Daniel Woodrell Quotes

Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.

Going through chemo is a monster. You literally feel like you're dying every day.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

Chemo is awful!

Two days after the chemo I felt terrible, like I had a permanent migraine and had been shot in every limb. I was knackered, starving. The doctor explained that was because I had essentially been poisoned.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.

For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

When I'm sick, all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep for days!

Chemo gets all the notoriety, but for me, radiation was really the tough one.

Dialysis is horrible and left me so tired. I couldn't do it any more, it takes so much out of you. By the end I was tired of being tired. I could sleep 11, 12 or 13 hours a day and still be absolutely knackered.