Alexis Ren 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've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

I've been in and out of hospitals a lot in terms of family or extended family or myself.

I was not active in films for three years owing to some treatments I was undergoing.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

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

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.

I was really small and had a lot of health issues growing up. I mean, not compared to some people, certainly, but I had a number of full-body blood transfusions when I was kid.

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

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.