Jessie J Quotes

I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pushing up against the back of my heart - and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

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.

If the people in the emergency room didn't know my name, they definitely knew my face because I was in there, like, every other week. I was one of those kids.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.

I am diabetic.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

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

There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

My daughter, when she was still in utero, she had, they call it atrial flutters. It's kind of like an irregular heartbeat. But when you're in utero, it's real hard to detect and also to treat.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.

Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.

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.

I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'