Brian Dennehy Quotes

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.