Marya Hornbacher Quotes

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

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

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

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

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

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

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

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 had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

There's days when my body's better than other days. It still gives me problems. But it's very manageable. Rehab is forever my friend.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor who lives with pre-existing conditions every day, and I know the uncertainty people face if they can't get their medicine.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.