What Doesn't Kill You Quotes

“(Many chronically ill folks have more than one illness, as they often come in twos and threes and sometimes more. Multiple diagnoses are not at all strange in the chronic illness community. Think of it like any structure: If one part begins to crumble, others are likely to follow.)”
― Tessa Miller, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

“Letting go of control allowed me to release the undirected rage I was carrying around. I’m still angry—have you seen the world?—but not at myself, nor at passing strangers whose lives I silently judge as better or easier than mine. I’m not even mad that I’m sick. Rather, the powerful, vibrating fury in my belly is directed at the politicians”
― Tessa Miller, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

“I’m not saying this just because women are better and smarter (which we are). Hear me out! The research backs this up: In a twenty-year study of half a million heart attack patients, mortality rates were lower for women and men when the physician was a woman.41”
― Tessa Miller, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

“I grew increasingly unsure whether my life would ever become more than days and nights in a bathroom or bound to my bed.”
― Tessa Miller, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt

“(You know the chest-burster scene in Alien? That was written by a guy with Crohn’s. He died from complications of the disease.)”
― Tessa Miller, What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness—Lessons from a Body in Revolt