sfgate.com reports:
As the bass player with no legs or fingers prepared for a rare form of heart surgery at Stanford Hospital, one of his main concerns was whether to take out his nipple rings.
John Dalton has never been one to dwell on his medical woes or ballooning hospital bills. There's too much life to live. The 30-year-old San Franciscan with leaky heart valves is getting married next year to a cute, smart woman who has literally carried him across Italy on her back. He plays for a band that S.F. Weekly named the best punk band in San Francisco for 2002: the Angry Amputees (although he's the only amputee). In the outpouring of musical love that followed his illness, people far and wide, including Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, donated money and gifts to his cause.
