Quotes About Recovery

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Usually when you get your belly button pierced, you're supposed to get the hoop and you're supposed to heal around it. I basically got the gem right away - you're not supposed to do that.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.

Working on my first novel, 'Groundswell' - about a woman recovering from a bad breakup who falls in love with surfing - I spent a month south of the border. And when I wasn't writing or surfing, I was eating. A lot.

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

I've had four knee surgeries in my career. I just don't do small injuries. The highs of winning are always balanced out by the lows of being injured and missing games. There was a time when I was out for nearly a year, having already been out for six months with another surgery before that.

I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.

The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much.

Something was causing me not to be able to sleep, and then after a while your brain doesn't want to turn off and go to sleep. And so it was constant battle with that. But as soon as I had the neck surgery, I started sleeping again.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.