Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
I had the surgery, and it was removed, and I don't have any diverticulitis in me. It's gone. It has taken a number of years to feel good again.
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.
When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.
When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.
When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.
Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.
I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
I take medications every morning and night - they're my breakfast, and they're my dessert. I love them.
I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
