Kristin Armstrong Quotes

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally different. It's painful as hell is all I can say.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I'm there. It's embarrassing. But I can't walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can't go anymore.

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

The wife and the kids provide my exercise, but I have to be careful because I have rheumatoid arthritis all over my body.

I hardly do any exercise because of my arthritis and my joints.

I have osteoarthritis so bad... I can walk up a hill; I just can't walk down one.

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about::::=.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.