Illness Severity Quotes

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.