Jessica Alba Quotes

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

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

I was in the hospital for about two weeks because I had some complications due to the transition to kidney from dialysis and getting off of that.

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

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

I had terrible ear problems and asthma and allergies. I spent quite a bit of time in hospital up to the age of eight so was not - am still not - extraordinarily intelligent.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick.""Maybeyou should rupture something.""Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

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.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

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

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

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.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.