“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.” WritingMy OwnGriefDiseaseMajorsLosingDecidedAffectedRefugeMobility Author:Tara Brach
“So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.” PersonsHealthyDiseaseDecidedInevitableRepeatsDeclineHealthy Person Book:Mortality Source: Mortality
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.” ThinkingFirstsKindMemoriesForgetDiseaseDecidedIllnessAbsenceCurseRelatedCollectivesPeculiarFugitiveCollective Memory Author:Gilles Peress
“I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.” IfsKindFormForceDiseaseFindingsDecidedInsultWretchedAlzheimerAlzheimer'sAtrophy Author:Terry Pratchett
“While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.” MeanMadeSeemsAbleScienceNatureDecisionClearProduceDiseaseEvidenceDecidedFavorsAgencyTexasVery StrongInvestigationFeverTick Author:Theobald Smith
“I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.” DiseaseDecided Book:Mortality Source: Mortality