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!
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I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?
When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
My dad died of a stroke.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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