Mike McCready Quotes

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 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.

There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.

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.

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.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

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

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

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

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

Crohn's doesn't define who you are. You are a human being; you are special and a great addition to society. Crohn's is just a part of your life. Try to be positive and proactive - therein lies the solution.