In doing the hard organizational work, he has taught friends a lesson: The grace and spirit with which we endure illness or dying is as much a measure of our character as the way we go about our most vigorous days.
In the preface to Bodies that Matter Butler reports a common response to her work: "What about the materiality of the body, Judy? … an effort … to recall me to a bodily life that could not be theorised away … for surely bodies live and eat; eat and sleep; feel pain and pleasure; endure illness and violence; and these facts … cannot be dismissed as mere construction" (1993 ix).
There are debts to pay, congested commutes to endure, illnesses, and exasperating relationships to manage.
In addition to suffering from many of the usual complaints of contemporary aging (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, congestive heart failure), he had endured illnesses unusual for any age and era: viral meningitis, West Nile encephalitis, an autoimmune disorder whose identity evaded the best doctors at the Cleveland Clinic.
When Jana hugged her and asked her why, Hadley said she felt awful that Jana would have to endure her illness along with Charlie's Parkinson's.
I do not know anyone who willingly chooses to develop and endure an illness that tears through life like an F-5 tornado, destroying everything and everyone in its path.
He used his natural sense of humor to help endure the illness and treatment, writing a humor-laden blog called "JK – Just Kidneying" that led to his winning a 2011 Robert Felter Memorial Award from the Renal Network for his "contribution to fellow patients and their families through service, outreach and education".
We note several gender differences in the social consequences of arthritis and the networks available to help patients endure their illness.
Many 19th-century composers endured poverty, illness and artistic struggle, their achievements fully recognized only posthumously.
Blake had endured injuries, illness and family tragedy to become the feel-good story of the 2005 Open.
During the course of their correspondence, Auchincloss marries Adele, an industrial designer, and, in 1990, endures her illness from multiple myeloma.
