Nine Lives

Mishaps Of A Successful Physician Tom Moretto Are Chronicled As Nine Lives Provides A Walk Through His Childhood From The Time He Was Placed In The Birthing Crib To Die Before Morning--To The Cobalt Treatments For His Thyroid Problem. Cars Guns And Boats Led The Way To Hair-Raising Mishaps Throughout His Youth In Rural Indiana. And Jobs During His Teens Twenties And Thirties Couldn'T Squelch His Orneriness And Kept Him Flirting With Disaster With His Work-Hard Play-Hard Philosophy. But The Most Serious Challenge Was The Needless Heart Surgery Resulting From A Fluke. The Story Makes One Shed A Tear As Well As Belly Laugh As It Reaches Both Ends Of The Emotional Spectrum.