Michelle Carter Quotes

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

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.

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

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

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

I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

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.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

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

I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.

I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.