Lacie

“Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter.”
― Richard M. Cohen, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

“You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?”
― Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street

“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“My advice to myself is simple. Run with MS, not away from it. That race from existing illness cannot be won. See the truth. We move forward with grace when the wind is at our backs.”
― Richard M. Cohen, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir