Claire Wineland Quotes

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

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

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

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

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.

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.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

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

If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.

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.

I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

I thought my high school would either be like 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Stand and Deliver' - it was just a run-of-the-mill high school.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.