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For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

— Sanya Richards-Ross

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

— Kevin Whately

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

— Jonah Lomu

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

— Daniel Johns

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

— Alvin Toffler

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

— Neil Cavuto

I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.

— Brittany Snow

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

— Gene Tierney

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

— Victor LaValle

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

— Clayton Christensen

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Vanity