I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.
Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.
I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.
The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long.
It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.
And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!
Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.
I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
I've been very open about my health challenge because I think it's really important to let my constituents know that in spite of the fact that I am still in treatment, nothing about this treatment prevents me from doing my job.
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
