Regardless, the idea of having this kind of procedure makes her shudder."I still say it's barbaric," she said.
They emerged every couple of hours to share increasingly dire forecasts with Quivers' friend Susan Schneidermesser, who passed on the updates via phone to Quivers' other friends.
None of them took the news harder than Stern, who had threatened to quit his show if his broadcast partner of 32 years didn't make it.
“At first maybe they thought it was ovarian cancer,” Quivers said, stunning listeners.
It turned out to be worse — she had cancer and it had spread all over her pelvic organs.
ne day last May, shortly after a 12-hour operation that had surgeons flipping her around "like Cirque du Soleil" as they struggled to remove a grapefruit-size tumor and surrounding cancerous tissue from her pelvis, Robin Quivers finally discovered the limits of Howard Stern's sense of humor.
She had woken up around midnight in a darkened recovery room, lying immobile for seven hours, listening to other patients' bells and buzzers going off, pondering possibilities.
I went to Robin’s hospital in New York after her operation, very spontaneously, because I wanted to surprise her. He looked up and said, "Just what we need: Artie to make Robin laugh." And me and Howard and Robin were in the room alone for 45 minutes and we made her laugh, just like we were doing the news again. He eventually took the high road and said nice things and so did I.
[Stern show producer]Gary [Dell' Abate] calls back a day later and he says, very coldly, "It’s just not going to happen." And I regret that I gave him the chance to say that, because I didn’t even want to make the call. I really wanted to have that long conversation in person where I said, "I’m sorry for becoming a heroin addict. I apologize for that last year when I was a junkie."Do you ever see that happening on Howard's show? But coincidentally, about six months after that, Robin [Quivers] got sick. “Motherfucker, you were dumber than me in high school, I’m freezing my ass off going to build a deck in Newark and you're squeezing Carmen Electra’s tits? I happened to see you perform at Caroline’s comedy club in New York and saw High Pitch Eric there.
Quivers detailed an experience she had kept from nearly everyone, except for Stern and an alleged computer hacker who repeatedly posted her medical records online.
Stern’s right-hand woman — a vegetable-loving vegan — first noticed something wrong when she had the urge to urinate, but couldn’t.