Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
I don't have much patience with sick people.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.