Mary Ann Mobley Quotations

I testified in front of a Congressional subcommittee when we were searching for additional money for research. I was a bit apprehensive.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

I just don't believe in surgery unless there are no other alternatives. I think that sometimes it is so easy to say, Let's operate.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.