Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

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

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

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

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

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.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

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

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

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

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

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

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

Sickle cell anemia made me a real angry kid. I was angry at God. I used to sit there and pray to God, please, take this pain away. It was nothing magical happening, there was nothing there. I felt like my prayers were not being answered. It made me real moody, I had an attitude problem growing up as a young child.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.