Ruth Rendell Quotes

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

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.

The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

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

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

When Joe Kennedy had his stroke, all our plans went out the window.

You wonder, 'How could it possibly be me?' Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it's a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.

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