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Quotes About Recovery

Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
~ Jan Vogler
They say that it's rare, and for the longest time, I felt alone being a victim of TSS. It not only left physical wounds but mental ones. I battled PTSD and fell into a dark depression after what happened. I melted into my bed, and life just sort of stopped.
~ Lauren Wasser
I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write, I said, 'Wow, even as an old woman, I could have a selected book of poems.'
~ Ntozake Shange
I'm on the mat six times a week, so I got on the TRT. I had some back issues and I'm always on he mat, so I had my levels checked. So I went and my things were in the 300s or whatever, so I'm like really, wow... so I'm a candidate?
~ Matt Serra
Before I played in the NHL I had two surgeries. Definitely I was like, 'Wow, this is not good. I haven't played a game yet and I have two surgeries.' I didn't get another one ever again. I was fortunate.
~ Martin Brodeur
My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.
~ Teri Garr
They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore.
~ Teri Garr
After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.
~ Madeline Brewer
I do wear kind of like a homemade-type girdle after I had the babies, for six weeks, and I'm wrapped so damn tight for a period of time - and it makes your stomach flat as a board.
~ Kim Zolciak-Biermann
I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
~ Corey Haim
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
~ Dave Matthews
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
~ Jack Osbourne
I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.
~ Jose Canseco
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
~ Alistair Darling
I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.
~ Mike Schultz
I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again.
~ Kurt Vile
People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.
~ Kyle Carpenter
I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
~ Gary Rossington
After my head injury, I was, like, bipolar, an emotional wreck.
~ Brady Jandreau
I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.
~ Jim Norton
I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.
~ Mike Schultz
My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.
~ John Layfield
I had virtually a three-month layoff from an injury angle we ran so I didn't wrestle at all. I was worried the most about my cardio and I tried to stay in cardio shape using a Stairmaster and treadmill but there's nothing like being in ring shape.
~ Ricky Steamboat
Even though I do feel great right now, there is a chance that if I were to try to wrestle that I might reinjure myself. It might not be in that first match back and may not be in that second match back, but there is a chance.
~ Tyson Kidd