Sickly Child
Throughout his life and many adventurous escapades, Hemingway was a very sick man, physically. As well as his many car and plane crashes, he survived skin cancer, anthrax, malaria, dysentery, hepatitis, anemia, high blood pressure, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, pneumonia, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
From the end of the year in 1955 to early 1956, Hemingway was bedridden. His doctor ordered him to stop drinking to mitigate liver damage… advice which, at first, he followed, but then he fell off the wagon, and his health was on a very slippery slope.
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