Life-Threatening Condition Quotes

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.

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

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.

As far as he knew, I was dying.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.

I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.