Connie Williams

Connie Williams is a patient who had to have part of her tongue removed due to cancer.

Appendectomy
Connie liked Richard Webber because he'd taken out her appendix three years prior to her cancer treatment and barely left a scar.

Tongue Cancer
Connie had had a few taste buds removed that turned out to be cancer, so she came in to have the rest of the cancer removed. The cancer was more widespread than they'd hope, taking over 60% of her tongue. She needed a surgery to remove her tongue and reconstruct it with flesh from her leg, which would allow her to breathe and chew normally. She was concerned because she wouldn't be able to talk understandably after the surgery.

Richard suggested a functional muscle transfer that would allow Connie to speak after her surgery. Very few surgeries of that type had been done before and it was risky.

Connie was worried about not being able to speak after the surgery, so her best friends, Joanne and Elaine, encouraged her to say everything she wanted to say to them before the surgery, so she'd have the chance. She did so, but hurt her friends' feelings with what she said. She worried about it as she was being wheeled into surgery.

After her surgery, which was successful, she was in recovery. Elaine and Joanne came into her room and started telling her all the things they had wanted to tell her for years. She clutched their hands in relief.

Romantic
Her first husband put his hand on Joanne's ass every chance he got and her second husband spat when he talked and he was ugly. She thought he was handsome, but he was not.

Friendships
She, Joanne, and Elaine are best friends. They all love to talk.