Daryl Hall Quotes

Lyme disease is very debilitating. Being from the East Coast I know Lyme disease is quite common and may lay dormant and may produce flu-like symptoms, as well as neurological issues.

I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth.

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected - sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

The wife and the kids provide my exercise, but I have to be careful because I have rheumatoid arthritis all over my body.

Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.

The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.