Camille Kostek Quotes

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

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

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

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.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.

There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I experience on a daily basis. It can be very frustrating sometimes and painful, but I'm very blessed.

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

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.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

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

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

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

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

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