Norman Braman Quotes

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people's attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a lot of courage.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.