Quotes About Recovery

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

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

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.

I had a pretty bad injury the end of my freshman year in college, and that taught me just to be patient.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

Yeah, when I had Covid all I could eat was fruit. Big bags of pears every day.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.