Phillip Phillips Quotes

I've been operated on 13 times.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

After a performance at Hosadurga, I was struggling with severe gastroenteritis, for which I took multiple injections to ease the pain. But when it wouldn't abate, I got hospitalized, and that is when the heart issues were found out.

The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

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

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 was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

I had open heart surgery, exploratory surgery in my stomach, bilateral chest tubes... all this stuff.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

If the people in the emergency room didn't know my name, they definitely knew my face because I was in there, like, every other week. I was one of those kids.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.