Addison's Disease Quotes

I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength.

When Hamilton, debilitated from illness, rejoined his comrades at Valley Forge in January 1778, he must have shuddered at the mud and log huts and the slovenly state of the men who shivered around the campfires. There was a dearth of gunpowder, tents, uniforms, and blankets. Hideous sights abounded: snow stained with blood from bare, bruised feet; the carcasses of hundreds of decomposing horses; troops gaunt from smallpox, typhus, and scurvy. Washington’s staff was not exempt from the misery and had to bolt down cornmeal mush for breakfast. “For some days past there has been little less than a famine in the camp,” Washington said in mid-February. Before winter’s end, some 2,500 men, almost a quarter of the army, perished from disease, famine, or the cold. 1 To endure such suffering required stoicism reminiscent of the ancient Romans, so Washington had his favorite play, Addison’s Cato, the story of a self-sacrificing Roman statesman, staged at Valley Forge to buck up his weary men. That

That first week after the crisis that led to my diagnosis, I had the chance to surround myself with family and friends, and to enjoy contact at a deeper emotional level than ever before. Sharing that closeness was almost worth almost-dying for.

It still amazes me how my mental attitude, my outlook, my plans, the energy I put into something, affects MY Addison’s disease. Or the other way round – how Addison’s affects everything else.

Addison’s disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a