Ken Kercheval Quotes

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.

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

I was a bit of a sickly child!

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

I had an allergic reaction to lip fillers. And I looked like 'Finding Nemo.'

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

If your child has a strep throat, and you're on vacation, it doesn't necessarily mean that they need antibiotics. In fact, by the majority, they won't need antibiotics.

Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

I break out in a rash if I go to the gym; all I did was shave my chest.

I been going to the hospital since I was born, about 10 times a year, for about a week or two each time.

No, I am not allergic to lemon, though fresh pineapple can pose problems.

Like most girls, I suffered from pimples, too. I tried dozens of treatments but was never satisfied with any.

As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.

I've been a bit unlucky with small injuries.

Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.

When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.

I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Nothing is better than getting sick kids better.

When I was a little girl, whenever I would get sick, my mom would go and get stacks and stacks of VHS tapes from Blockbuster.

I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.