Loss of Function Quotes

There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

The worst part about ALS is that one day, you're able to brush your teeth; then you'll never be able to brush your teeth again. One day, you're able to walk - you're never going to walk again.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

A cleaved head no longer plots.

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.

My hand landed on a rock, and the gnome landed on it, squashing my thumb between the rock and the gnome. Basically, it was crushed and took the end of my thumb off. I just looked at my hand, and the first thought that flashed into my mind was, 'How on earth am I going to make my devil horn sign now? That's my trademark!'

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.