Ethan Coen Quotes

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.

For me, cleidocranial dysplasia was something that just spontaneously happened. Nobody in my family has it. It doesn't really hinder me at all. Obviously, I'm still able to do the things I love.

I get migraines. I've had them all my life; so has my dad. So did his grandmother, although back then they called them 'sick headaches.'

One of the common conditions on both sides of my families is diabetes.

I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

My mom is part albino.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

I had over 10 seizures.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

I have permanent damage to my facial nerves. I went to the UCLA Movement Disorder Clinic, and after two years of tests and constant monitoring they have finally found the right medication that keeps the spasms under control.

If you have two weeks of no feeling in your leg, you start to wonder, 'Will it ever return?'

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

I have rather skinny legs - I blame my dad's side of the family.

I get my light eyes from my mother.