Jenna Morasca Quotes

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

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.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

Probably the toughest time in my life was - was standing there with Ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. And I was afraid it was Lou Gehrig's disease. As we came into the doctor's office, the brochures on his table there were Lou Gehrig's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.

I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.