Wayne Static Quotes

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

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

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

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 had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

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

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

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.

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

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

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.

When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.

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.

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.

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

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

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

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

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

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.