Katie Piper Quotes

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

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

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

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

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.

It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

When I was injured after 'Kill Bill' I had a year where I not just couldn't make any money but I couldn't swim, I couldn't surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn't do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

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

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

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

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

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.

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

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

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

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

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.