Victoria Arlen Quotes

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Obviously, it's unheard of for anybody to come back from this type of injury that Edge had.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

When you have a stroke, it changes you... It really teaches you, like, you have to live in the moment.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking!

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

Probably the toughest time in my life was - was standing there with Ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. And I was afraid it was Lou Gehrig's disease. As we came into the doctor's office, the brochures on his table there were Lou Gehrig's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.