Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

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

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

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

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

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

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.

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

With Parkinson's, you do need more rest.

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. It means that you can think but sometimes can't walk, or even talk.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

The truth is my dad was a lovely man who had to retire early from his job as an engineer because he had osteoporosis. It meant he was forced to wear a harness and could hardly breathe.

There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.