Checks Quote by John Green

“Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. Then, if it likes you, it takes the rest.”

— John Green

Youre a walking tumor. Actually, its a big deal when you spot a tumor.

— Jeff Ross

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days…

— Don Baylor

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you…

— Abraham Verghese

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it…

— John Prine

I've crippled more people than polio.

— The Undertaker

“Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.”

— Jonathan Lethem

I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody…

— Lauryn Hill

Looking back, I call the first month after my diagnosis 'the cancer bubble' because I wasn't showing obvious signs of my disease. I looked…

— Suleika Jaouad

The doctors misdiagnosed me at first - they told me I had a pinched nerve. But my situation was getting worse. The tumor was…

— Daniel Jacobs

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup…

— Joe Eszterhas

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

— Socrates