Quotes About Recovery

I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.

I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.

After a tough match, I'll do an ice bath, and that's really good for recovery because it helps circulation. Sometimes you feel really swollen.

The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane.

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.

Relapse is very dangerous. However, relapse can be a symptom of the disease. Sometimes there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.

Then after a few years I felt good in daily life but as soon as I started to push my body the symptoms came back and I had no strength at all. I got so tired. After an easy practice session all I wanted to do was sleep for days.

With COVID-19, I didn't have many symptoms luckily, so I think it's OK.

I have been very blessed in that I have been completely fine. No headaches, no depression... absolutely no signs of post-concussion syndrome.

Eventually, I developed compartment syndrome in my calf and had to get surgery. I run three to five days a week now, mixed in with walking and other things. I want to run just because I enjoy it.

When people think of chronic fatigue syndrome, they imagine someone simply sleeping a lot or who's always tired. The stigma from that name, and the name itself, desperately needs to change. In reality, sleeping doesn't mean rest at all, and it's never enough.

He felt now as if his entire body were recovering from frostbite, and he understood suddenly why people died in blizzards. It was not because they were cold and fell asleep. It was because it hurt too much to come back to life.

When she was eight years old, Bridget Barsamian woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told her she shouldn't be alive.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Wisdom always chooses these black eyes and these bruises over the heartache that they say never completely goes away

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

Wat moesten we beginnen met deze zombie, die ons zo tergend herinnerde aan de Loes die we hadden verloren en die daardoor zwakkelingen van ons maakte, vervuld van heimwee en gemis? Ze was het aan ons verplicht om weer zichzelf te worden, zo niet goedschiks, dan maar kwaadschiks.