I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.
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Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.
Feeling sick, sad? Call on the Great Physician. You don't need an appointment; He will see you right away!
People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get to what they truly feel. That's what good literature is all about-- what Austen did better than anyone.
I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.
Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in.
When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
Once the body has atrophied, you will become vulnerable to many conditions.
Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.
President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.
There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.
NASA has decades of experience in studying the effects of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and their experiments show that continuous habitation of an alien environment in Space results in sickness in less than a year in astronauts and a similar environment on Earth produces ill health in humans in just two years.