LaMarcus Aldridge Quotes

When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.

If you feel anything weird, immediately call 911 and give them your address because you may not make it past the phone call.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.

My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.