Jack Osbourne Quotes

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.

It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.

Cancer is a cruel killer. It creeps up on us when we aren't expecting it. But cake is not cancer. A doughnut does not creep up on you.

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease.

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.