: In 2002, tough-as-nails Alan Spaulding (Ron Raines with Joan Collins, ex-Alexandra) suffered a heart attack. — ROBERT MILAZZO/PGP

    Mallet and/or Dinah have had which ailments?
1. Coma
2. Cancer
3. Blindess
4. Memory loss
5. C and D
6. A and B
12. Who hasn't been blind?
1. Eleni
2. Michelle
3. Bill
4. Beth
13. When Richard died, who got his ticker?
1. Dylan
2. Rick
3. Gus
4. Coop
14. What caused Alexandra to collapse recently?
1. A panic attack
2. Diabetes
3. An embolism
4. Hypertension

ANSWERS

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