Ann Romney Quotes

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

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

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.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

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

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

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

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

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.

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

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 do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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