Dennis Washington Quotes

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

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.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

I was riding pillion on my friend's motorbike, and we met with an accident which badly injured my right leg. I was bedridden for three years and used crutches for one year before I fully recovered.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

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

When I left WWE, I had surgery on my foot. I had drop foot, where my foot was totally paralyzed. I had a tendon transfer and got nine screws in my foot.