The Lyla Peretti Collection: Article - Bill Shanks Hospitalized

On June 13, As The World Turns's Casey Peretti succumbed to encephalitis, after a long and heroic struggle with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Ironically, shortly after taping his ATWT death scene, actor Bill Shanks found himself hospitalized for a rather serious problem in real life. the diagnosis: blood poisoning resulting from a bicycle injury. Shanks had been slated to return to ATWT to tape some flashback scenes following Casey's death, but the sequences were deleted from the script, due to the actor's sudden hospitalization.